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bigpup · Posted: Mon 28 Oct 2013, 07:57 Post subject:

All programs could probably use a little tweaking.
Tweak away and post your version to the forum.
May turn into the new version for that program.

MochiMoppel · Joined: 26 Jan 2011 Posts: 335 Location: Japan

Wilhelm · Joined: 29 Dec 2013 Posts: 7 Location: Costa Rica

Files and directories whose names contain special characters (ß, ô, ö, etc.) can be opened, but you can't save changes to them.

Regards,

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7785 Location: qld

No problem here:

rufwoof · Joined: 24 Feb 2014 Posts: 308

In this posting http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=756181#756181 Wilhelm has noted that AbiWord in Slacko 5.6 is a unstable version (2.9.4) The latest stable version being 2.8.6 http://www.abisource.com/

From Menu, Wizard Wizard (PupControl) I see that you can uninstall original programs (Install, Remove Builtin) such as abiword 2.9.4.

After doing that how do I install abiword 2.8.6 (stable) ?

TIA

watchdog · Joined: 28 Sep 2012 Posts: 507

rufwoof · Joined: 24 Feb 2014 Posts: 308

THX

Tried it and it failed with

error loading shares libraries: libqconf-2.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.

Rolled back to a saved savefile. I'll just use OpenOffice Writer that I've SFS'd in.

rufwoof · Joined: 24 Feb 2014 Posts: 308

Discovered the abiword instability for myself today.

Wrote a page or so, pasted in some images and moved them around. Went to save and it completely locked up the system. Directory name was filled with square (extended) characters. 100% CPU, had to reboot.

Another bug that I'm occasionally experiencing is with the right (up/down) scroll bar. Sometimes the moveable 'block' stays where it is whilst the page scrolls, such that when you come to scroll again the block is in the wrong place. That might be a firefox thing as I've not seen that occur elsewhere.

Semme · Joined: 07 Aug 2011 Posts: 3586 Location: World_Hub

This one might be too new, in which case, this one. Paul likes to keep his libs current.

rufwoof · Joined: 24 Feb 2014 Posts: 308

Thanks.

Leaving the original (2.9) installed and installing the second of those two likes in the previous posting and then entering the link command as advised by watchdog did the job.

I've also deleted /usr/share/abiword-2.9 (leaving just the 'new' abiword-2.8 directory).

Things look good thanks (excepting that there are two Abiword menu items under MENU, DOCUMENTS)

Deacon · Joined: 19 Mar 2013 Posts: 60

Hello,

I've found an issue, which is kind of odd.

On my netbook I've found that there is a Kernel Panic that occurs during the boot sequence. I've seen this on other pups before, usually on a frugal that's 2FS file's has gotten heavy, but this is a full on a 300GB HD with 1GB of onboard RAM (it's an Atom-based HP Mini).

Usually waiting for the whole panic and restarting causes the machine to start fine.
Any idea why?

r4dic4l · Joined: 05 Feb 2014 Posts: 13

Just wanted to say thanks for this release. It was the only OS that would run on this old abused machine stably. I am happy that I found this as I have adopted it as my pet.
Took some training, but she's a beaut in my eyes. Very Happy

Sorry; couldn't figure out how you guys upload file to home host....

sancxjo · Joined: 29 Apr 2013 Posts: 49 Location: Russia

Hello!
I hope to write at

greengeek · Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 2407 Location: New Zealand

Does anyone have any tips for the best way to install the latest openssl on slacko 5.6?

I am showing:
# openssl version
OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013
#

which I understand is one of the heartbleed affected versions.

SFR · Joined: 26 Oct 2011 Posts: 1044