AbiWord in OSX

[Pantso]

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  

[mobrien_12]

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

[psyjax]

Yep, you need to install XDarwin first, That'll fix you right up.

[Pantso]

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?

[psyjax]

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!

[Pantso]

Thanks man. I'll download them later      

[EDIT]

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 ]