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Re: help to make something work



On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Luis Cabral wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I started using linux, and I am enthusiasmed.
> I installed a Debian distribution in a very standard
> PC (Pentium 200, 32 mb, SVGA, 200 Mb on linux partition).
> I installed also xfree86 and KDE.

> I downloaded Wordperfect 8 and, after many tries, I 
> installed it successfully; but xwp says: Floating
> point fault.

I had quite similar problem with wp8. I still don't know, what caused the
problem. But it cured itself when I installed wp8 using 'su' instead with
loging as a normal user (instead of loging as 'root'). I haven't got
any idea, why it didn't work as installed by 'root'... 

hvirtane@cc.jyu.fi 


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