Re: [pavlik to poogimmal]

--- Alan Horkan <horkana@maths.tcd.ie> wrote:

>Ah right this is clearer. To reiterate what Ryan is
>saying:

>You dont need admin priviledges to install Abiword
>but if you do not install as admin then abiword will
>only be available
>for
>one user.

>If you want abiword to be available for all users
then >you must be the
>administrator.
>

Oh, if that's all he meant, then I have no objection
whatever. That's not what I took him to mean, but I
certainly hope you are right.

[and in another post alan horkan wrote]
>
> On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, r coyne wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:57:35 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: r coyne <duckingsnofair@yahoo.com>
> > To: abiword-user@abisource.com
> > Subject: Re: [pavlik to poogimmal]
> >
> >
> > Why does one need to install from an administrator
> > account?
>
> You shouldn't, at least you didn't need to with
> older versions of abiword
> but I dont know about the latest versions.
>
> > I can't imagine any reason why a word processor
> should need system- or
> > administrator-type privileges, and requiring them
> seems like terrible
> > design.
>
> There is no need to be rude.
>
> Ryan was trying to make a helpful suggestion.
>
> Your install is broken and you should try
> uninstalling and reinstalling as
> it might help.
>
> We are all unpaid volunteers and we do the best we
> can with limited
> resources. I'm sorry I dont have time to
> investigage your problem
> further. Please be patient and we will see if you
> we can figure out what
> might be going wrong. Please file a detailed bug
> report so we do not
> forget about your problem (see our bug tracker at
> http://bugzilla.abisource.com )
>
> - Alan
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I am not the original poster, the person whose system
was broken. I, too, was just trying to be helpful.
Ryan's remark startled me into responding, partly
because I too recalled that in some much earlier
version it was *not* necessary to be administrative to
install, and I was upset to hear (as I thought) that
this had changed for the worse.

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Received on Thu Aug 18 02:49:17 2005