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Posted: Mar. 01 2006,18:32 QUOTE
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
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Posted: Mar. 01 2006,19:40 QUOTE
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.
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Posted: Mar. 02 2006,00:10 QUOTE
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
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Posted: Mar. 02 2006,00:41 QUOTE
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
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Posted: Mar. 02 2006,01:05 QUOTE
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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