I just spent an hour wasted doing this so I will pass along what I
learned.
To install abiword:
1. go to the home page for abiword and get their gtk version.
2. rpm -Uhv on the rpm file as root.
3. /usr/sbin/chkfontpath -a /usr/share/Abisuite/fonts
4. restart the xserver.
Nothing else works. The two problem I found were:
1. When you try to install abiword from the RedHat CD, it installs the gnome version,
tough sledding if you didn't install gnome when you installed RedHat.
2. The downloaded version from the abiword home page doesn't install the
fonts for you.
To fix problem #2:
If you try to install the fonts by hand, you have to navigate the xfs
configuration file. (I guess die hards might just change XF86Config themselves.)
There are TWO configuration files for xfs, one accessed it seems by
xfs and the other accessed by chkfontpath. How they are synchronized I
didn't bother to find out but it looks like restarting the X server, not
xfs, is the key to getting this to work.
BTW, I tried the tar version which works "anywhere" on my caldera 2.4 box.
It installed without any font issues.
Joel
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