Re: Word Perfect on SuSE 9.1

Hi,

We occasionally have releases for SuSE (see James's e-mail).

It should be possible to build from source. I would recommend trying
out the almost-released AbiWord 2.2 which is probably just as stable as
2.0.

Get the source for the plugins from the same place as the source for
AbiWord and build together. To simplify matters you can specify the WP
plugin using

./configure --without-all --with-wordperfect

There is a document somewhere explaining how to build AbiWord, probably
abi/docs/BUILD.txt in the source, but I don't know about instructions
specifically for SuSE.

Good luck, and don't be afraid to ask for help.

Regards, Frank

On 15 Nov 2004, at 22:49, Curtis Larsen wrote:
> I work for a University that uses a Novell Network and we have been
> using SuSE 9.1 Pro since Novell bought it in June or July. We have
> hundreds of users that use Word Perfect on Windows. This is the one
> thing that is keeping us from switching many of them over to Linux.
>
> Does anyone know if there is a Word Perfect plugin rpm that works on
> SuSE 9.1 Pro. How long does Abiword usually take to release rpms for
> newer distributions? Is SuSE a supported distribution or are they
> only supporting Fedora Core and Mandrake?
>
> How about compiling from source? Has anyone had luck compiling the
> plugin for SuSE 9.1 from source? Is there any documentation floating
> around about that?

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Received on Tue Nov 16 01:17:15 2004