This relates only to using Julien's staging PPA. I wrote a test case before beginning: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=12325491&postcount=8 Please ignore what I'd tried prior to that in that forum thread! It's a BAD IDEA because you then can't downgrade 'fontconfig-config' and 'libfontconfig1' if so desired!!! I also posted about that at Lubuntu QA: https://lists.launchpad.net/lubuntu-qa/msg01620.html But no one jumped up to help so I continued on my own. No problem in Lubuntu: lance@lance-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install abiword Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: abiword-common libabiword-2.9 Recommended packages: abiword-plugin-grammar abiword-plugin-mathview The following packages will be upgraded: abiword abiword-common libabiword-2.9 3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded. Need to get 4,739 kB of archives. After this operation, 1,191 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/lubuntu-dev/staging/ubuntu/ precise/main libabiword-2.9 i386 2.9.2+svn20120603-8~precise1~ppa1 [1,974 kB] Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/lubuntu-dev/staging/ubuntu/ precise/main abiword-common all 2.9.2+svn20120603-8~precise1~ppa1 [1,609 kB] Get:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/lubuntu-dev/staging/ubuntu/ precise/main abiword i386 2.9.2+svn20120603-8~precise1~ppa1 [1,156 kB] Fetched 4,739 kB in 8s (542 kB/s) (Reading database ... 124756 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libabiword-2.9 2.9.2+svn20120213-1 (using .../libabiword-2.9_2.9.2+svn20120603-8~precise1~ppa1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libabiword-2.9 ... Preparing to replace abiword-common 2.9.2+svn20120213-1 (using .../abiword-common_2.9.2+svn20120603-8~precise1~ppa1_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement abiword-common ... Preparing to replace abiword 2.9.2+svn20120213-1 (using .../abiword_2.9.2+svn20120603-8~precise1~ppa1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement abiword ... Processing triggers for shared-mime-info ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ... Setting up libabiword-2.9 (2.9.2+svn20120603-8~precise1~ppa1) ... Setting up abiword-common (2.9.2+svn20120603-8~precise1~ppa1) ... Setting up abiword (2.9.2+svn20120603-8~precise1~ppa1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place lance@lance-desktop:~$ Upgrading 'abiword' in Lubuntu was a piece of cake and it works great! Not so much in Ubuntu. Abiword is not a default app in Ubuntu but with a freshly installed and updated Ubuntu Precise if I want to install 'abiword' I get: lance@lance-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install abiword [sudo] password for lance: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: abiword-common abiword-plugin-grammar abiword-plugin-mathview libabiword-2.9 libgdome2-0 libgdome2-cpp-smart0c2a libgsf-1-114 libgsf-1-common libgtkmathview0c2a liblink-grammar4 libloudmouth1-0 libots0 libtidy-0.99-0 libwv-1.2-4 link-grammar-dictionaries-en ttf-lyx The following NEW packages will be installed: abiword abiword-common abiword-plugin-grammar abiword-plugin-mathview libabiword-2.9 libgdome2-0 libgdome2-cpp-smart0c2a libgsf-1-114 libgsf-1-common libgtkmathview0c2a liblink-grammar4 libloudmouth1-0 libots0 libtidy-0.99-0 libwv-1.2-4 link-grammar-dictionaries-en ttf-lyx 0 upgraded, 17 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 8,870 kB of archives. After this operation, 28.8 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n Abort. Now lets try installing abiword in Ubuntu after installing Julien's PPA: lance@lance-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install abiword Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: abiword-common abiword-plugin-grammar libabiword-2.9 libgsf-1-114 libgsf-1-common liblink-grammar4 libloudmouth1-0 libots0 libtidy-0.99-0 libwv-1.2-4 link-grammar-dictionaries-en Recommended packages: abiword-plugin-mathview The following NEW packages will be installed: abiword abiword-common abiword-plugin-grammar libabiword-2.9 libgsf-1-114 libgsf-1-common liblink-grammar4 libloudmouth1-0 libots0 libtidy-0.99-0 libwv-1.2-4 link-grammar-dictionaries-en 0 upgraded, 12 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 5,892 kB of archives. After this operation, 25.8 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n Abort. There's a huge difference: The following NEW packages will be installed: abiword abiword-common abiword-plugin-grammar abiword-plugin-mathview libabiword-2.9 libgdome2-0 libgdome2-cpp-smart0c2a libgsf-1-114 libgsf-1-common libgtkmathview0c2a liblink-grammar4 libloudmouth1-0 libots0 libtidy-0.99-0 libwv-1.2-4 link-grammar-dictionaries-en ttf-lyx The following NEW packages will be installed: abiword abiword-common abiword-plugin-grammar libabiword-2.9 libgsf-1-114 libgsf-1-common liblink-grammar4 libloudmouth1-0 libots0 libtidy-0.99-0 libwv-1.2-4 link-grammar-dictionaries-en Clearly the 'mathview' pkgs are not installed and maybe there's a problem with 'ttf-lyx' due to this change: depends on 'fonts-lyx' instead of transitional 'ttf-lyx' (Closes: #674820) Source: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/abiword/2.9.2+svn20120603-1 It all gets too complex for my simple mind but I'd been pushing for an SRU and I just don't see how we can do that w/o some serious dev help. As I said I can use Julien's PPA version in Lubuntu w/o problems but in Ubuntu I get that "page jump while typing in a multiple page document" problem and I'd suspect that the lack of those "mathview" pkgs could be problematic for those who wish to integrate with 'gnumeric' ?????????????? Just for poops and giggles I'll purge that PPA in Ubuntu, then install 'abiword' and show you what happens: lance@lance-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install abiword Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: abiword-common abiword-plugin-grammar libabiword-2.9 The following packages will be REMOVED: abiword-plugin-mathview The following packages will be upgraded: abiword abiword-common abiword-plugin-grammar libabiword-2.9 4 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 4,783 kB of archives. After this operation, 854 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n Abort. You see it wants to remove 'abiword-plugin-mathview' and then if I run apt-get -f install it would recommend removing 'libgtkmathview0c2a'. Complicated huh? Then I get the page jump thing, but only in Ubuntu! So I just can't recommend an SRU or moving that PPA version from staging upwards because I'd think we need to build pkgs that work with all flavors .............. or do we?