The AbiWord package contains a word processing application. This is useful for writing reports, letters and other formatted documents.
Download (HTTP): http://www.abisource.com/downloads/abiword/2.4.6/source/abiword-2.4.6.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 8ed5fb282b9741aca75b9e47500d39a1
Download size: 25 MB
Estimated disk space required: 262 MB (additional 210 MB to build and install the API docs)
Estimated build time: 4.5 SBU (to build and install the program, docs and all plugins)
FriBidi-0.10.8 and libgnomeprintui-2.18.0
libgnomeui-2.18.1 (for GNOME-2 support), gucharmap-1.10.0, Enchant (uses Aspell-0.60.5), wv (with libwmf installed first), and Valgrind
libgsf-1.14.7 (to build the OpenDocument/OpenOffice plugin), Poppler-0.5.4 (for the pdf plugin, requires installing with unsupported xpdf headers), librsvg-2.16.1, Nautilus-2.18.3 (for GNOME-2 support), GOffice-0.6.1 (you must use a version of GOffice <0.3.0), Link Grammar, Aiksaurus, libgnomedb version <1.3.0* (requires libgda version <1.3.0), libwmf, GtkMathView (requires Gnome DOM Bindings which requires gdome2), libwpd, OTS, and Psiconv
* The libgda/libgnomedb stack required for AbiWord database access may conflict with the versions used by the Gnumeric-1.8.2 database plugin. Though the libraries themselves pose no conflict, the executables and support files will overwrite one another. Note that the current (version 3.0.x) stack does not pose a conflict with any of the previous versions (but does not support AbiWord or Gnumeric database access. AbiWord requires versions <1.3.0 (1.2.2 is known to work).
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/abiword
Install AbiWord by running the following commands:
cd abi &&
./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
cd ../abiword-plugins &&
sed -i 's/dictionary_file)/reinterpret_cast<const unsigned char *>(&)/' \
tools/ots/xp/AbiOts.cpp &&
./configure --prefix=/usr --without-inter7eps &&
make &&
cd ..
If you wish to create the API documentation, Doxygen-1.5.2 must be installed and issue the following commands:
pushd abi && doxygen && popd
This package's test suite requires Valgrind. Though the end message will indicate the tests failed, there will actually be many tests that run to a successful completion. Run the tests by issuing the following commands:
pushd abi && make check && popd
Now, as the root user:
cd abi &&
make install &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/abiword-2.4.6 &&
install -v -m644 docs/*.* \
/usr/share/doc/abiword-2.4.6 &&
cd ../abiword-plugins &&
make install &&
cd ..
AbiWord is now installed and must be used to build the Help files. Issue the following commands as an unprivileged user:
pushd abiword-docs && ./make-html.sh && cd ..
Then as the root user, install the
help files:
install -v -m644 man/abiword.1 /usr/share/man/man1 &&
install -v -m644 Manual/en/Abiword_Manual.abw \
/usr/share/doc/abiword-2.4.6 &&
cp -v -Rf help /usr/share/AbiSuite-2.4/AbiWord &&
find /usr/share/AbiSuite-2.4/AbiWord/help \
-type d -exec chmod -v 755 {} \;
If you have a GNOME installation,
issue the following commands as the root user to install the AbiWord Bonobo component description file:
install -v -m644 abidistfiles/GNOME_AbiWord_Control_2_4.server \
$(pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0)/lib/bonobo/servers &&
if [ $(pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0) != "/usr" ]; then
rmdir -v /usr/lib/{bonobo/servers,bonobo}
fi
If you built the API documentation, install it by issuing the
following commands as the root
user:
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/abiword-2.4.6/api &&
for FILENAME in $(ls abi/docs/dox/html); do
install -v -m644 abi/docs/dox/html/${FILENAME} \
/usr/share/doc/abiword-2.4.6/api
done
--without-inter7eps: Some
of the headers from the EPS
package are not compatible with GCC-4.1.2. This parameter prevents linking to
the package and incurring a build failure.
sed -i '...' tools/ots/xp/AbiOts.cpp : This command is used to fix an incompatibility with GCC and the libots package.
if [ ... != "/usr" ]; then
...;fi: This command is used to remove unneeded
directories if the GNOME
installation is in any prefix other than /usr.
Choose the right template for your language and locale from the list produced by the following command:
ls /usr/share/AbiSuite-2.4/templates
Create the folder ~/.AbiSuite/templates then copy the
normal.awt you want into it:
install -v -m750 -d ~/.AbiSuite/templates &&
install -v -m640 /usr/share/AbiSuite-2.4/templates/normal.awt-<lang> \
~/.AbiSuite/templates/normal.awt
Change <lang> in
the above command to fit the name of the file you want.
If you have desktop-file-utils-0.13 installed, you should run the update-desktop-database command to update the mimeminfo cache and allow the Help system to work.
Last updated on 2008-05-09 08:00:42 -0500