Re: WordPerfect for Linux installation problem...
Hi again,
Thanks for the info, although I had a good look at the page on
linux.corel.com where I got the file from, and really didn't see
anything (nothing like reading the instructions before doing
something!). However, I just looked again and they posted the following
update:
DO NOT INSTALL Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux as ?root?.
As far as I can see, this is probably not related to my problem, but
look at this: http://linux.corel.com/linux8/tlinuxfix.htm
David
Jan Muszynski wrote:
>
> Wordperfect depends on libc5 (It does say this somewhere, maybe on
> the website? I forget where, but I did see it before I installed)
>
> Slink is not libc5 based, so you need to install the libc5 packages.
> at a minimum you'll need xpm4.7
> you'll also need (but may find them already installed)
> libc5
> xlib6
>
> libm.so.5 is part of xpm4.7
>
> HTH
>
> On 15 Apr 99, at 14:43, David Nelson
> wrote about WordPerfect for Linux installation :
>
> > Hi there,
> > Anybody got any ideas for this?
> >
> > I downloaded WordPerfect for Linux (an X application), gunzipped it to a
> > tar file and then ran tar on it to extract about 8 or 9 files plus Runme
> > (the installer script) and readme (the info and instructions). I put the
> > lot in /tmp on my filesystem. I run Runme and it starts unpacking stuff,
> > and then there are a whole list of messages as to how it couldn't find
> > such and such a directory for CHMOD. At the end it asks me for my
> > installation directory (I suppose I'm expected to say what directory I
> > want WordPerfect installed in), and when I enter a new directory name,
> > it says that it's no good.
> >
> > There were a whole series of folders created at the top of my
> > filesystem, many of which contain subdirectories and files, some of
> > which contain nothing.
> >
> > At one point it complains it doesn't find libm.so.5. This doesn't appear
> > to be installed, it doesn't apparently form part of the debian
> > distribution (no entry for it in the dselect packages list), and
> > WordPerfect says nothing about some extra needed library file.
> >
> > I then gunzip and tar into the root directory of the filesystem to see
> > if that works better. Here, the installer starts unpacking stuff (no
> > messages, but the hard disk works hard) and then after a while silence
> > falls and nothing happens (I gave it 10 minutes).
> >
> > Does anybody have any ideas at all? The rest of my system works fine,
> > and I tried running the script from X and from a console. The
> > instructions say run it from within sh, whereas bash is the default
> > shell installed by Debian, and I did run sh from within bash before
> > starting the script.
> >
> > Yours,
> > Puzzled and Disappointed
> >
> >
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