Abiprobs

Forum: Apps
Topic: Abiprobs
started by: adraker

Posted by adraker on Dec. 08 2004,21:01

Anyone seen this??-

I'm reasonably sure I've got the
latest abiword2,gtk2.dsls, and release
0.9.1.
I know libfreetype is in there.
When I try to open anything, debug/console
gives Gdk warning that it cannot convert utf8
to iso-8859-1 and nothing shows up in abiword.
MS Docs display question marks.
Siag works.Text editors work.

Even with a "standard",non-remastered live cd
of 0.9.1, (loading dsls from hard drive) this happens.
I know the above are fonts but thats about where I
pull up and park.

Any pointers much appreciated!

Draker

Posted by henk1955 on Dec. 08 2004,21:55

with 0.9.1 i have a simular problem with xchat-2.4.0 and grip-3.2.0

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Dec. 08 2004,23:08

This is the fun of an X.X.0 release! Lots of bugfixes!

I haven't had the problems you guys are describing, especially since I'm ising the 1.X version of Xchat and K3B for cd jobs. But the factored Abiword has been working fine for me, as has OpenOffice.

-J.P.

Posted by adraker on Dec. 08 2004,23:48

Just tried a *standard* 8.4 live with
the abiword and gtk2 dsls and works
fine.Must conclude somethings wrong
with my 0.9.1 but golly gee whiz gosh
every thing else works perfectly.
I'm stumped.
Darn it.
Nuts.

A very inoffensive Draker.

Posted by Nanobot on Dec. 09 2004,18:24

Same prob here. Thunderbird.dsl and Abiword....both standard and gtk2 version comes out with a :
Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversion from character set 'UTF-8' to 'ISO-8859-1' is not supported
Nothing wrong under dsl 0.8.x

any help will be much appreciated!

Posted by adraker on Dec. 09 2004,20:24

This doesn't help, but I compared my
rebuild sources of 0.8.4 and 0.9.1, and just looked
at libs, the only real difference that excited me was
that 0.9.1 didn't have a Xerrors.db that 0.8.4 did.
I blammed it in and rebuilt, but it didn't fix the problem.
Though after using firefox for a while,and logging out,
the same gdk error that nanobot quoted was in the console.
Just don't know where to even start looking.....

Posted by ke4nt on Dec. 09 2004,20:33

I am working on the issue to resolve it quickly.

Just as a quick remedy,

From a root shell, typing apt-get install libc6
from the unstable sources seems to work for me..

Let me know,
feedback is welcomed...

73
ke4nt

Posted by roberts on Dec. 09 2004,23:14

You don't need to get libc. It was not cut.
I have sent to Kent the fonts in question.

Posted by adraker on Dec. 09 2004,23:20

KE4NT1 MAKE BOX GO!

What a clever fellow!
So I d/l'd libc6.deb from unstable and
dpkg -i libc6.deb in emelfm, which was
short sighted, but then opened root term
and did tzconfig, installed gtk2.dsl, and
abiword-gtk2etc.dsl, and fell off my chair
onto my butt when it worked, resulting in
severe brain damage.Some would use the word
increased.
Ye Gods, I think you've solved it.
I'll remaster libc6.deb into /home/dsl via /etc/skel.
For easy install from live CD.
Thanks ke4nt1.
I'm just about to to see if gift.dsl works
now, still have to symlink .gift from damnsmall to dsl.

Posted by adraker on Dec. 09 2004,23:24

Aaha! Roberts posted in before me.
I'll await further advice.
Thanks for your help!

Posted by roberts on Dec. 09 2004,23:39

Yes, I would use caution, before replacing a core library like libc.
The system would not run if that was cut.
It it better to get it from the source, what was cut.
Some of the fonts from the misc directory.
I made s tar ball for those extensions that need it.

Posted by ke4nt1 on Dec. 10 2004,06:22

I have added the fonts to the gtk2.dsl

Redownload this one file, and all gtk2 extension issues resolved.

Thanks, Robert..

73
ke4nt

Posted by adraker on Dec. 10 2004,10:39

Hmmm,
dl'd it, got wrong md5sum, did it again,
f744230e079d1e5a3d8dfe4c71b6587b gtk2.dsl
seems right, but still no joy with abiword.
I open emelfm as root, mount the cdrom
and go to my packages folder, select gtk2.dsl
and hit the mydsl button in emelfm.
Then from fluxbox menu I select myDSL/"Update to GTK2".
Then back to emelfm to do Abiword-gtk2.dsl,
and then select it from fluxbox menu.
So far, so good?
Open a text file, nothing.
Just to check, installed libc6.deb, Abiword o.k.
Have I got the right package?

Adraker

Posted by henk1955 on Dec. 10 2004,10:40

from roberts:

Quote

It it better to get it from the source, what was cut.
Some of the fonts from the misc directory.
I made s tar ball for those extensions that need it.

can you make this tarball public. so we dont need to download gtk2.dsl to "repair" 0.9.0.1

Posted by ke4nt1 on Dec. 10 2004,14:30

I have built another gtk2.dsl this morning.
Included a few more items to support gtk2.

Since it affects all gtk2 apps, it's best to simply
redownload the one package to support them all.

This is more to repair my "gtk2.dsl" file, than
repairing the DSL OS, since there are not any
gtk2 apps in the distro to begin with.

It works for abiword and thunderbrd for me..
Give it a try , and feedback..

73
ke4nt

Posted by henk1955 on Dec. 10 2004,15:17

i was extending my dsl-0.8.4 using apt-get from debian.
i only used the dsl-dpkg.dsl and gnu-utils.dsl. this was enough to remaster the 0.8.4 version to include all i needed (gimp2.0, xchat2.4.0, grip, firefox10)
now the missing files prevent this. thats why i asked for the "missing-files" tarball or a list of the removed files

Posted by ke4nt on Dec. 10 2004,17:59

Will do..
and I hope to have time to do some thorough testing
of the gtk2 apps this weekend..

The standalone, non-factored gtk2 apps will need
these files added to them as well to run properly..

If issues arise in your usage, please post..

73
ke4nt

Posted by adraker on Dec. 11 2004,11:18

O.K., so now downloaded again the gtk2.dsl
and abiword seems to work.
henk1955- I have not yet tried Grip.
Gimp I think worked untill I ruined everything
with Gift.
Thanks Kent- I'll stay tuned for further developments.

Posted by VVVV on Dec. 21 2004,21:11

does anyone's spell checker work with abiword?? mine doesnt!

Posted by newbie on Jan. 08 2005,13:04

what about 0.9.2? the same problems?
I need an word processor like abiword for a slow machine which has .doc compatibility and which features tables. c

Posted by adraker on Jan. 09 2005,05:38

The current gtk2 and abiword-gtk packages are fine
with DSL 0.9.2. or 0.9.1 for that matter.
If it's an old low-ramer machine, you might be better off
just using an older non-gtk2 package of abiword.dsl.

Posted by I went to bed very late on Jan. 09 2005,16:49

installed 0.9.2 and abiword.gsl on fresh hd-install

does NOT work as it does in 0.8.0!

can't find libs and the libfreetype or sth. like that. linked the libs but the freetype seems not to be

Posted by adraker on Jan. 09 2005,20:56

Yes, it seems thats right.
I d'led abiword201 and put it into a
standard unembellished DSL 0.9.2
live session and no work.
I've only been using the gtk type
in recent times.

Posted by ke4nt1 on Jan. 09 2005,21:26

There are two ways of handling this..

1. Between version 0.8 and 0.9.2 , several items were added
to the gnu-utils package to make room on the distro for more things.
These were items that were NOT required to support any packages
on the default DSL distro ( within the 50 megs ), but were
general linux support files , the lib libfreetype.so being one of them.
Many of the files like these are needed for sucessful building from
packages or sources, so it was appropriate to place them in gnu-utils.
As a rule, this IS the way we would like to handle this.
If you choose to expand your DSL system to include gtk,
you are suggested to download the gnu-utils.dsl package for support.
The busybox app is really not the app you want for expanding your DSL.

2. I could add the libfreetype and other files to EVERY gtk extension,
as they are removed or modified in the DSL base .iso.
Then they would install and run from a stock DSL disc....but.
Every download would be larger in size.. and.
When these support files are upgraded by the authors,
every package would also need to be rebuilt with the new version..

Since the extensions are user-contributed, many folks don't know these
files are no longer in the 0.9.x series, and/or may use 0.8 or 0.7 to build
their contribution. The result would be a non-working extension for
users of the 0.9 series. The addition of the files in the gnu-utils solves this.

I may add notes to the gtk packages to make gnu-utils.dsl a 'requirement'.
Most users of the extensions load dsl-dpkg.dsl and gnu-utils.dsl
as a rule-of-thumb anyway, just to get apt-get support and remove busybox.

73
ke4nt

Posted by adraker on Jan. 09 2005,21:40

Thats also why I've had no problems-
I always make my live cd builds with
dsl-dpkg.dsl and gnu-utils.dsl in the root
dir of the cd.
I didn't realise you had put the lib
in gnu-utils.
I assumed I had it simply because I
would always run gtk2.dsl when I used
abi.

Posted by ke4nt1 on Jan. 09 2005,22:22

I think I added it to the gtk2.dsl as well, just in case..

73
ke4nt

Posted by adraker on Jan. 09 2005,23:01

He's a sneaky little bugger,
slipping in libraries hither,
thither and yon!

Posted by I went to bed very late on Jan. 12 2005,12:45

o.k. thanks for the information

Posted by I went to bed very late on Jan. 15 2005,15:30

great! it works