James Montgomerie wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Albert Wagner wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, Dom. Obviously, you didn't read the text of mine that you quoted
> > > below. I DID download the tarballs. It takes considerably longer than
> > > 15min on a 56K modem with a slow connection; Longer in fact than the
> > > slackware package and the generic binary. The tarballs, about 6 of them,
> > > were all incorrectly built. Or I would have compiled. Rather, as it
> > > stands right now, I can't get there from here. I have in the past
> > > downloaded and installed abiword, then erased it because basic features
> > > were still missing. Abiword probably holds the record for the open
> > > source project longest in development.
>
> The pre-compiled SlackWare package /does/ work, if you're prepared do be a bit,
> erm, 'dangerous':
>
> After installing the package, as root:
> ln /usr/lib/ltdc++-3-libc6.1-2-2.10.0.so /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3
Ah so. Yes, I have done such in the past. Sometimes works, sometimes
not.
But, I did manage to compile the tarballs. So I'm OK for now. Thanks
for the reply.
>
> This is an /extremely dodgy/ thing to do, and should /never be attempted/. But it
> works.
>
> To get spell-checking to work (not so dodgy):
> rm /usr/share/abisuite/dictionary/american.hash
> ln /usr/lib/ispell/american.hash usr/share/abisuite/dictionary/american.hash
Just got it up. Haven't tried spell checking yet. ispell rather than
aspell?
>
> Jamie (sometime SlackWare user).
