On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 03:00:12PM -0800, Thomas Taylor wrote: > > Thanks Seth, Aaron and Chuck for the help. I managed to d/l abiword from the > extras devel tree finally. Now just have to clean up all the failed > dependencies shown below. > > >>>>> errors from rpm <<<<< > [tom@localhost temp1]$ rpm -ivh abiword-2.2.5-3.i386.rpm > warning: abiword-2.2.5-3.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID > 1ac70ce6 > error: Failed dependencies: > aiksaurus-gtk >= 1.2.1 is needed by abiword-2.2.5-3.i386 > enchant is needed by abiword-2.2.5-3.i386 > libAiksaurus-1.2.so.0 is needed by abiword-2.2.5-3.i386 > libAiksaurusGTK-1.2.so.0 is needed by abiword-2.2.5-3.i386 > libenchant.so.1 is needed by abiword-2.2.5-3.i386 > libgnomedb >= 1.0.4 is needed by abiword-2.2.5-3.i386 > libots-1.so.0 is needed by abiword-2.2.5-3.i386 enchant and aiksaurus are other packages which were dropped recently from FC. Presumably they will migrate to extras or this already happened. This is somewhat strange in a case of enchant as its description says "A library that wraps other spell checking backends". A common wrapper which you have to find somewhere "outside" does not sound that useful. > Also, need to clear up some missunderstandings. Abiword was included in the > FC3 core release, not the FC3 extras. Lots of things were in core and are not there anymore. A list is rather extensive. Moving to extras big fat pigs like openoffice or eclipse would be much more effective. Michal