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Installing AbiWord on Linux / INTELAbiWord should install and run properly on any Linux system with INTEL (or INTEL-COMPATIBLE) processor. It has been packaged in several different industry standard distribution formats to simplify the installation.
RPM
rpm - Uvh abisuite-0.7.9-1.i386.rpm DEB
dpkg - I abisuite_0.7.7-1_i386.deb SLPThe SLP installation process should be as simple as the DEB or RPM installation. However, we currently do not have the Stampede Linux distribution installed and have not tested our Stampede Linux package builds. These files are automatically generated via Alien. If you try the SLP distribution, we encourage you to send a message to the AbiWord development mailing list with an account of your experiments.
TARThere are two versions of the Tar files
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.
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.gz
Both these commands will create the directory abisuite-0.7.9-Linux_i386_static. /install.sh
Saving under Linux If you are saving under linux, it is recommended that you save in your /home directory, unless you dual boot(see below). If you have a lot of documents you should put them in a directory such as /home/documents. If you want to save a document remember you must have permission to write to it. Sometimes you may not be able to save a document because you do not have write access. In that case, it is suggested that you try to "Save As" somewhere else. Dual Booting Windows and Linux If you dual boot Windows and Linux, and you want to use the files under both systems, you will have to save your files on a FAT or FAT32 partion,or on a floppy disk, as windows can not access Linux partions, . It is recommended that you save the files in a directory such as "My Documents". Remember, under Linux you must have permission to write to that directory. If you don't, please contact your administator. Dual Booting Beos and Linux If you dual boot Beos and Linux, then it is recommended that you save the files on Beos's native filesystem, under the one directory. KDE and Abiword After installing Abiword on your machine, you can then set up Abiword to work with KDE. Right click on yur desktop, and select "New", and then "Application", as done below.
You should then type in "Abiword" in a box similar to the one below.
After this, type in any comments that you want, and in the executable
box, type in "abiword", all in lower case.
Now all you have to do is press the "OK" button and the Abiword icon
will appear on your desktop. If you like, you can put it onto your panel
by just dragging it from the desktop.
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