[wellylug] Abiword crashes with libfribidi0 problems

[Daniel Pittman]

Adam Bogacki <afb at paradise.net.nz> writes:
>> 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.

More or less, it can be.  The problem gets worse as you get larger
periods of time between the stable and testing releases, of course,
because the delta between the two increases.

Also, of course, it depends on the package.  The less dependencies it
has on the rest of the distribution the less trouble it is.  

>> 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.

Good luck.  I generally used backports.org when I was using mixed system
and found it a decent solution.  These days I opted for the Ubuntu path.

	Daniel
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