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Operating Systems => macOS => Topic started by: Pantso on 4 October 2002, 04:03

Title: AbiWord in OSX
Post by: Pantso 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   (http://smile.gif)

Title: AbiWord in OSX
Post by: mobrien_12 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 (http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/Darwin.html)

Title: AbiWord in OSX
Post by: psyjax on 4 October 2002, 10:43

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

Title: AbiWord in OSX
Post by: Pantso 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  (http://smile.gif)  . 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?

Title: AbiWord in OSX
Post by: psyjax 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  (http://smile.gif)

Anyway, the binarys work just fine.

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

Title: AbiWord in OSX
Post by: Pantso on 5 October 2002, 01:43

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 ]