Subject: Re: This Worked!
From: Colin Mattoon (cjm2@lewiston.com)
Date: Mon May 15 2000 - 20:29:29 CDT
Hi:
I just downloaded the new tar.gz version and had the same problem with
fonts -- setting the permissions to 644 as detailed below solved my
problem. Thanks.
Colin Mattoon
On Mon, 15 May 2000, Matthew Lybanon wrote:
> Posting for the benefit of other users:
> This solved the problem. I didn't do anything to the icons directory and haven't
> seen any problems yet. Thanks, Bob.
>
>
> "Robert G. Snyder" wrote:
>
> > Matthew Lybanon wrote:
> > >
> > > I installed abisuite-0.7.9-Linux_i386_static.tar.gz (after uncompressing and
> > > "untarring") on an Intel machine running Mandrake Linux. The installation
> > > appeared successful, and the program goes into execution, but it fails
> > > immediately. When it fails it gives the message:
> > >
> > > "AbiWord could not find any local font files in its font path. <More about
> > > not invoking AbiWord directly; I am using the wrapper shell script. ...>
> > >
> > > The current font path contains the following directories:
> > >
> > > [/usr/local/AbiSuite/fonts]
> > >
> > > Please visit http://www.abisource.com/for more information."
> > >
> > > The directory /usr/local/AbiSuite/fonts does contain a large number of files,
> > > but either they are the wrong files or the message is trying to tell me
> > > something else. If the abisource website has any more information on this
> > > topic, I was unable to find it. I would appreciate any suggestions.
> >
> > I had a similar problem with the same binary. I got, I think, a different error
> > message but maybe the same thing is causing your problem.
> >
> > The installation process sets the font files' permissions as readable only by
> > root and group. No user read permissions are set. Try (as root of course):
> >
> > chmod 644 /usr/local/AbiSuite/fonts/*
> >
> > The files in the 'icons' directory are set the same way so maybe they need the
> > same treatment although I had no problems after changing only the font files'
> > permissions.
> >
> > Bob Snyder
>
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