>Message: 3 >From: "TODD WITTER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 08:46:09 CST >Subject: [SLU] WordPerfect-8 install probs >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >I'm not sure if this is the best place to go but sine I have storm >2000 on my machine, I'll give y'all a whirl... >In last month's MaxLinux mag, it came with a cd chock full of >goodies including a version of wordperfect 8. The readme file >supposedly tells you how to do this but, alas, it doesn't work at >all. >Maybe I'm screwing it up. > >It says copy the WordPerfect.tar.gz file to another directory (which >I did) then gunzip WordPerfect.tar.gz then tar -xvf >WordPerfect.tar. >Then type either ./Runme or sh Runme and the installation starts. >It then extracts the files and proceeds to say the graphical install >failed and will begin the text install. I watch it go through this >litany of files >that "don't exist" or what ever. It runs a series of >chmods to files that it can't >find or don't exist. After getting >through 100% of the installation, it then asks >for the directory of >Installation. I type it in, it says, essentially, no way (I >can't >recall the technical term but it was something about it's not being >able >touse that directory or that the directory is not correct...I'm >at work now with >only windoze to work with). >Has anyone else gone through this? I have tried several different >approaches and always the same result. >Can someone here help me out? Between this and the fact that I >have never successfully installed Corel Linux on any of my >machines makes me really question why Corel sits high up on the >linux distros. > > >Todd Witter >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >[EMAIL PROTECTED] Todd, it sounds like you aren't running the install script as superuser. You can unzip and untar the package as a user, but you have to run the install script as superuser, otherwise you won't have write permissions to all the required directories. I installed it, so I would have a full-featured word processsor under Linux that could import all my Word 97 files. I tried Staroffice but it's a memory HOG. Anyway, the Wordperfect install was a 3-month trial version, and it wouldn't even open my Word files, so, my advice is to forget it, and try out AbiWord, or one of the other Linux native apps. I never really liked WP anyway, that's why I wound up using Word =>) Allen Linkenhoker Get your FREE Email and Voicemail at Lycos Communications - http://comm.lycos.com _______________________________________________ Stormlinux-users-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stormix.com/community/lists/listinfo/stormlinux-users-list
