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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 > **************************************************************** 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 *********************************************** *Reg. Linux User #278931* *********************************************** *Power by Mandrake Linux 9.0* *********************************************** -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze
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