Re: Where to install abiword?

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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