HD Install :: ptbr.dsl package crashed my abiword!
I installed ptbr.dsl package to be able to use special chars in my language, brazilian portuugese. and abiword doens't open, it says
"Glib error, can't convert UTF-8 to iso-8991", or something like that.
I'm working with DSL installed in HD, in a compaq presario 1200 with 40giga and 128 ram, 600mhz...
I tried to install the GTK2 package, and also the newer version of abiword in the repository, but got the same problem (and a much longer list of error messages...).
Also, couldn't map the abiword.dsl files that the instruction in the wiki tells me to do, to remove a dsl package. They say to type "tar -xtf myfile.dsl > myfile.txt" to get the list of files copied, but the command doesn't work and comes up with a message like "you can't use more than one format to extract" or something, i tried changing options to -tf and -xf and in both it said that abiword.dsl didn't look like a tar file...
Oh god. :/
it's a tar gzip'd.. so you could use
tar ztf
Ok, I'll try it.
But my real problem is with this GLib message... 
Still trying to persuade dsl 3.2 (is this it? how can i check the DSL version? I downloaded it few days ago, january 2007) ...to run abiword.
It's not gtk2 version, i'm trying abiword.dsl and it gives me the message:
GLib: Cannot convert message: Conversion from character set "UTF-8" to "ISO-8859-1" is not supported.
(abiword:355): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Could not open converter from 'UTF-8' to 'ISO-8859-1': unknown error (2)
(abiword:355): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversion from character set 'UTF-8' to 'ISO-8859-1' is not supported (this one appear 2 times...)
./abiword: line 4: 355 Aborted Abiword
I tried gtk2 also, and it gave me similar error messages.
I'm a newbie. What the ()@#*$ is going on here?
Ah, "thehatsrule", thanks for the tip. Typing tar -ztf package.dsl > package.txt works to get a txt of the paths that each dsl package copies and etc. But you guys should fix this in the wiki, because there it was wrong, it says to type "tar -xtf"...
http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Removing_A_MyDSL_Extension
original here.