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Sir/Ma'am,

A pleasant day (or night) to you!

I am new to linux (redhat 8) and my impression is that it is not ready for
an ordinary user. I have used windows for quite a while and I'm
comfortable in installing and configuring applications to my liking.

The first problem I encountered is in the installation of downloaded
applications; I get dependency error after dependency error - a wrong
version of the library was found; I then downloaded the right version and
during istallation of that file it will yet find a wrong version of
another file (library) - then start the same process again...

I downloaded a version of abiword (v 2.4) ang that's what I experienced...

Is it possible to make another version of the package which includes all
the files (libraries) it is going to use so that if the the files in the
system is deficient then it will use what's in the package to be installed
in a different directory, most probably in the same directory of the
application - so that it will not mess-up what current applications are
using, so the installation would proceed smoothly...

I encountered one application that required an updated version of "glibc",
then later on, I downloaded another one that requires the lower version; I
have some programming experience but mainly on cobol and xbase, I don't
have the skill to hack programs like this - at least not yet...

The drawback of this is that the package will be a lot bigger, but the
installation will be easier since all the file versions required by the
application will be all there...

Thank you very much and more power AbiWord!

Avelino P. Arabit
Philippines

        
                
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Received on Sun Oct 9 08:22:16 2005