Abiword plugins

[salix2501]

I installed Abiword but I am unable to install the plugins. Is there anyway to work around this problem?

Thanks.

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[gapan]

Can you explain what exactly you're trying to do and where exactly it fails and how?

[salix2501]

I installed Abiword and it went great but there is another package that you can install which contains all the plug-ins. I went to http://darkstar.ist.utl.pt/slackware/ad ... ord/2.6.8/ and did a
manual installation using installpkg. I have done it before with Slackware and Zenwalk and the plug-ins are installed automatically but that was not the case with Salix.

Thanks.

-2501

[thenktor]

We have Abiword 2.7.9 in our repo. The one you have pointed to is 2.6.8. So the plugins do not necessary have to work. You could try with the 2.6.8 Abiword package.

[salix2501]

Ok I will try that. Thanks....

Do we have the Abiword plug-ins in our repositories? I did not find it.

[thenktor]

No, we don't have it. You could open a request.

[salix2501]

perfecto.

[gapan]

My understanding is that the plugins cannot be installed like that anymore. Any plugins have to be included when compiling abiword itself.

[salix2501]

That is new...I have another laptop running Sidux and I was able to install the plug-ins from a different program. Maybe is different for Slackware/Salix. I will work around it...thanks...!
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[gapan]

No, it's not different for Slackware/Salix, but debian and debian-based distributions have an annoying tendency to split packages into thousand pieces, so that's probably why you got them as separate packages. If you find a separate source package for the plugins, it would mean I'm wrong, but I don't think there are any.