The directory for the following installation was /usr/local/contrib/abiword

• abiword, a multi-platform word processing program was installed on the Linux machines, (User Manual).

  The program name is: abiword
  
  To install abiword, the following packages/libraries needed to be installed. The directory for installation was: /usr/local/contrib/abiword

  • Gtk+ (ver 2.4.9), the Gimp Toolkit library
    
    
  • Glib (ver 2.4.0), the low-level core library that forms the basis for projects such as GTK+ and GNOME
    
    
  • Pango (ver 1.4.1), an open-source framework for the layout and rendering of internationalized text
    
    
  • Atk (ver 1.6.1), the accessibility toolkit library that provides a set of interfaces for accessibility
    
    
  • Enchant (ver 1.1.3), generic spell checking library
    
    
  • Fribidi (ver 0.10.4), implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (bidi) and Arabic Joining/Shaping

Enjoy !!!

Running the installed software

In case you are having trouble running the software, file a ticket at: http://ticket.cs.pitt.edu explaining the problem in detail (use your AFS login and password).