Why not see if it is available for your specific distribution? If you
use something like Ubunut, apt-get install abiword for example.

If you really want to install from source. Just untar the source, make
&& make install would take care of it for you.

John Schember
 

On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 18:53 -0700, Josef Lowder wrote:
> .
> Someone sent me a .wps file and I can't open it with open office. 
> So, searching the net, I found that abiword is supposed to open it. 
> But when I downloaded abiword, there is no instructions on where 
> and/or how to install it. 
> 
> Should I create a subdirectory named abiword in /opt or some 
> other place? to install it? 
> 
> 
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