Re: ATTN: AbiWord v2.2.8 Released

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, J.M. Maurer wrote:

> AbiWord v2.2.8 Released
>
> This release has seen a lot of bugfixes, polish, and cleanups as
> we are nearing the end of the 2.2 release cycle. We are working
> hard towards AbiWord v2.4, which is shaping up nicely.
[...]
> All users are advised to upgrade to this new release. Windows
> users are advised to uninstall older versions first, and to make
> sure there are no files left behind[1].

         I got odd results under Fedora Core linux. Under FC1, I
simply downloaded the rpm, ran rpm -Uvh, and basta! : that did it.

         Under FC3 on another machine, I did the same, and got
dependency failures, calling for enchant and libenchant.

         So I got those from rpmfind, and tried to install them.
Neither would install without the other. So I tried both at once.

         But I still got a failure: one (I disremember which)
requires I think 1.2.2 of the other; what I have is 1.2.5, or more
likely 1.5.2.

         So I haven't dared try AbiWord itself again. The FC3 machine
is my wife's desktop, and she's working hard on writing a book, in
AbiWord.

         This situation reminds me far too much of the dependency
hell that finally forced me to give up Galeon entirely, even though
that was my favorite browser. It reached a point where
across-the-board updates would fail, because "yum update" couldn't
get past the conflict.

         Please say we're not going that way! Pretty please.

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