Latest abiword and link-grammar?

Post #231,528 by cwbrenn 10/30/05 12:20:53 AM Reply	Latest abiword and link-grammar? Wanted to install the latest Abiword, because I heard it has a plugin for a grammar checker and I was curious to see how well it worked. I downloaded the autopackage for Abiword, and during the install it said it couldn't find link-grammar, so I should install that first. Ok, so it's not so much a plugin as it is integration with another tool. That's cool. But getting this damn thing installed is a pain in the ass. The readme that comes with the damn tarball was obviously written for an earlier release and never updated, because it tells you to type "make" in the directory to compile the source, but THERE IS NO MAKEFILE included with the distribution. You can ./configure to CREATE a makefile, and THEN type make like the readme says, but that won't produce the FILE the readme says will appear. And just having the thing sitting in your home directory doesn't help, autopackage won't see it. So I have no idea how to get the latest version of abiword to install on my machine, because I need to install lib-grammar first, and I have no idea how to install lib-grammar on my machine... "We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?" - Edward Young
Post #231,550 by folkert 10/30/05 11:50:34 AM Reply	Is there a... autogen.sh. This creates the things you want. autoconf is usually able to work it, actually autogen.sh calls autoconf, so it has to there too. If neither of those work... what executable scripts are there in the source? -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* Freedom is not FREE. Yeah, but 10s of Trillions of US Dollars? SELECT * FROM scog WHERE ethics > 0; 0 rows returned.
Post #231,555 by cwbrenn 10/30/05 4:24:00 PM Reply	Re: Is there a... OK, autopackage.sh ran and spit out the message "you can now run configure." So I ran configure, and something happened, but it didn't tell me what. What next? "We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?" - Edward Young
Post #231,602 by folkert 10/30/05 10:27:10 PM Reply	well... There should now be a Makefile And a buncha udder stuff. make and then make install I suppose. autopackage does everything you were looking for when you wanted to run "./configure" -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* Freedom is not FREE. Yeah, but 10s of Trillions of US Dollars? SELECT * FROM scog WHERE ethics > 0; 0 rows returned.
Post #231,642 by cwbrenn 10/31/05 8:57:37 AM Reply	Heh. Well, that worked. On the other hand... the abiword install did something, because now I can't boot my laptop. Yay me! :D "We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?" - Edward Young
Post #231,657 by folkert 10/31/05 9:59:04 AM Reply	Duuuude... You seem to have the best problems. I ain't sure where to go next. Best of luck. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* Freedom is not FREE. Yeah, but 10s of Trillions of US Dollars? SELECT * FROM scog WHERE ethics > 0; 0 rows returned.

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