Building AbiWord from Source on Ubuntu

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Revision as of 11:59, 11 March 2012

This is tested on Ubuntu 11.10/64 bit.

First checkout the source from the trunk.

If you are a committer,

svn+ssh://<username>@svn.abisource.com/svnroot/abiword/trunk

For others,

svn co http://svn.abisource.com/abiword/trunk abiword

Change to the abiword directory, and execute the below commands.

sudo apt-get build-dep abiword
sudo apt-get install gtk+-3.0
sudo apt-get install librdf0-dev
sudo apt-get install valgrind

sh autogen.sh
make

sudo make install

cd /lib

Now from the lib directory,

sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libabiword-2.9.so

Now you should be able to run abiword by typing abiword in the terminal.