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I'm using the older RC1 64-bit version, nicely setup but I need an Abiword package for this that works, the stuff I downloaded doesn't. BTW - I've tried this CE version but have problems with it on my computer so I'm sticking with RC1 which runs well with an older kernel..

@amethyst. Abiword's a hard one. pkgs.org indicates it has about 30 dependencies. Ubuntu Bionic Beaver use Buster as it's base. But ibiblio>puppy doesn't have an Abiword pet in either pet packages bionic or common64.
Why Abiword? Aren't you better off running wine and using Atlantis --just a better wordprocessor.

On my hard-drive's folder for Bionicpup6's applications I have both WordGrinder, https://cowlark.com/wordgrinder/index.html and TED, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_(word_processor). Don't know why I have WordGrinder --someone must have published it and I downloaded without thinking: I don't do terminal apps. TED isn't bad if you need something simple. Under Bionic64, the 64-bit package from here, https://nllgg.nl/Ted/ seems to only be missing libtiff.so.4. Previously, I tracked it down to create the pet package (too large to attach). But all you'd need is the lib and symlink I've attached.

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Extract and drop into /usr/lib.

mikeslr wrote: Sun Jun 11, 2023 3:53 pm

@amethyst. Abiword's a hard one. pkgs.org indicates it has about 30 dependencies. Ubuntu Bionic Beaver use Buster as it's base. But ibiblio>puppy doesn't have an Abiword pet in either pet packages bionic or common64.
Why Abiword? Aren't you better off running wine and using Atlantis --just a better wordprocessor.

On my hard-drive's folder for Bionicpup6's applications I have both WordGrinder, https://cowlark.com/wordgrinder/index.html and TED, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_(word_processor). Don't know why I have WordGrinder --someone must have published it and I downloaded without thinking: I don't do terminal apps. TED isn't bad if you need something simple. Under Bionic64, the 64-bit package from here, https://nllgg.nl/Ted/ seems to only be missing libtiff.so.4. Previously, I tracked it down to create the pet package (too large to attach). But all you'd need is the lib and symlink I've attached.
lib.tar.gz.
Extract and drop into /usr/lib.

I don't have 64-bit Wine and not going to download that AND a 32-bit compatable package for 32-bit programs. Anyways, I've set up Fossa64-bit 9.5 now which has Abiword. I'm continuing to use Bionic 32 as my pimary driver and only really interested in 64-bit to run DMR content (which happens seldomly in my case). This is something that has always p*ssed me off about Linux, this bloody wild goose chase for dependencies and so on for certain packages and versions. Windows are miles ahead as far as convenience of software packages are concerned. Too many distributions and versions in Linux world, it's ridiculous actually.

Edit 2: ozsouth has just published an abiword-gnumeric combo for fossapup64-low but identified as 'slightly older versions'. May work under DpupBuster OOTB, or only need a couple of libs. Link from here, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewto ... 280#p91280. But as I question Abiword's reliability, still suggest the following.

Edit: Ignore everything below the line. Use MikeWalsh's Textmaker portable. https://mega.nz/folder/LShHgaCC#QKEiIMMQDVlvQPdJ5IHcWw. It could be located in /opt if you want to run completely in RAM. Eventually, you would have to register. But it's a reputable company which doesn't share your email. Maybe about twice a year you'll receive a offer to upgrade to SoftmakerOffice at a discount; or to download a free font.
@ 155 Mbs, it's not all that much larger than abiword. Even if locate in /opt it won't have a significant impact on available RAM. And if locate outside the Save almost none. It's reputed to be the most microsoft-word-compatible. Best of all, it doesn't have abiwords reputation of screwing things up when you actually need a wordprocessor.

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You didn't need 64-bit wine, nor loading a 32-bit compatibility SFS to run Atlantis. Use MikeWalsh's Wine-portable 5.11, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewto ... 191#p68191. The AppImage it's built-around contains its own 32-bit libraries, and its script create both the wine-prefix and menu-entries. Of course, using it you can't run entirely in RAM.

If DpupBuster is a better Puppy with your system, while running fossapup64 you can use PPM to download abiword and ALL dependencies.

Thanks for the links, that Abiword works OOTB for DpupBuster. Some of those other sruff are eye-watering in size, wow. I think I'll stick with running Bionic 32 all the time and then just boot one of the 64-bits on those rare occasions I need to watch DMR stuff or when the need arises to use something like Tor browser . In all other scenarios, 32-bit is a much better option for my setup.