Re: WordPerfect 8 on Woody

[Jeffrey Taylor <jeff.taylor@ieee.org>]

Quoting Jerry Van Brimmer <jerryvb@toast.net>:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to install Wordperfect 8 on Woody. I have installed libc5 and 
> xpm4.7. I have WP8 on a commercial Corel CD. When I cd to the CD root 
> directory, there I see install.wp. When I type ./install.wp and press 
> Enter I get this message:
> 
> debian:/cdrom# ./install.wp
> bash: ./install.wp: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied
> debian:/cdrom#
> 
> 
> What does "bad interpreter" mean? What could be the problem?
> 
> Thanks
> 

IIRC, install.wp is a Bourne shell script.  Something isn't working.
It is doubtful that you don't have the Bourne shell (/bin/sh).  Is
your CD perhaps mounted "noexec"?

HTH,
  Jeffrey