Wordperfect 8 seg fault

1999-11-01 Thread Stephen . Murphy
Any ideas why Wordperfect 8 seg faults immediately on start-up?

Wordperfect 8 seg fault

1999-11-01 Thread Stephen . Murphy
Thanks for your reply - I've been thinking along those lines - I actually installed libc5 quite early on. Am I right in thinking if ldd xwp shows all the libaries can be found then that is not the problem? I understood that as long as the library path is listed in /etc/ld.so.conf then the

Re: Wordperfect 8 seg fault

1999-11-01 Thread aphro
ldd may show all the libraries but there may be conflicts.. hard to explain cuz i hardly understand myself, but i will say that my wordperfect8 was broken for several months(as was realvideo player and other libc5 apps) because of misconfiguration of libc5, eventually i started playing with it,

Re: Wordperfect 8 seg fault

1999-11-01 Thread David Blackman
you need xpm***-altdev, I generally just install everything with xpm in the name on a debian box that's going to have wp8. --dave On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, aphro wrote: i had that problem and it was due to libc5 libs being either not installed or misconfigured (my /etc/ld.so.conf was all screwed