You might have run into the infamous "incompatible libpng bug" on Mandrake. Abi runs fine on Mandrake. Those RPMs you downloaded were built on RedHat against a different libpng. That could explain *everything*.
Dom On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 17:18, Rob Woodard wrote: > Additionally, I was just now able to insert these files into a document > with OpenOffice. I'm sure the problem is one with how I installed > abiword; but there is no way for me to know what it might be. I > installed the abiword rpm's I downloaded from the web site; I remember I > had to install with -nodeps because it kept complaining that I didn't > have all the dependencies, even after I went through the dependencies > one by one and verified they were there. > > Maybe abiword just isn't compatible with Mandrake? > > On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 13:08, Rob Woodard wrote: > > I have installed abiword 1.0.3 on Mandrake 8.2. It seems to be working, > > however I can't seem to import images. Whenever I try to insert an > > image into a document, I get an error message: > > > > Error importing file /home/rwoodard/floater.bmp. > > > > That's all it says. I can't find any information on *why* it can't > > import the file. The image is a screen shot I captured using the GIMP; > > I tried installing the GIMP plugin but that didn't help. The image > > opens fine using the GIMP so don't think there's anything wrong with the > > file. > > > > Any hints? > > > -- > |\____/\____/| Rob Woodard > | | Security Analyst > | Global | Global DataGuard, Inc. > | DataGuard | 972-980-1444 > \ Inc. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > \ / > \________/ > > ----------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word > unsubscribe in the message body. ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
