abiword issues

Randall Wood randall.h.wood at alexandriasoftware.com
Sat Jan 5 13:11:27 PST 2008


Port abiword installs an Aqua app in /Applications/MacPorts. Look for  
it in the Finder.

On 5 Jan 2008, at 15:53, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> On Jan 5, 2008, at 14:48, Michael J. Vollinger wrote:
>
>>>> After that I tried installing the other abiword package, version  
>>>> 2.4.5_0 and it says it installed.  The problem I am having now is  
>>>> I can not start the program.  When I open a xterm window and type  
>>>> abiword I get the error message: bash: abiword: command not  
>>>> found.  Am I doing anything wrong?  Help help would be looked  
>>>> upon kindly with any version of abiword.
>>>
>>> Try typing the full path to the executable, presumably /opt/local/ 
>>> bin/abiword. Your xterm may not be using the same PATH as your Mac  
>>> OS X Terminal.
>>
>> I typed  /opt/local/bin/abiword and got the return of bash: /opt/ 
>> local/bin/abiword: No such file or directory.  This happened both  
>> in xterm and in the Terminal.
>
> Then I guess that's not what it installs. Type "port contents  
> abiword-x11" to discover what it does install and where.
>
>
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