trying to install abiword 3, getting abiword 2.8.6??

[Kevin Martin]

On 10/17/13 10:23, Kevin Martin wrote:
> On 10/17/13 10:22, Kevin Martin wrote:
>> 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
>>
> Never mind the question on the source...I went and looked at your postings on the abiword forums and found the link that you
> downloaded from.
> 
> Kevin
> 
If you cd into your abiword-3.0.0/src directory and execute ./abiword (which happens to be script) what does Help->About tell you
(once abiword has started)?

Kevin