Re: Ubuntu 12.04

Just a long-shot here, but if you want to run Abiword while you're
sorting out your Debian problems you can run a Windows version on Ubuntu
through Wine. (Google "abiword wine").

Leon Stedman wrote:
>
> Thanks Richard
>
> BUT the abisource page tells me to go to a Ubuntu page, which does not
> lead me to a binary down-loadable package. After three days of
> attempting to find such I e-mailed the list for help.
>
> I downloaded the source code for 2.8.6 I had hoped to avoid doing so
> because I will need to download many "dev" packets.
>
> It does not help that I am not familiar with the Debian system having
> used Redhead.
>
> The last time I tried to compile Abiword I could not find a required
> packet!
>
> I have downloaded source code for 2.8.6. and satisfied cofigure's
> requirements.
> "make" crashes with:
> g++: error: unrecognised option --no-undefined
>
> Leon Stedman.
>
> On Fri, 13 Sep 2013, Richard L. Dery wrote:
>
>>
>> How on earth do I remove this version and replace it with a 2.8 version
>> which will work. Or even how do I make the 2.9.2 version work.
>>
>> -----
>>
>> Version 2.9.4 has been released. The developers are recommending this
>> newer version, as it contains a lot of bug fixes. It can be downloaded
>> and installed using a source tarball from www.abisource.com.
>>
>> You may also be able to download version 2.8.6 and try to install that.
>> I'm saying try because 2.8.6 may require dependencies that your system
>> may have updated, and so are no longer compatible with 2.8.6.
>>
>> You'll probably need to configure your applications menu to point at the
>> new version.
>>
>> Strangeness: When I upgraded to 2.9.4, clicking on Help -> About AbiWord
>> reported it as version 2.9.2.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Received on Fri Sep 13 19:16:12 2013