Subject: Re: Installing AbiWord 0.9.4
From: Alan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Tue Oct 30 2001 - 11:07:27 CST
Lan Barnes wrote:
>
> Larry Reznick wrote:
> >
> > Happy House wrote:
> >
>
> -snip of Larry's and Happy House's analysis of Abiword install problems on
> RH 7.x-
My mantra of the month: Abiword is run _totally_ by _volunteers.
your getting my advice for free so if im wrong, im wrong and im just
trying to help you to help yourself and make sure that posts dont get
ignored.
the developer who put together the RPM has said he will probably drop
back to a vanilla RedHat 7.2 to make and test the next one. You could
always offer to help.
> Just an aside as a RH user who has been frustrated by the latest Abiword.
> As devoted as I am to Abiword, I am a bit put off by the nest of
> dependencies that the latest install is mired in. It becomes a scavenger
> hunt, and as others have noted, things break while one tries to fix this
> one app.
Linux sucks, Micrsoft rulz *cough* i mean sucks more.
I think the installer should be huge and satisfy virtaully every
dependancy but most people disagree i think ive probably just got a
hangover from before using Linux.
> I understand that Linux is not Abiword's only platform, and that RH !=
> Linux, but it seems to me that this is still an important enough platform
> that we could expect better integration.
>
> BTW, I'm not a fan of Ximian (if I wanted the Windoze look-n-feel, I'd get
> Windows), so I'm a bit put off by the "install Ximian and all your problems
> will go away" directive. Nevertheless, I did (install Ximian) on one box,
im not forcing you to use Ximian its only a suggestion, but i think its
daft to say that Ximian looks like Windows considering how ridiculously
customisable Linux is it should only be like that if you choose it.
> and it didn't (solve any Abiword problems).
Frankly i dont know shit about Linux, although i briefly tested Abiword
on Wine, its works at least partially only gave it a few minutes, if ive
time i may put together a more detailed report later.
> I certainly hope that by 1.0 you'll have a more forgiving and robust
> installation procedure. I can't dedicate my machines -- or my time -- to
> getting Abiword just right. Pity -- it's a cool WP.
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