On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 15:56 -0400, Beartooth wrote:
>
> That page offers something new to me, called an "autopackage" -- which
> seems to be independent of distro, if I read the instructions aright, and
> to have a GUI (both of which I like) -- but also to say that I have to
> uninstall the old one.
>
> I'm reluctant to do that even on my machine, where I rarely use any word
> processor (though AbiWord is it when I do); I'm more than reluctant to do
> so on my user's machine, where there's half a novel to lose.
>
> Can I no longer just download an rpm and do rpm -Uvh?? (I'm running Fedora
> Core 4)
>
No disrespect meant to the AbiWord team, but I think autopackage is a
bad idea.
At any rate, I highly suspect an FC4 package will turn up very quickly
in Extras.
The maintainer is an AbiWord developer (at least I think he is).
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