On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Brian Astill wrote: > Gee I'm cross! > > Whenever am I going to be able to install abiword without running into > dependencies problems? > I am running RedHat 7.1, which is at least reasonably up to date. > Here is what happened when I tried to install Aboword 0.9.5 from its > RPM. > > [root@BAPhD bra]# rpm -i abiword-gnome-0.9.5-1.i386.rpm > error: failed dependencies: > abiword-fonts is needed by abiword-0.9.5-1 > gal >= 0.8 is needed by abiword-0.9.5-1 > gnome-print >= 0.29 is needed by abiword-0.9.5-1 > libgal.so.18 is needed by abiword-0.9.5-1 > libgnomeprint.so.15 is needed by abiword-0.9.5-1 > > Doesn't need much, does it? > Or is this a matter of abiword not following standard paths? > Redhat 7.2 was about 6 months out of date at release time. 7.1 is positively ancient. GAL changes on a monthly basis. I guess once evolution hits 1.0 GAL will be stable. You'll need ximian gnome to get those libraries. You'll also need abiword-fonts rpm from the download site though. The plain gtk version of 0.9.5 should work with the fonts rpm though. Good Luck, Martin
