trying to install abiword 3, getting abiword 2.8.6??

[Kevin Martin]

On 10/17/13 08:55, M. Fioretti wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 08:31:32 AM -0500, Kevin Martin wrote:
>> On 10/17/13 04:37, M. Fioretti wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> When I launch THAT binary from the command line, I get an abiword
>> [snip]
>>>
>> Is /usr/local/bin/abiword a script that runs the abiword executable
>> (perhaps using your path to get the correct executable)?
> 
> no, I had said binary because it is a binary:
> 
> [marco at polaris ~]$ file /usr/local/bin/abiword 
> /usr/local/bin/abiword: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=0x09a41a0a13e8e09c817dedb54f9189638bb05893, not stripped
> [marco at polaris ~]$ echo $PATH
> /usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/NX/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/home/z/bin:/home/marco/bin:/home/z/bin
> 
> I too thought that since it uses shared libs it may be loading
> something from the 2.8.6 installation through such libs, but fail to
> see what/where they may be. /usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin is empty, and the
> others are "bin", not "lib" folders.
> 
> Marco
> 
Hmm, on abisource.com it seems like the lastest beta version is the 2.9.4 source, no 3.0 source.  And I can find no downloads for v3
on sourceforge.  Where did you get the source code?

Kevin