Thanks for providing the link. Unfortunately, even though I installed abiword from extras-devel (successfully), I get several "packages missing" errors when I try to install your .deb. These include libfreetype6, libfribidi0, libglib2.0-0, libhildonfm2, libosso1. Do I maybe need to have another repository enabled, or be in red pill mode, or install these libraries manually, or something else? Thanks very much for any insight you can provide! OS is 2.2007.50-2.