From: Alan Horkan (horkana@maths.tcd.ie)
Date: Sun Aug 10 2003 - 12:48:47 EDT
> Any advice would gratefully received by this Linux newcomer.
Debain is not recommended for Linux Newcomers.
It is a fine distributions with good solid technolgy but it does not even
pretend to make things easy for beginners. There are however some Debina
based distributions that do make an effort to help beginners, just
dont say I did not warn you.
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On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Jack Dodds wrote:
> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 07:25:56 -0400
> From: Jack Dodds <brmdamon@aci.on.ca>
> To: abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: Debian Woody and 1.99.3
>
> I have a Debian Stable ("Woody") Linux distribution installed on a P4
> computer. I am using K, not Gnome.
Using KDE should not be a problem.
> Woody includes Abiword 1.0.2. I am trying to upgrade to 1.99.3 using
> the binary .rpm packages on SourceForge. I have converted the .rpm
> packages to .deb format using "alien". The specific packages are
Building from source is not a terrible idea. Time consuming, but I have
been able to do it without too much difficulty and if you are technically
inclined it is probably a better habit than using alien.
> I considered upgrading to Debian Testing, then found that that Abiword
> is not listed as a package in Testing.
You can mix and match from different versions of Debian, I forget how
exactly, more importantly how to do so selectively for only a few special
packages.
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/02/Mar/0418.html
Debian Maintainer for Abiword Masayuki Hatta does a good job of keeping
Abiword packages up to date he really does.
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages2.pl?keywords=abiword&searchon=names&version=all&release=all
abiword 1.99.2+cvs.2003.07.10-1
is listed but there may be a newer version available, if there is not I am
sure there will be soon. Using the slightly older Debian packages seem
like a significatnly easier option.
Rather than to continue to make half assed suggestions I will instead stop
here and send mhatta a Carbon Copy of this message, as he is the one who
best knows the answers.
Sincerley
Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
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