After finally getting 1.0.3 to run on Mandrake 8.2 - OK but with scrambled spellcheck - I upgraded to Mandrake 9.0 and Gtk2 in the hopes of getting better results with many things including the developer branch of abiword, which sounded rather good. I managed to install 1.1.3 without having to cheat or force but found all sorts of problems:
1 the configure told me that wv would not provide wmf to png facility (I compiled 1.0.3 with libwmf and all went well) 2 It said jpeg support was compiled in but Abi will not display jpegs 3 It would not compile with gnome, saying it needed gal-2.0, which despite the most valiant efforts of Mr Google does not appear to exist anywhere on the planet! 4 It needed all sorts of extra stuff for Xft but I can probably sort that out later when I am not so tired with it all. Upgrading to Mandrake 9 has not been a fun experience! 5 Files that 1.0.3 used to display perfectly are all scrambled up - .abw and .doc. Could it be the tables business? Lines disappear off the bottom of pages but do not show on the next page, and .doc files do not lay out as cleanly as they used to. I tried to go for 1.0.4 thinking that this might be more stable but found what appears to be an insoluble dependency - libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3). I tried 1.2.99 and found a similar problem with gtk2 causing conflicts (what is the difference between Gtk2 and Gtk-2.0?) 1.3.99 had both these problems! Can anyone help me to get a working Abiword on Mandrake 9.0? -- John Mellor Linux - Free in every way ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
