On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Ian Mortimer wrote: > > > Let's see: I see a report on slashdot that abiword 2.0 was released. I went > > where that pointed, and it had the SuSE, the gnome, and the gtk versions of > > the release. I *presume* that they all use and need the same libraries, yet > > each one finds *different* libraries missing, and most of those libraries > > are, in fact, installed on my system. > > If you want to install an rpm for a different Linux distribution or even > a different RedHat release (or rawhide) the safest way is to download > the src rpm and rebuild: > > rpmbuild --rebuild ......src.rpm > > That will link with the libraries installed on your system and (if the > rpm spec file is done correctly) will also adjust paths appropriately > for your system. > > Still no guarantee that will work but it can solve some of the obvious > problems.
Just a note on the above. I got interested in Mark's plight and took a look at getting abiword running on RH7.3, using the "rpmbuild -rebuild *.src.rpm" from rawhide. The dependency list for this task is still quite huge and found that many of the support devel rpm's were too old to work and would themselves require upgrading (download, rpmbuild, install, etc....). A daunting task in anybody's book. I wish I had the time to complete this project, but too many other "important" things demand my time. So far the quickest and easiest way I've found to get the new version of abiword to run, is to download the newest Knoppix iso (I have 3.2) and run it from the resulting Knoppix CD. Not optimal, but doable. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
