ptbr.dsl package crashed my abiword!

Forum: HD Install
Topic: ptbr.dsl package crashed my abiword!
started by: cyrano

Posted by cyrano on Jan. 21 2007,17:53

I installed ptbr.dsl package to be able to use special chars in my language, brazilian portuugese. and abiword doens't open, it says

"Glib error, can't convert UTF-8 to iso-8991", or something like that.

I'm working with DSL installed in HD, in a compaq presario 1200 with 40giga and 128 ram, 600mhz...

I tried to install the GTK2 package, and also the newer version of abiword in the repository, but got the same problem (and a much longer list of error messages...).

Also, couldn't map the abiword.dsl files that the instruction in the wiki tells me to do, to remove a dsl package. They say to type "tar -xtf myfile.dsl > myfile.txt" to get the list of files copied, but the command doesn't work and comes up with a message like "you can't use more than one format to extract" or something, i tried changing options to -tf and -xf and in both it said that abiword.dsl didn't look like a tar file...

Oh god. :/

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Jan. 21 2007,18:41

it's a tar gzip'd.. so you could use
tar ztf

Posted by cyrano on Jan. 22 2007,04:55

Ok, I'll try it.

But my real problem is with this GLib message...

Posted by cyrano on Jan. 27 2007,16:07

Still trying to persuade dsl 3.2 (is this it? how can i check the DSL version? I downloaded it few days ago, january 2007) ...to run abiword.

It's not gtk2 version, i'm trying abiword.dsl and it gives me the message:

GLib: Cannot convert message: Conversion from character set "UTF-8" to "ISO-8859-1" is not supported.

(abiword:355): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Could not open converter from 'UTF-8' to 'ISO-8859-1': unknown error (2)

(abiword:355): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversion from character set 'UTF-8' to 'ISO-8859-1' is not supported (this one appear 2 times...)

./abiword: line 4: 355 Aborted Abiword

I tried gtk2 also, and it gave me similar error messages.

I'm a newbie. What the ()@#*$ is going on here?

Ah, "thehatsrule", thanks for the tip. Typing tar -ztf package.dsl > package.txt works to get a txt of the paths that each dsl package copies and etc. But you guys should fix this in the wiki, because there it was wrong, it says to type "tar -xtf"...

< http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Removing_A_MyDSL_Extension >