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Pantso

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« on: 4 October 2002, 04:03 »
Guys I need your help with this one. I downloaded AbiWord for OSX a while ago. It comes as a *.dmg.gz file which I unzipped and installed. Everything was going fine until I tried to open XAbiWord. To my disappointment nothing happened  :(  . All I got was the XAbiWord menu on the menu bar. I tried to open several documents (*.doc) but nothing would open, not even a new file.

Has anyone had a similar problem or is running AbiWord in OSX? I don't think it's a corrupted download otherwise it wouldn't mount the image disk.

Anyone? Thanks in advance  

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« Reply #1 on: 4 October 2002, 05:25 »
Did you install and start an X11 server?  Even though OSX is unix, it doesn't run X-Windows-based programs by itself.

You may find this link useful for setting up XF86

http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/Darwin.html
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« Reply #2 on: 4 October 2002, 10:43 »
Yep, you need to install XDarwin first, That'll fix you right up.
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« Reply #3 on: 4 October 2002, 14:46 »
Thanks guys. i'm still trying to get the grip on things here, so pls forgive any stupid noob questions    . I followed the link and apparently I'm presented with two options. Either download a binary package or the source code. Which one do you suggest? If I decide to download the binaries, which version do I have to download?

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« Reply #4 on: 4 October 2002, 22:27 »
I would take the latest pre-compiled binary. I don't know much about compilling and the thought of doing a gcc makes my skin crawl  

Anyway, the binarys work just fine.

http://www.xdarwin.org/download/

These are easy to install packadges. That XFree stuff is a headache and only good if you decide to get a packadge mannager like Fink.

This page has the pre-compiled XFree binarys in an easy to use installer.

Have fun!
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« Reply #5 on: 5 October 2002, 01:43 »
Thanks man. I'll download them later    ;)  

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Shit man! That's almost 55 MBs to download and I'm only on 56K! I also went to openoffice.org and saw that it come with Xwindows and the size is 12.. something MBS. God I hate dialup   :mad:

[ October 05, 2002: Message edited by: Panos ]