Debian Woody and 1.99.3

From: Jack Dodds (brmdamon@aci.on.ca)
Date: Sun Aug 10 2003 - 07:25:56 EDT

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    I have a Debian Stable ("Woody") Linux distribution installed on a P4
    computer. I am using K, not Gnome.

    Woody includes Abiword 1.0.2. I am trying to upgrade to 1.99.3 using
    the binary .rpm packages on SourceForge. I have converted the .rpm
    packages to .deb format using "alien". The specific packages are

    Abiword-clipart-1.99.3-1.i386.rpm
    Abiword-embeddable-1.99.3-1.i386.rpm
    Abiword-gtk-1.99.3-1.i386.rpm
    Abiword-plugins-impexp-1.99.3-1.i386.rpm
    Abiword-plugins-tools-1.99.3-1.i386.rpm

    I do a dpkg -i for each of these. For one of the packages (forgot to
    note which one) I have to specify --force-overwrite because two files
    ttftool and ttfadmin.sh are also part of the 1.0.2 version. With this
    detail taken care of, the install seems to be ok - no error messages.

    When I execute Abiword-2.0, nothing happens.

    What am I doing wrong? More generally, is there any hope of upgrading
    my Woody installation to use 1.99.3?

    I also tried doing an "apt-get remove" to delete the 1.0.2 version
    before installing the 1.99.3 version. In that case, there are missing
    llibraries when I try to execute. I am guessing (?????) that apt-get
    removes some libraries, and that dpkg is not aware that those libraries
    are needed because the .deb files were generated by alien; presumably
    the Debian package dependencies are not in the .rpm file.

    I considered upgrading to Debian Testing, then found that that Abiword
    is not listed as a package in Testing.

    Any advice would gratefully received by this Linux newcomer.

    Jack Dodds

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