Re: Missing Items in Windows package

From: Ryan Pavlik <abiryan_at_ryand.net>
Date: Wed Oct 12 2005 - 04:12:59 CEST

Ashley Ford wrote:

>
> The Windows Installer package abiword-setup-2.4.0.exe worked fine for
> me when connected to the internet but on a standalone machine it
> failed to find various packages.
>
> Downloading them from http://www.abisource.com/downloads/dependencies/
>
> Unzipping libxml2-2.6.19-runtime.zip and
> libmathview-0.7.5-runtime.zip into abiword/bin seems to work,
>
> is this explained in the install documentation ?
>
> Which others are needed ?
>
> I was unsure whether libxml2-2.4.12-bin.zip should be unpacked as it has
> a different size older libxml2.dll
> 876032 04-05-05 18:37 bin/libxml2.dll
>
abiword-setup-2.4.0 should work without a network connection. However,
the Equation Editor in the tools plugins and the GLIB-based
import/export plugins require a network connection to download those files.

You did choose correctly - the most recent versions in the dependencies
folder are required for 2.4. libxml2-2.4.12-bin.zip was used for the
2.2 series. (From memory, you need libxml2, glib, libiconv/gettext for
these plugins, as well as libgsf for the import/export ones and
libmathview for the equation editor. If you lack the proper
dependencies, you will probably get a warning on startup saying that a
shared library could not be found.)

A bug has been filed to provide an offline installation method - feel
free to create a bugzilla account and add yourself as a cc to bug 9619 -
you can access the report at:
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9619

Thanks for using AbiWord!

Ryan
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