ABIWord

[Mikenell]

I'm trying to download this from the abisource page so i can do my homework in linux but the link on the page is broken and has been for a while, are there any alternative mirrors for it?
Thanks
Mikenell

[Unruly]

Helix Code I think has it bundled with it... ermm... try freshmeat?

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Q: How many existentialists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: Two. One to screw it in and one to observe how the lightbulb itself symbolizes a single incandescent beacon of subjective reality in a netherworld of endless absurdity reaching out toward a maudlin cosmos of nothingness.

[Mikenell]

Freshmeat just gives links to the pages with broken links http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/frown.gif
Mikenell

[A_Lawn_GNOME]

google search it or go to rpmfind.net and look around there. If you can't use RPM's then you can at least find the homepage.

[Mikenell]

I have the homepage address thats where the borken link is. I'll try Google though.
Mikenell

[ColdPack]

Hey Mikenell!

I looked at the helixcode site for debian stuff and look what I found?
http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian/dists/woody/main/source/

The abiword tarball.
There you go!


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"What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them?"
---Marilyn Pittman

[Shad]

The rpm still works, and they are suppose to be releasing a new one soon.

Mandrake has an rpm for abiword in its mirrors. And it was in Helix.

[Mikenell]

Thanks ColdPack, I'm getting it now! Weird though, on the AbiWord site it said it was 2.8mb but this is 8mb! And there seemed to be a few tarballs for it. Is it modified specifically for Helix?

Shad: I can't use RPM's.
Thanks
Mikenell

[ColdPack]

Originally posted by Mikenell:
Thanks ColdPack, I'm getting it now! Weird though, on the AbiWord site it said it was 2.8mb but this is 8mb! And there seemed to be a few tarballs for it. Is it modified specifically for Helix?

Shad: I can't use RPM's.
Thanks
Mikenell

I have no idea. I just thought I'd poke around and there she was. Now I'm not sure if that's going to have other dependencies but, if so, you may just find them on that same tree. It has the sources of just about all the helix packages. Funny to find them on the debian woody tree, huh?
Hopefully it will work for ya. No guarantees. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

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"What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them?"
---Marilyn Pittman

[ColdPack]

Originally posted by ColdPack:
I have no idea. I just thought I'd poke around and there she was. Now I'm not sure if that's going to have other dependencies but, if so, you may just find them on that same tree. It has the sources of just about all the helix packages. Funny to find them on the debian woody tree, huh?
Hopefully it will work for ya. No guarantees. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif


I want to add that that first tarball is just the abiword tarball... just below it is an abiword-helix tarball. What makes them differnt? I don't know. Over my head, there. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[Mikenell]

Thanks, thats the package I'm getting, the one without Helix in the package name. I hope it compiles.
Thanks
Mikenell

[Mikenell]

amn there was errors compiling it and lots of messeges about gnome, I guess they have modified it http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/frown.gif
Will I have to download StarOffice?
Mikenell

[ColdPack]

Originally posted by Mikenell:
amn there was errors compiling it and lots of messeges about gnome, I guess they have modified it http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/frown.gif
Will I have to download StarOffice?
Mikenell

That sucks!
Sorry 'bout that Mikenell. I thought that could do it. That's the way to a solution, I suppose. By elimination.
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif I'll poke around some more.


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"What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them?"
---Marilyn Pittman

[Mikenell]

Well I found StarOffice 5.2 on a cover disk so I'm gonna give that a try.
Mikenell

[ColdPack]

It's slow but useable. Sorry about the bad luck with that tarball.
How's slack going for ya?
Miss Debian at all? http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif
(I'm trying out slack right now, too, for the heck of it. But on a spare partition. Debian is still it for me. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif )


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Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake
when you make it again.
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