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Installed Programs: wvSummary and several other wv* programs which are deprecated in
favour of abiword: see
https://wvware.sourceforge.net/
Installed Library: libwv-1.2.so
Installed Directory: /usr/share/wv
wv-1.2.9
Introduction to wv
The wv package contains tools for reading information from an MS Word document.
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Note
Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.
Package Information
Download (HTTP): https://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/wv/wv-1.2.9.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: dbccf2e9f747e50c913b7e3d126b73f7
Download size: 608 KB
Estimated disk space required: 25 MB
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU
wv Dependencies
Required
libgsf-1.14.51 and libpng-1.6.40
Optional
Installation of wv
Install wv by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static && make
This package does not have a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
make install
Command Explanations
--disable-static: This switch prevents
installation of static versions of the libraries.