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

On 10/17/2013 12:32 AM, M. Fioretti wrote:
>
> 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.

Actually, having two versions installed is usually OK.

> 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?

I don't think that's the case.

Is there a symlink in either /usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin/ or /usr/NX/bin/ that
points to the abiword in /usr/bin/?

If that's the case, the symlink could be modified to point to
/usr/local/bin/abiword.

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Received on Thu Oct 17 13:32:43 2013