Re: Abiword with Linspire

David Gonterman wrote:
> Ryan Pavlik wrote:
>> You need to install the -dev packages to compile from scratch, as you
>> appear to be attempting. I would recommend rather removing your
>> current version of AbiWord and installing the AutoPackage from
>> www.abisource.com if you can (if you are on x86), since it takes care
>> of all dependency and configuration problems for you. If you really
>> want to compile yourself, though, the -dev packages (should be in
>> apt-get or Synaptic, if not in CNR) will be needed. At least on
>> Debian, a "sudo apt-get build-dep abiword-gnome" (or just plain
>> abiword) should get everything you need to compile.
>>
>> Hope this helps!
>>
>> Ryan
>>
> That's what I am doing. I've even uninstalled the previous verison of
> Abiword, downloaded the autopackage, and was running that when I have
> the aforementioned error message in the Checking window. I'm not
> quite ready to do any self-compiling. ^-^
>
> When I first ran it, it opened a command prompt screen (Konsole) that
> installed something that the Autopackage needed to run with. Could
> that be the problem?
>
Shouldn't be - that is normal autopackage behavior. It could be that
you need a newer version of Enchant than provided by Linspire, you could
try searching for an Enchant autopackage. (I looked briefly, but not
conclusively)

Good luck! Perhaps our Mr. Autopackage will comment.

Ryan

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