On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 11:20, Bernard Lambey wrote: > Hi, > > In spite of F-J and Peter C's judicious advices , I pass a complete > day on the problem. > It was impossible to install AbiWord-1.1.0-2.tar.bz2 on my Mdk-9.0 > Of course, the reason is I am null, and not Mdk is not conform to > uses, and if you have not the AW's-files prepared by them, you are > certain to loose a week to try all that you know, without effects. > Therefore, I returned to my W-1.0.3=Mdk-RPMs installed without any > problem on my recent Mdk-8.2.
I'm with you Bernard...and you've done better than I did, I couldn't get abi stable on Mandrake 8.2. I finally gave up and went with OpenOffice.org which works. This is an example of where Linux applications aren't quite ready for prime time...all this playing around with cryptically-named libraries that are never where the docs say they should be, installation programs that insist you don't have a library when the blasted thing is RIGHT THERE in /usr/lib...sorry for the venting but I really wanted to use abi and it's been a big disappointment to have to give up. I don't have time to mess around for days finding libraries and putting them here and there to try to get it to work. If it doesn't work right out of the install then it's broken and I'm not going to use it. -- |\____/\____/| 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.
