DSL Embedded :: Abiword

dear cbagger01,

thanks you for your suggestion.

however, i cannot get openoffice to load
and open properly in dsl embedded.

i downloaded it from mydsl extensions.

perhaps openoffice works in other
dsl versions, but it does not seem
to work in dsl embedded.

i am grateful for any suggestions.

regards - kenzo

Just a suggestion, this may not be the problem,
but if you are not already doing so, try loading the gnu-utils
prior to loading Abiword.
This is assuming that you are using the older Abiword and not
the one requiring GTK2.

dear adraker,

that seems to have done the trick, good get !!!!

i will monitor for a couple of days to see if this
fix will "stick", and i will keep you posted.

many thanks for your excellent advice.

regards,
kenzo

Glad to help, I recalled some libfreetype and pango
issues from a very long time ago, and ke4nt1 put them in
gnu-utils.
The problem probably wasn't happening only with .doc
format.

regards,
Adraker

I thought gnu-utils was the busybox replacement?
Why is pango and libfreetype in there?
Why is there no reference in the Abiword .info file stating the requirement of gnu-utils?
Some of us need to be able to run Abiword on low memory computers and cannot afford the inodes/memory to load gnu-utils and Abiword!
Will someone fix this please!

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