[Fwd: Re: Word Perfect plugin SuSE 9.1 Pro]

I will reply as well in a few hours, but I have some connection
problems. If any other people on this list have some answers, feel free
to help out..

Marc

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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?

Thanks again

Curtis

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 02:53:20 +0100, J.M. Maurer
<j.m.maurer@student.utwente.nl> wrote:
> Op zo, 14-11-2004 te 17:42 -0700, schreef Curtis Larsen:
> > I can't seem to get the Word Perfect plugin to keep working on SuSE
> > 9.1 Pro. It works sometimes but not others. I have noticed that when
> > I add it to the list of plugins it shows up at first, but after
> > closing and opening again - it is gone. Then I find that it doesn't
> > open .wpd files even though it did at first.
>
> The plugin should load automatically. You should not need to add it. I
> guess that this is related to your use of rpms not specifically built
> for your system
>
> > I am running SuSE 9.1 Pro
> > I installed abiword 2.0.5
> > I installed 3 different rpms in order to get the plugin to show up -
> > they are listed below:
> >
> > libstdc++-3.4.26.fc3.i386.rpm
> > libwpd-0.7.1-1.1.i386.rpm
> > abiword-plugins-impexp-2.0.5-100.SuSE.90.ulb.1.i586.rpm
>
> This should be correct.
>
> > I installed the 9.0 import export rpm because I could not find one for
> > SuSE 9.1 Pro.
>
> This _might_ be the problem.
>
> James, are you watching this right now and if so, could you give us some
> insights here?
>
> > Has anyone used the Word Perfect plugin and had consistent success?
> > Does anyone know when a SuSE 9.1 Pro impexp plugin might be released?
>
> Well, I use it all the time, and a great number of users do. I've never
> heard of this problem before. Any SuSE user here with a clue?
>
> Bye!
> Marc
>
>
Received on Mon Nov 15 20:15:11 2004