Re: dates ver 2.9.2

On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 6:03 AM, Richard L. Dery
<dickdery@centurylink.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> I've decided to install this ver 2.9.4 but i've only done a compile
>> once before. What i can't find is the dependencies for an
>> installation. The app i compiled before was Ted which seemed to be
>> set up so that one installed the dependencies. I think i just typed
>> 'make package' and then 'make install'. Would be grateful for some
>> guidance before i hash things up.
>>
>
> When trying to compile AbiWord from source, running the ./config script
> will fail, and at the same time inform you what the needed dependencies are.
> The dependencies are header files, contained in various -dev packages. So
> when the config script reports (for example) "header files for libpng not
> found," use your package manager to search for libpng and then look for a
> libpng package with a -dev on the end.
>
> You may have to do this more than once, to get all the necessary header
> files.
>
> When the appropriate -dev packages are installed you should then run
>
> ./config --help | less
>
> to see what extra features you can install in AbiWord. Adding these extra
> features will require you to install additional packages.

Many thanks for the help... bit beyond me at present. I need to do the
linux "must do" - do a Linux From Scratch install and learn from the
'ground up'. So I'll have to wait until the new stable version is
released. The problem I gather is that debian (and derivatives) no
longer have a dependency for ver 2.8.6 hence why the development ver
2.9.2 had to be included.

I hope this doesn't seem like a daft question. Why can't the
dependency files be included in the Abiword package? It seems Times
font is and I was wondering why it can't be done.

james
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Received on Thu Sep 12 23:41:56 2013