I’ve seen so many posts on the web for people looking for how to do this and none seem to work or are exceedingly convoluted, here’s how:
You will need to add these two repos to be able to successfully install abiword:
rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS//rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm rpm -Uhv http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm yum update yum install abiword
Thanks! This worked perfectly and was much clearer than other advice I found online.