I am from Hay and cannot find anyone else in the town who uses linux, so I am trying this group. I am not sure of myself in linux and could be, not only behind the times, but doing something simple wrong. Can any one help with this problem, please.
I am trying to install wp8 for linux on a redhat 7 machine, given the following instructions that come with it:
Copy the main file - guilg00.gz into a seperate directory on your hard drive and perform the following operation on that file:
gunzip guilg00.gz ; tar -xvf guilg00
After this has been done, simply type the following command to start the intall program:
./Runme
Note: if you can, run the install from a terminal window from within X-Windows as the X based install is a more familiar interface.
To start the application after you have installed it, simply type the following:
<path to aplication> /wpbin/xwp &
I have copied the file guilg00.gz to /home/peter/wpinst and ran the first line. This gives me 14 files in that directory, including one called Runme. It also deletes the file guilg00.gz.
From there I run the second line, which comes up with several pages of text. It asks me if the files were untared, which I believe the first line did. It then comes up with an error along the lines of "graphical interface has failed", followed by several lines beginning with cmod, and ending with file or directory not found. At the end it asks me to enter the installation directory. If I type wpinst, or anything else, I get the error "invalid area".
Looking at the hard drive I find a couple of things. The first is that everything in the /home/peter/wpinst directory has been given a ".bk" extension (except the Runme). The second are the directories created /wp8, /wpbin, /wpexpdocs, /wplearn, /wplib, /wpmacros, /wpmacros/us. They are all empty except for the wplib, which has a log file. This file has about 160 lines - for example "./install. wp: linux/ins/wpdecom: no such file or directory"
I am also having trouble with my cd not reading all files on the mounted device (it works properly in the same machine under all windows flavours) and my network setup, but these can wait at the moment.
Thanks
Peter.
