wv for centos 4

Hi,

I am trying to install a plone product that wants to use wv to transform Microsoft Word documents to html.  Some things I have read or been told imply that it should already be installed or should be installable by yum.  I am not a fabulous yum user, and I can't use my installation to find mention of anything except WvDial.  Further searching on the web located some source code for wv-1.2.1, but I lack many dependencies to install it, and trying to track them down is really proving difficult.  [I also tried just installing Open Office libraries for the program to use instead, but those transformations have not proved satisfactory.]

I found an older version rpm: wv-1.0.3-2.1.fc4.nr.src.rpm.  When I try to install that, I am told that the package is not signed.  While I don't know exactly what that means or what to do about, it certainly makes the package sound like a risky install.

So this is bringing up all sorts of questions that I'm hoping someone may be able to answer quickly or to point me toward some good resources that will help me find the answers.

Why is wv not available in the centos 4 distribution, especially if it used to be there?  Is there something wrong with it?

Are there safe places to look for extra software to install?  When I go looking for a particular chunk of software, it often is coming from an address that looks unofficial to me.  centos.org implies something to me, but dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/ (recommended by centos.org) doesn't.  I don't want to do something stupid.  I kind of thought that our yum configuration covers that issue by looking in premium spots for the updates - is that true, and does that mean I shouldn't look elsewhere?

Someone here was kind enough to offer an rpm he built for centos 3.  How useful might that be for me?  Could it be deconstructed somehow to provide pieces that I haven't been able to find elsewhere?

Thanks for any advice.


Sally Wardell
Head, Information Technology Services
Duke University Medical Center Library
10 Bryan-Searle Drive
Durham, NC 27710
919-660-1195
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