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From: Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 15:35:13 -0600
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] How to find Abiword on system?

> On Sunday 22 December 2002 12:10 pm, Seth Williamson wrote:
> > Just yesterday I installed Mandrake 9.0 on my system.  I am using the
> > KDE desktop.
> >
> > I was unable to find Abiword in the menu system, and it doesn't come up
> > when I type abiword in the "run command" line.
> >
> > Then I tried to install it from the Mandrake Control Center software
> > installation routine, but it tells me that "everything already
> > installed--is this supposed to happen?"
> >
> > I can't find the package on my system.  Searching for it with the "find"
> > command hasn't turned up anything, though it's possible that I'm so much
> > of a newbie that I didn't search in the right places.
> >
> > Can somebody tell me how to find this program on my system and make it
> > work?  Thanks...
> >
> >
> > Seth Williamson
> > Floyd, VA
> > USA
> 
> Are you using the down load 3 disk version or the 7 Disk Power Pack addition?  
> Abiword was something of a problematic program last I heard and was not on 
> the d/l disks due to space or they felt it was more trouble than it was 
> worth. Can't recall for sure. However it is on the Power Pack disks, Lord 
> everything is on the powerpack disks. So if you have the 3 CD d/l version you 
> need to go get abiword from rpmfind.net or google to find their web site. HTH 
> -- 
> Dennis M.  linux user # 180842
> 
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Abiword can be found in 9.0 contrib. on the ftp sites.

HTH.
   

--Angus

"Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness."--James 
Thurber

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