trying to install abiword 3, getting abiword 2.8.6??

Kevin Martin ktmdms at gmail.com
Thu Oct 17 13:31:32 UTC 2013


On 10/17/13 04:37, M. Fioretti wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I have a fedora 17 x86_64 box with abiword 2.8.6 installed via RPM in
> /usr/local/bin
> 
> Yesterday I decided to try for a moment, just for the fun of it,
> abiword 3.0 from source. I ended up with a binary in
> /usr/local/bin/abiwowrd.
> 
> When I launch THAT binary from the command line, I get an abiword
> window whose "About" box says it's abiword 2.8.6
> 
> I have already asked on the abiword list, you can read all details and
> configure output here:
> 
> http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-user/2013/Oct/0006.html
> 
> http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-user/2013/Oct/0008.html
> 
> posting here to see if some more light can come also from the Fedora
> side.
> 
> TIA,
> 	Marco
> 
Is /usr/local/bin/abiword a script that runs the abiword executable (perhaps using your path to get the correct executable)?

Kevin


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