On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 10:10 am, _nasturtium wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 05:38 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > OK, I am new to Mandrake, but not Linux, I ran RH 6.2-8.0 where it > > died for me. > > > > So now I am reasonably happy with Mandrake, but missing my abiword. I > > can't seem to find a rpm for it that will run. I purchased the > > download edition, and wonder if only the big spenders get it. > > > > If its not available as an official rpm from Mandrake, is there a way > > around it other than source? > > > > Rob > > Hello, > A good place to find *any* RPM/binaries for a program would be > www.rpmfind.net (a quick search for AbiWord yields the results), the > advantage being that binaries for all distributions and their versions are > available (Redhat, Debian et al). > Or you could try <project name>.sourceforge.net. ie for gaim, it would be > gaim.sourceforge.net.
It's on my set of disks, so if you haven't already got it, perhaps you need to set up Contribs in your sources list. I would guess that it's there. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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