From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 5 17:24:48 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AF8937B401 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 17:24:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from ai1.anchorage.mtaonline.net (ai1.anchorage.mtaonline.net [12.17.140.247]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8526043FA3 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 17:24:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ai1@mtaonline.net) Received: from en26.ai1.anchorage.mtaonline.net (root@printer [192.168.0.26]) by ai1.anchorage.mtaonline.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h261OhNX004242 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 16:24:43 -0900 (AKST) (envelope-from ai1@mtaonline.net) Received: (from abc@localhost) by en26.ai1.anchorage.mtaonline.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) id h261OmaD033490 for "freebsd-questions" ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 01:24:48 GMT (envelope-from ai1@mtaonline.net) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 01:24:48 GMT From: ai1@mtaonline.net Message-Id: <200303060124.h261OmaD033490@en26.ai1.anchorage.mtaonline.net> X-Authentication-Warning: en26.ai1.anchorage.mtaonline.net: abc set sender to ai1@mtaonline.net using -f Subject: AbiWord X-Mailer: Umail v2.9.2 To: "freebsd-questions" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG No question, just help for anyone that needs it. After struggling with AbiWord 1.04, available at www.abisource.com, this is what you need to make it work with FBSD 4.7, the "easy" solution to which I did not come across in my searching: 1. Download AbiWord 1.04 (1.03 crashed non-stop for me). abisuite-1.0.4-FreeBSD_i386_gtk.tar.gz 2. FTP aspell-0.50.3.tgz *AND* psiconv-0.8.3.tgz from the FBSD ftp servers. 3. Grab pspell-.12.2.tar.gz (source is on the internet somewhere) and "./configure; gmake; gmake install". Then you should have a good and fairly stable version of GTK AbiWord ... In days of testing, it is the best WP for FBSD IMHO. It's native FBSD, and not a hog like Office suites, not a half done piece of junk, easy for anyone to use without training; and has a good interface with most WP features, without being overly bloated. It's really the only choice if you just want an ordinary average WP for FBSD (with the added bonus that you don't need 25 other pieces of software to make it work). -- If I could only find a non-GNOME/non-KDE/non-Linux browser(/email) package with the quality rendering of Netscape-4.8 without the bloat, and get my USB cameras to work, I'd be pretty happy. It kinda sucks to have to install an entire 100MB linux distribution and 25MB of netscape stuff just to view the web :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message