> How does one install the libc5-1.0-2.i386 source rpm? After that is install=
> ed=20
> then how do I install the WordPerfect ? Any help will be greatly appreciate=
Generally, you install source rpm's by putting the source rpm file in
/usr/src/RPM/SRPMS, and do a 'rpm --rebuild libc5-1.0-2.src.rpm' (the
.i386.rpm is the binary, not the source rpm).
Once that is done (and it can take a while, depending on your processor and
amount of RAM) you can install it by going to the /usr/src/RPMS/<arch>
directory, where the <arch> is either i586, i686, or whatever, depending on
what processor you have.
However, you need to be really careful when you do something like this --
especially when you're working with fundamental system libraries. If you
go ahead and attempt to install the RPM, you will probably get a lot of
dependency and other errors, and if you force the install, you'll likely
break your system. That's because nearly everything *but* Wordperfect
needs a different version of libc.
However, it *is* possible for two versions of libc to coexist on the
same system, because each process can have its own idea of what system
libraries are going to be used (via the LIBPATH environment variable).
What I'd recommend is first to get a source tar.gz version of this library
and compile it. It's possible that you may get the libraries already
precompiled, so if that's the case, you can forego the time the compilation
takes.
The next step is to install Wordperfect. There is probably a Readme that
will describe how exactly to install it. Of course, since you've already
downloaded the libc5 tar.gz it probably won't run, because it needs a
specific libc5 library to run. If you cd into where Wordperfect is (cd
/opt/wp, probably) you'll run into a libraries subdirectory with a lot of
shared libraries -- that's where you want to copy the libc5 libraries.
Next, there is probably a runwp shell script somewhere in /opt/wp, perhaps
in /opt/wp/bin, that may need to be edited. That's because you'll need to
make LIBPATH point to /opt/wp/libsomethingorother, and it'll be in force
for that particular process, while the other binaries on your system
happily use the standard libc.
Write me privately if you need more help. This is a fairly advanced thing,
I suppose, and I don't have WP on my system any longer, but this is how I
remember doing it. I've used similar techniques for other software packages
(Star Office, for one) that required a slightly different version of libc
than was usual for the distribution I was running at the time.
> Marcia Waller
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