Re: what version of abiword do you get with abiword 3.0?

preliminary, general note: I **am** aware that having 2 versions of
the same program installed side by side, one by package manager, one
manually, is not recommended. I just wanted to quickly give a first
look to abiword 3, found this unexpected behaviour and now I'm trying
to understand what is happening. My current goal is ONLY to try a
little abiword3, **possibly** without uninstalling anything else.

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 16:10:39 PM -0700, Richard L. Dery wrote:

> No, it's not a bug; you have both versions installed. Version 2.8.6 was
> installed from a .rpm package using a package manager.

of course, but you seem to not have read my message. I **explicitly**
wrote "THAT ONE":

> >Now I have (side by side with abiword 2.8.6 (/usr/bin/abiword) from
> >fedora packages) another abiword binary in /usr/local/bin/abiword
> >
> >but when i launch THAT ONE...

which means exactly what you called "the hard way", that is:

when, at the prompt, I type /usr/local/bin/abiword... and click on
help-> about abiword, the pop-up still says that that is abiword
2.8.6, not 3.0

oh, and my $PATH isn't what you assumed either

[marco@polaris abi3]$ echo $PATH
/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/NX/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/home/z/bin:/home/marco/bin:/home/z/bin

so, what is happening here? How does an abiword binary knows who it is?

May it be that /usr/local/bin/abiword, which IS the result of
compiling the 3.0 tarball, has some string, or path to configuration file or library hardwired in its code, so that it produces that confusing "About" pop-up?

Marco

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