Janne W <not@here.com> wrote:
: I tryed to install Abiword, but it doesnt work sigh
: Are there any plans to make it into a package that installs from the package
: installer?
: I really cant get this right, even after reading all the postings in
: different groups.
: (thanks Thomas, you really tryed, but it didn’t work for me)
Oh such are the woes of the world …
So let me just walk through the steps:
-
Downloaded the repository tar.gz file
http://staff.qnx.com/~thomasf/abiword/ → AbiWord link
or directly
http://staff.qnx.com/~thomasf/abiword/abiword-rep.tgz
-
Un-tar the repository tar into a convenient location
% tar -zxvf abiword-rep.tgz
or
% gunzip abiword-rep.tgz; tar -xvf abiword-rep.tar
This will create a mini repository for abiword itself
since there wasn’t a way to just point the pkg-installer
at a single qpm (tar.gz) file. You should now have a
directory called ‘repository’ where-ever you unpacked
this to.
- Start the package installer
% pkg-installer
Add the repository location that you just added as a
new repository in the pkg-installer
File → Add Repository
Fill in the location (and a name if you feel so inclined):
file:///path/to/unpacked/repository
Click Done
-
You should now see this new repository show up in your
listing of repositories. Double click to enter this
new repository.
-
If all goes well you should be able to select
Public Software → Editors → AbiSuite
And press install to have it whirr a little, install
the software and BOOM! You now have AbiWord.
If you could let me know where things went wrong for
you then I’d be better able to help.
Misc AbiWord Caveats:
There is a bug with the launcher item, for a reason
I have not yet discerned it won’t launch the shell
script (well ksh to run the shell script) from the
Launch menu. That will be fixed for the next
iteration I hope (my bad). Launching AbiWord from
the command line works fine (AbiWord is just a
shell script that launches AbiWord_s with the
right environment).
There is a bug with the photon font server where
certain fonts don’t map properly … should be
fixed in the next patch.
There is another bug with local font metrics and
the calls I’m using to extent text that occasionally
make it slow as molasses. This is being investigated
and will hopefully also be fixed soon.
There will be another release of the Photon version
nearing the end of this month. New features include
native cut & paste, better focus handling, better
document import, tab and list dialogs (I hope!).
I appreciate any comments you have either directly or
through Bugzilla @ www.abiword.com
Thomas