WordPerfect has been released and withdrawn by Corel for the Linux platform, thus not requiring the use of Wine. Installation on any Debian based system is a breeze, Debian, Corel, Progeny etc. Instalation on RedHat or SuSE .... good luck.
Brett > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Andrew Fries > Sent: Friday, 15 February 2002 02:40 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SLUG] (fwd) Inquiry > > > 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... > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > "All I know is that I'm being sued for unfair business practices > by Microsoft. Hello pot? It's kettle on line two..." > - Michael Robertson, founder of Lindows > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
