Subject: Re: Installing AbiWord 0.9.4
From: Alan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Tue Oct 30 2001 - 08:35:57 CST
Happy House wrote:
>
> hi all,
>
> I have Redhat 7.1 and i recently tried to install AbiWord 0.9.4 for
> gnome, when I tried to install the RPM for Redhat 7.1 I got a dependency
> problem and... something like "libsgal" and "gal" i tried to install
> gal from the Redhat 7.1 disk, but I was told it was already installed
> (gal i mean). Maybe my gal isn't up to date? Where can I find thig
> "gal" ? And what does it do? please help anyone? Thank you!
abiword for redhat is acting a bit antsy about having the exact version
of libgal
having a newer version should work but abiword wants an older version
try looking through the developer list archives here and you should be
able to turn up an answer from the last few weeks.
For best results use Ximian Redcarpet
cut & paste from a old mail i still have in my mailbox:
> I ended up with ximian everything except abiword itself. For abiword, I
> used the Redhat 7.1 version not marked as ximian because the ximian version
> wanted libgal.so.13 even though I had 14 installed. Once I put the fots dir
> into the config file using chkfontpath, abiword started without complaint.
> I haven't yet used the new version since I installed it yesterday, so
> I don't know whether yet another problem exists. I just hope that Redhat
> 7.1 version cooperates with the Redhat 7.2/ximian version libraries. Thanks
> for your help.
>
> --Larry
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