On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 13:42:11 +1100
Tony Prince wrote:

>I want to install WordPerfect
> and Star Office in the Linux partition, and for the last couple of
> months (off and on) have been trying unsuccessfully to do so from a disk
> that comes with Next Handbooks' "Learning Linux" (which I bought just
> because it had these two programs on it).

Could it be you're trying to install binary packages meant for Intel architecture onto 
your PowerPC-based system? They are not compatible! I really doubt whether ppc 
versions of WordPerfect exist since I believe it required Wine (an Intel-only 
application) libraries to work - correct me if I'm wrong! I haven't heard of 
StarOffice available in PowerPC version either, and I used SuSE for PowerPC (7.0) 
myself... 

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