Bear Tooth wrote:
>
> On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, J.M. Maurer wrote:
>
>> AbiWord v2.2.8 Released
>>
>> This release has seen a lot of bugfixes, polish, and cleanups as we
>> are nearing the end of the 2.2 release cycle. We are working hard
>> towards AbiWord v2.4, which is shaping up nicely.
>
> [...]
>
>> All users are advised to upgrade to this new release. Windows users
>> are advised to uninstall older versions first, and to make sure there
>> are no files left behind[1].
>
>
> I got odd results under Fedora Core linux. Under FC1, I simply
> downloaded the rpm, ran rpm -Uvh, and basta! : that did it.
>
> Under FC3 on another machine, I did the same, and got dependency
> failures, calling for enchant and libenchant.
>
> So I got those from rpmfind, and tried to install them. Neither
> would install without the other. So I tried both at once.
>
> But I still got a failure: one (I disremember which) requires I
> think 1.2.2 of the other; what I have is 1.2.5, or more likely 1.5.2.
>
> So I haven't dared try AbiWord itself again. The FC3 machine is my
> wife's desktop, and she's working hard on writing a book, in AbiWord.
>
> This situation reminds me far too much of the dependency hell that
> finally forced me to give up Galeon entirely, even though that was my
> favorite browser. It reached a point where across-the-board updates
> would fail, because "yum update" couldn't get past the conflict.
>
> Please say we're not going that way! Pretty please.
>
Don't jump to conclusions! Enchant has been used for quite a while, as
it provides an interface to whatever spell checkers are already on your
system (Usually Aspell, but it supports other checkers as well) so you
don't have to duplicated your efforts. The AbiSource download page
includes the links to the appropriate dependency RPM's, hosted by us:
just use those!
You will probably want to remove the ones you got from RPMFind, since I
have no idea what they are, if they will conflict, or if they will not
cause problems. Considering they aren't working, they aren't doing much
good anyway.
Hope this helps!
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