Re: Corel Wordperfect nightmare
On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 02:30:29PM -0400, Phil Dyer wrote:
> Paul wrote:
>
> >
> > First I was told that I didn`t have "libm.so.5" so the graphical
> > Installer wouldn`t work, then a load of error messages saying "wp.....No
> > such file or directory" Finally it askes me for an installation
> > directory so I type in /usr or
> > /home and it says "invalid directory" and quits.
>
> >
> > I assume that the first message means I have to install libc5? Will this
> > bugger up anything else?
>
> Yes, you need libc5. You can get it from the oldlibs/ directory. It won't bugger
> ya' up. you may
> as well get xpm4.7 while you're there. Start from there and see if that takes care
> of the rest of the
> problems.
While you're at it, also install xlib6. These libc5 libraries get
installed in /usr/lib/libc5-compat/ so they won't bother anything else.
Bob
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