Hi again sszindian,
i have to confess i have tried a 5.th item ...
...i.e. to install abiword from the debian-wheezy repo ...and t could get a working abiword-2.9.2 ...with a returned warning comment about GLIB when started from console. This needed to install gtk3...
See list of installed packages hereunder.
abiword_2.9.2+svn20120603-8_i386.deb: 1864 K
abiword-common_2.9.2+svn20120603-8_all.deb: 2239 K
hicolor-icon-theme_0.12-1_all.deb: 12 K
libabiword-2.9_2.9.2+svn20120603-8_i386.deb: 2686 K
libcairo-gobject2_1.12.2-2_i386.deb: 428 K
libglib2.0-0_2.33.12+really2.32.4-3_i386.deb: 1788 K
libgtk-3-0_3.4.2-5_i386.deb: 1753 K
libgtk-3-common_3.4.2-5_all.deb: 2591 K
libraptor2-0_2.0.8-2_i386.deb: 199 K
librasqal3_0.9.29-1_i386.deb: 241 K
librdf0_1.0.15-1+b1_i386.deb: 128 K
libwmf0.2-7_0.2.8.4-10.2_i386.deb: 189 K
libyajl2_2.0.4-2_i386.deb: 25 K
Total: 14 M (13 files) <--- might be ca. 40MB once uncompressed ...
Maybe you might try an easier and safer way, and install it from the PPM as shown hereunder - this will also indicate you to install the needed dependencies - ... and add manualy the eventual missing dependencies that could still arise.
trick: use to start abiword from console
as also to check dependencies using:
if you also might want gnumeric, there is a place in pemasu's repo where it may be downloaded alone, without abiword, but it may need goffice ... this last file might introduce some incompatibilities with the abiwords dependencies --> to be tested ..
Now once installed, you maybe anyway would appreciate this post:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=77122
hope this helps
charlie