Getting the source code

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If you are just starting out with AbiWord you will need to get the latest development version of the source code with this command.

 svn co http://svn.abisource.com/abiword/trunk abiword

Once you have a commit access to AbiWord you use subversion to get the main tree and plugins with this command (where "<username>" is you svn access name):

 svn co svn+ssh://<username>@svn.abisource.com/svnroot/abiword/trunk abiword

If you need to get the 2.8 branch do:

 svn co svn+ssh://<username>@svn.abisource.com/svnroot/abiword/branches/ABI-2-8-0-STABLE/ abiword-2.8
  

If you need to get the 2.6 branch do:

 svn co svn+ssh://<username>@svn.abisource.com/svnroot/abiword/branches/ABI-2-6-0-STABLE/ abiword-2.6   
 svn co svn+ssh://<username>@svn.abisource.com/svnroot/abiword-plugins/branches/ABI-2-6-0-STABLE/ abiword-plugins-2.6 

After the 2.6 branch the plugins have been integrated into the main build system.

For Fedora developers you need a few extra packages on top of the Workstation installation. First:

 dnf update
 dnf install dnf-plugins-core

Then install the build dependencies for abiword. There are a lot of these! However they're rolled up in the following dnf command:

 dnf builddep abiword

You also need the following *-devel packages:

 dnf install libabiword-devel

You also need the "autoconf-archive" package to build the "configure" script

 dnf install autoconf-archive

Now you can build the configure script with:

 NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh && ./configure

Now you can use the "configure" script to build abiword with as many plugins as you want