[wellylug] Abiword crashes with libfribidi0 problems

[Adam Bogacki]

> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:04:10 +1000
> From: Daniel Pittman <daniel at rimspace.net>
> Subject: Re: [wellylug] Abiword crashes with libfribidi0 problems
> 
> Ouch.  No wonder you have problems with your system -- this is pretty
> much never a good idea.  

Hmm .. on the whole it's pretty stable.
> 
> Those are much, much better solutions than trying to run a mixed release
> system through pinning.
> 
> > However, when I try to enter text it crashes with gnome-terminal error
> > message ..
> >
> > abiword: symbol lookup error: abiword: undefined symbol:
> > fribidi_get_type
> 
> You have a conflict between the version of the fribidi code on your
> system and the version of abiword.  You can probably resolve this by
> either updating to the latest fribidi and abiword or, possibly, by
> building abiword against the version of fribidi installed on your
> machine.

I've tried the first, without luck. If going back to purely Etch does
not work, I may have to rebuild .. though I prefer to use apt-get.

Thanks,

Adam.