I had the same problem. Just installed libc5, and Runme works
perfectly. WordPerfect is reallly
good. One problem: try typing "miniscule" followed by a space, and see
if it crashes. It kept
crashing for me whenever I did that. The downloaded version seems to
have this problem.
--V. Suresh Sureshsv (at) MascotSystems (dot) Com.
Http://www16.brinkster.com/vsuresh.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "USM Bish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 3:25 AM
Subject: Re: [LIH] wordperfect 8 installation problem
> On Wed, Jul 04, 2001, sayamindu dasgupta wrote:
> > hello all i recently downloaded wordperfect 8 for linux from
> > corel i unzipped the wordperfect.tar and placed it in the
> > /root/software/wordperfect directory of my rh 7.0 box then
> > when i run the Runme script from the directory i get a lot
> > of file not found error and at the end when it prompts for
> > the installation directory if i give anything it gives a
> > error messege and terminates if i just press enters it stops
> > then i found that only afew directorys like /wpbin /wpdocs
> > has been created but they are all empty plzz help
> >
>
> I am not on RH, so perhaps not the right person to attempt a
> reply ... however, I hope this post would keep the thread
> alive ...
>
> From the symptoms it appears that the Runme program itself
> could not run, probably because of unmet dependencies .... You
> should remember that WP8 is over two years old, and the old
> libraries needed to support it may not be available in the
> default RH 7.0 box.
>
> I was running WP8 happily when running on Debian Slink. When I
> upgraded to Potato last year, I had to install three programs
> from oldlibs section to overcome segfaulting ... On Debian,
> the old packages were xlib6, libc5 and xpm4.7.
>
> I do not know the packages system of RH 7.0 ... my hunch is
> that RH 7.0 default libraries are too recent for WP8 to
> operate ...
>
> I could be wrong here ... There must be people on this list
> using WP8 on RH7.0 ... They need to come forward to help you
> out.
>
> Bish.
>
>
>
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