AbiWord.app fails saying You can’t open the application “AbiWord.app” because PowerPC applications are no longer supported.

[robogeek (David Herron)]

I am on a MacBook Pro running macOS 10.11.6. My MacPorts tree was recently updated. I did a fresh install of Abiword as so:

$ sudo port install abiword
--->  Fetching archive for abiword
--->  Attempting to fetch abiword-2.4.5_0+use_binary.darwin_15.x86_64.tbz2 from https://packages.macports.org/abiword
--->  Attempting to fetch abiword-2.4.5_0+use_binary.darwin_15.x86_64.tbz2.rmd160 from https://packages.macports.org/abiword
--->  Installing abiword @2.4.5_0+use_binary
--->  Activating abiword @2.4.5_0+use_binary
--->  Cleaning abiword
--->  Updating database of binaries
--->  Scanning binaries for linking errors
--->  No broken files found.                     

AbiWord.app is installed to /Applications/MacPorts/AbiWord.app

Finder says the file was created August 10, 2006, and that it was modified today at 9pm

Double-clicking the app gives me an error dialog with the message up in the subject line.

To be certain - I deleted AbiWord.app and emptied the trash, then reran the above command to get the same behavior. I notice that the version number shown here, 2.4.5, is really old, and that on abisource.org they say 3.0.2 is the latest version.

[kencu (Ken)]

Wow. Old port. No maintainer.

Downloaded a premade binary that is obviously really old. Needs updating.

The source version doesn't build either at the moment, I just tried. Looks like you'll need to find it elsewhere or wait for it to be updated to the current version.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Note that there is a separate abiword-x11 port, if you can stand an X11 version. It is a newer version than the abiword port and it does build.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

In 72c27310bc79a82d9c6ea3898bbc6993b10c7fbf/macports-ports (master):

abiword: mark binary as ppc, don't use on > 10.6

See: #55384