Re: problem installing on Mandrake 9.0

From: Dom Lachowicz (domlachowicz@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Dec 13 2002 - 17:10:03 EST

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    > In other words Bernard, the answer is Yes. If you
    > have Mandrake, you
    > either have to hunt for an unsupported compilation
    > (thank you Hal Curtis
    > for the pointer) or use OpenOffice.org (my
    > solution). In the meantime
    > we Mandrake users just have to wait. I don't know
    > how to make a
    > Mandrake binary or I'd be happy to do it. I am not
    > a C programmer, I'm
    > a perl hacker.

    Actually, all you need to know how to use is rpm if
    you want to be technical. There's no special version
    of the sources needed to run on Mandrake. Just grab
    the spec file out of the RedHat RPMs, a recent AbiWord
    tarball, and then:

    rpmbuild -bb <tarball>
    or
    rpm -bb <tarball>

    Depending on your version of RPM (4.x vs. 3.x). Yes,
    it really is that simple. When you're done, email this
    list or me personally with a link to your RPM and
    we'll gladly upload it to SourceForge.net along with
    the rest of our binaries.

    Regards,
    Dom

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