Alpha version of Ability Office for Linux
Download and installation (rpm format only)
1. Download the shared libraries (required):
2. Download one (or more) of the Ability applications:
You can choose any or all of the Ability applications.
3. Installation
The shared libraries must be installed. For example, right-click over the
ablibs-alpha-1.i686.rpm using your File Manager and select Install. Before
installing the other rpm's, you need to set-up wine (if you are new to
wine, see the wine setup notes and hints
below).
Now install the rest of the Ability rpm's. Note that the Database rpm
attempts to run a post install script to "register" the database. This
currently fails and the following commands needs to be manually entered at an
X terminal window:
cd /usr/X11R6/DAO
./regdao
Any problems, please email support@ability.com.
4. Run the applications using menus
For example, select Application/Ability
Spreadsheet to start Spreadsheet. Please note that the first time the
application runs, it may take a while before the screen is displayed.
The wine configuration file is called wine.conf and is typically in usr/local/etc
or /etc. Ability installs a sample wine.conf file called wine.conf.sample that
is copied into /usr/local/etc. You can use this as a base for the instructions
below.
The Ability applications do not require Windows to be present, so you can
configure wine for a "no windows" setup. In brief, you'll need to:
a) Create the following directory structure:
/win/
/win/window
/win/windows/system
/win/windows/Profiles
/win/windows/temp
You can substitute your own path for /win - as long as it matches your
wine.conf as described below. Make sure read/write permissions are available to
everyone. b) Change Drive C section of wine.conf to match above.
Note the reference to "win95" is NOT a mistake! For example: [Drive C]
Path=/win
Type=hd
Label=MS-DOS
Filesystem=win95 c) Include the Ability Database engine files, which are
installed in /usr/X11R6/DAO, in the path
section of wine.conf. For example, set up a Drive G to point to root and use it
in the path: [Drive G]
Path=/
Type=Network
Label=Root
Filesystem=win95
[Wine]
path = c:\;c:\windows;c:\windows\system;g:\usr\X11R6\DAO d) Change the default load order (in
wine.conf) in case you are using a
real Windows installation, so that it reads: DefaultLoadOrder = builtin, elfdll, so, native e)
Check /etc/ld.so.conf. It should at least contain: /usr/x11R6/lib
/usr/local/lib If you make changes to this file, make sure you run ldconfig. See
http://www.winehq.com/ for
more installation and setup instructions.
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