Install on Ubuntu
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About the AbiSource Packages for Ubuntu
Developer Ryan Pavlik maintains Ubuntu packages of AbiWord in a Personal Package Archive. To access them, add the appropriate source below to your repositories, refresh your packages, then install "abiword" and optionally any abiword-plugin-* packages that add a feature that you want.
Once you've run this process once, AbiWord updates will automatically arrive when available, along with your normal Ubuntu updates.
You can find details about the packages currently available at the AbiWord PPA information page on Launchpad.
Command Line Instructions
To most easily install AbiWord from this system, you can use this series of commands. They add the AbiWord repository to your system, add the signing key matching those packages, updates your package lists, and installs the core AbiWord package.
You will be prompted for your password, type it in: note that you will see nothing when typing, this is normal.
Note that if you are not using Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) you will need to edit the first command according to the line for your distribution.
echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/abiword-stable/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main" > sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/abiword-stable.list sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 2382D57E sudo aptitude update sudo aptitude install abiword
Adding the source to your repositories and installing AbiWord
- Choose "Synaptic Package Manager" from the Administration menu
- Select Settings > Repositories
- Click the Add button on the "Third-Party Software" tab
- Copy the line that starts with "deb" for your version of Ubuntu (see below) and press the Add Source button
- Press Close and read the message about changed repositories
- Press Close again
- Press the Reload button on the Synaptic toolbar
- If you already had AbiWord installed, click "Mark All Upgrades", otherwise:
- After the package lists are refreshed and downloaded, find "abiword" in the list of packages, and mark for installation "abiword" as well as any plugin packs you would like (grammar, equations, and goffice are available).
- In either case, read the message about not authenticated packages and press the Mark button
- Press the Apply button on the synaptic toolbar to update/install your packages
Troubleshooting
If you get an error about missing files that says you need to re-install AbiWord, go back into Synaptic, search for abiword, and choose to remove all AbiWord-related packages. Click Apply, then install again (starting at the "After the package lists..." step above). This bug is due to an issue with the way Ubuntu is handling the new packages.
Supported (Released) Distributions
- Note! These URLs were updated 24 April 2009 to match changes made in the Launchpad PPA system. If you installed a version of AbiWord from here earlier, please ensure you have updated these lines.
- Jaunty (9.04):
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/abiword-stable/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
- Intrepid (8.10):
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/abiword-stable/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
- Hardy (8.04 LTS):
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/abiword-stable/ppa/ubuntu hardy main
- Gutsy (7.10):
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/abiword-stable/ppa/ubuntu gutsy main
- Feisty (7.04):
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/abiword-stable/ppa/ubuntu feisty main
- Edgy (6.10):
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/abiword-stable/ppa/ubuntu edgy main
- Dapper (6.06 LTS):
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/abiword-stable/ppa/ubuntu dapper main
References
Launchpad bug for AbiWord 2.6 upload
History: Ubuntu Linux and AbiSource Relation
At this time, the latest version available directly from Ubuntu is an Ubuntu-modified 2.4.6 in Hardy (the long term support version), 2.6.4 in Intrepid and 2.6.6 in Jaunty. They rejected the AbiWord 2.6.x packages prepared for Hardy (see references below), so if you want to use a recent version (newer than 1.5 years old) of AbiWord on any released version of Ubuntu, you'll need to follow these steps.
If you are using Jaunty, a 2.6.4 package was uploaded. If you are using Intrepid, a 2.6.4 package was uploaded, based on the one proposed for Hardy. Improvements have been made since then (by Ryan and Josh K), so you'll want to follow these steps as well, to keep up to date. Or, if you're in a position of power with Ubuntu, take these packages! They're based on the new Debian ones, which were in turn, based on the proposed 2.6.3 ones as modified and uploaded by a Debian developer who hangs out with us upstream.
