Subject: Re: Where is an INTEL Debian package of Abiword 9.5
From: Christian Meyer (chrisime@uni.de)
Date: Tue Nov 20 2001 - 11:49:52 CST
On Mon, 2001-11-19 at 23:46, Martin Sevior wrote:
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> On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Dr. David B. Teague wrote:
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> >
> > Hi
> >
> > The subject says it all.
> >
> > Does anyone have a Debian package for Intel of most recent Abiword (isnt'
> > that 9.5?)? Lacking that, is there any chance of success in compiling
> > Abiword from source for Woody?
> >
> > The download page seems only to have Power PC Debain packages of the most
> > recent Abiword. I'm running Woody on a PC with Gnome 1.4 and Enlightenment.
> > (The version of Enlightenment is that currently distributed with Woody.) The
> > version of Abiword distributed with Woody is still 0.7x, and seems to be
> > broken. (Perhaps I should I ask the Debian list about that.)
> >
> > Please tell me some place for me to look further.
> >
> > If I missed something I should have seen on the download page, my apology.
> >
> Hello,
> We are a volenteer organization and we rely on volenteers to build
> binaries for various platforms. There is a person who makes debian
> packages of of our gtk-only build for SID and these are released within a
> hour or two of the release. These can be acquired via the usual apt-get
> arrangement.
>
> However he refuses to make gnome builds of abiword so unless someone else
> volenteers to build and a thrid person volenteers volenteers to test,
> gnome-based debian users have to look elsewhere. I believe that ximian
> makes debian packages of the gnome-build. You might find them there.
I created some gnome enabled Abiword packages for previous builds (0.9.0
- 0.9.3 IIRC).
I could do that for future releases if you like.
Greetings,
Christian
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