XawM (was Re: [Novalug] Replacement for abiword??)

[donjr]

On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 09:38 -0800, Beartooth wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Beartooth wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, donjr wrote:
> >
> >> 
> >> If you install the lib "libXawM.so.1" by installing the RPM XawM your 
> >> dependency problem should go away. One place you may be able get the 
> >> RPM is at: 
> >> <http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=50078>
> >
> > 	Very odd: I found four there, for which many thanks; but Opera 
> > 9.10 downloaded all of them as .html files! I tried again with Epiphany 
> > -- and got nothing new.
> 
>  	Firefox does get those rpms *as* rpms. There are four of 
> them for i386. The first one alone gets a dependency on 
> XFree86-libs, which yum doesn't find; do I just want all four, or 
> keep chasing dependencies with yum, or ...?

This is just a GUESS, since I don't know what hardware or Distribution
and version you are running, but that said.
  Most likely you would only need XawM-1.6-2.i386.rpm  and
XawM-Xaw-1.6-2.i386.rpm  or XawM-Xaw3d-1.6-2.i386.rpm 

Per the release notes the packages are:
 Split into several packages:
   XawM -- runtime libraries
   XawM-devel -- development files
   XawM-Xaw3d -- symlinks from XawM to Xaw3d
   XawM-Xaw -- symlinks from XawM to Xaw

So I would assume that *-Xaw3d and *-Xaw configure XawM in either 3D or Flat mode.

As far as what else you would need WELL that depends on what you have installed.


How I'd go about installing a program on my Desktop PC any more is to
launch Synaptic {a graphical interface to my package manager system}
tell it what I want to install and let it resolve the dependencies and
let it decide where to get the packages from.
  {-: Do note I run Ubuntu(Debian based) on a i686 (or k7) and have a
high speed Internet connection. :-}

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