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 > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > > > ============================== > Jan M. - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > PGP key mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Fingerprint:397D 093C E802 964E 5316 B90A 93CE 6696 > > Thought for the day: > 'If I had known then, what I know now... > I'd have sooner been a watch-maker.' > --Albert Einstein
