On Fri, 06 Oct 2000 21:58:13 -0400, fred smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 02:39:06AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Morning all
>>
>> I've just installed 7.0 on a spare Thinkpad, and find that I can not run some
>applications that worked fine on previous editions of RH.
>>
>> Acrobat reader installs okay but will not run [I ge t the dreaded "no such file"
>message].
>>
>> WordPerfect 8 install breaks [similar "no such file message[D, but scrolls past so
>darn quick I can't see which finle.
>
> WP 8 for Linux depends on libc5 which is no longer provided in RH 7.
> I have just installed 7.0 on a "spare" machine at work, haven't yet had
> time to figure out if I can install the libc5 compatibility stuff from
> RH6 onto it and have a snowball's chance of having it work.
>
> In fact it appears to be the same situation for acroread, too, at least
> for the one I've got (4.0 from May of 1999).
>
I upgraded one of my systems from 6.2 to 7.0 last weekend. After the upgrade
finished, I installed WP 8 -- which worked just fine.
I didn't think twice about it until I saw these posts. It turns out that I have
libc-5.3.12-31 on this system, probably left over from the previous 6.2 install. So
maybe installing an older rpm of libc5 (from 6.2? the build data is 16 Apr 1999) will
fix WP?
The 7.0 powertools disk has acroread (acroread-4.05-6), so installing this package
should get acroread working for you.
BTW, if anyone is thinking of installing StarOffice 5.2, I advise you to opt for SO5.1
instead. When I did the RH6.2 -> 7.0 upgrade, I decided to 'upgrade' SO5.1 to SO5.2.
Wow, what a difference: SO5.2 is noticeably bigger and slower than SO5.1, with no
additional features (that I could see). I nuked SO5.2 pretty quickly, and put SO5.1
back on the system.
--
Larry Grover, PhD
Assoc Prof of Physiology
Marshall Univ Sch Med
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