Install abiword 2.6

Can't seem to get this going properly. I want to install abiword 2.6, but I'm not able to do it with the source code from abisource.com. This is the I get:

Code:

localhost:/mnt/home/Downloads/abiword-2.6.4$ ./configure && make && make install
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for g++... no
checking for c++... no
checking for gpp... no
checking for aCC... no
checking for CC... no
checking for cxx... no
checking for cc++... no
checking for cl.exe... no
checking for FCC... no
checking for KCC... no
checking for RCC... no
checking for xlC_r... no
checking for xlC... no
checking for C++ compiler default output file name... 
configure: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

What do I do?

 

I'm a newbie to Linux, but I installed Abiword using Add/Remove software. It's not the latest version of Abiword, but it works. You may be able to update to the latest version using sudo yum update in the command shell, but I'm no expert on this.

 

Might be a permissiosn error, try

sudo ./configure && make && make install

Perry
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I'm pretty sure I've tried it logged in as root as well, but I'll give it a try later today.

I have Abiword 2.4 installed through, but the Latex implementation isn't too good. I'm hoping that it's better in 2.6.

 

Have you installed a compiler? It looks like it needs a c++ compiler so try installing gcc-c++.

 

There you go, that might just be it. I have installed gcc, cannot recall having install gcc-c++.

I'll give you a report as soon as the boss leaves work and I can start slacking off.

 

Try running these commands:

Code:

sudo yum install yum-utils
sudo yum-builddep abiword

Did this myself for Wine. It should give you the progams you need to build and install abiword from source, but as always, you risk that it'll update a package that Acer has modified and end up causing problems.

 

Tried that just now, and that is a no-go - it wants to replace some esound libraries provided by acer. Maybe it's okay to force them?

If I just try ./configure, I get

Code:

checking for GTK... no
configure: error: No package 'libglade-2.0' found

 

2.6 is now available through yum after you've run

Code:

sudo yum update fedora-release