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Installating AbiWord on Linux / PowerPCWelcome to the community of AbiWord users! The current version of AbiWord (0.7.9) should install and run properly on any Linux system using a PowerPC processor. AbiWord has been packaged in several different industry standard distribution formats to simplify the installation onto your system: A much more detailed version of these instructions is contained in theREADME.
RPMThe RPM installation process is very simple.
This release of AbiWord was built on a host with all applied updates from ftp://ftp.linuxppc.com/linuxppc-1999/updates/. Specifically, you will need libstdc++-2.10.0-0a.ppc.rpm to install this RPM. You may also try the static .tar.gz package if you wish to avoid this upgrade.
TARThere are two versions of the Tar files: one is the statically-linked version and the other is the dynamically-linked version. The dynamic version is smaller (2.6Mb vs 3.3Mb), our goal is to make use of a number of shared libraries on your system. If you don't know what this means, select the static version.The installation process for the static Tar files looks scary, but it is actually quite simple.
gunzip - C abisuite-0.7.9-Linux_i386_static.tar.gz | tar xvf -... or, if your tar command supports the ' z' flag: tar xvzf abisuite-0.7.9-Linux_i386_static.tar.gzBoth these commands will create the directory abisuite-0.7.9-Linux_i386_static. /install.sh |