On January 23, 2003 05:12 pm, you wrote: > On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 19:52, Paul Schmidt wrote: > > I am running Mandrake 8.1 and since there is no Abiword RPM specifically > > for this version I decided to build from sources. Downloaded the sources > > for 1.00.3 and began the compile, it dies on the linking step looking for > > the Xi library which is not installed. Anyone know what this library is, > > and where I could get a copy of this library. I like what I have seen of > > Abiword, but the version that shiipped with Mandrake 8.1 was slightly > > buggy.... > > Try XFree86-devel; it's a while since I've run Mandrake but I'm fairly sure > that's where libXi used to live.
Actually as John suggested it's XFree86-devel-static, but some of these names can get quite ridiculous. Now that the Xi library exists the compile worked fine, and I now have a running 1.0.3, I'm happy for a while, except for one other thing, which I'll deal with as another thread. Thanks again Paul ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
