WP 8 Download and Installation - my expiriance

[martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de (Martin Bialasinski)]

Hi,

I did the download from ftp.funet.fi (actually any www.cdrom.com
mirror should have it by now I guess).

I got the multipart version, and also run into the problem, that Runme 
said there is nothing to do.

The problem is, that the files havo to be all lowercase.

gunzip GUI*

#convert the filenames to lowercase
mmv "GUI*" "gui#1"

tar xfv gui00

Then you may want to unpack the other gui* files as well, but the
installer should be able to do this also (I am not sure, so I would
like to hear from people who tried this).

./Runme

The installation is GUI based from this point. You may want to run the 
installation as root.

To do this, either start X as root (or log in as root through xdm) or
run ssh -l root localhost.

WP8 looks quite nice so far, but I usually use LaTeX and Lyx, so I
have to take a deeper look to evaluate it.

To run it, you need the debian packages libc5, xlib6 and xpm4.7.
Check if you have them installed with dpkg -l libc5 xlib6 xpm4.7

HTH,
	Martin