Subject: This Worked!
From: Matthew Lybanon (lybanon@cypress.nrlssc.navy.mil)
Date: Mon May 15 2000 - 10:36:06 CDT
Posting for the benefit of other users:
This solved the problem. I didn't do anything to the icons directory and haven't
seen any problems yet. Thanks, Bob.
"Robert G. Snyder" wrote:
> Matthew Lybanon wrote:
> >
> > I installed abisuite-0.7.9-Linux_i386_static.tar.gz (after uncompressing and
> > "untarring") on an Intel machine running Mandrake Linux. The installation
> > appeared successful, and the program goes into execution, but it fails
> > immediately. When it fails it gives the message:
> >
> > "AbiWord could not find any local font files in its font path. <More about
> > not invoking AbiWord directly; I am using the wrapper shell script. ...>
> >
> > The current font path contains the following directories:
> >
> > [/usr/local/AbiSuite/fonts]
> >
> > Please visit http://www.abisource.com/for more information."
> >
> > The directory /usr/local/AbiSuite/fonts does contain a large number of files,
> > but either they are the wrong files or the message is trying to tell me
> > something else. If the abisource website has any more information on this
> > topic, I was unable to find it. I would appreciate any suggestions.
>
> I had a similar problem with the same binary. I got, I think, a different error
> message but maybe the same thing is causing your problem.
>
> The installation process sets the font files' permissions as readable only by
> root and group. No user read permissions are set. Try (as root of course):
>
> chmod 644 /usr/local/AbiSuite/fonts/*
>
> The files in the 'icons' directory are set the same way so maybe they need the
> same treatment although I had no problems after changing only the font files'
> permissions.
>
> Bob Snyder
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