Subject: Re: installation problems
From: Dan Stromberg (strombrg@nis.acs.uci.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 17 2001 - 19:09:56 CDT
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 06:22:53PM +0100, F J Franklin wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Lo'oRiS il Kabukimono wrote:
> > > > i have RH7.1, and trying to install abiword-gnome-0.9.2
> > > > it complained that he needed gal>0.8...
>
> It's probably not worth trying to get hold of RedHat.
>
> libgal is part of the GNOME suite and you can probably get 0.9 (or later
> but I don't know how safe later versions are) from ftp://ftp.gnome.org/
> but that may entail downloading & building several other packages...
>
> The other way to get it is to update your GNOME using Ximian's
> distribution.
It's been a while, but IIRC:
1) Using the ximian update didn't give me a recent enough libgal for
abiword-gnome.
2) Using the gtk version instead of the gnome version worked fine for
me. I don't know if I'm missing any actual features because of this,
but I haven't felt any perceptible lack.
-- Dan Stromberg UCI/NACS/DCS
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