Re: Corel Wordperfect nightmare
*- On 31 Jul, Paul wrote about "Re: Corel Wordperfect nightmare"
> 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.
>>
>>
>> dyer
> Thanks for the help, Bob and Phil. I installed libc5 and I`ve already
> got xlib6g. Wordperfect seemed to install sort of OK but still won`t
> run. Firstly the xwp command wouldn`t work so I put in the full path and
> now it tells me that it can`t find libXt.so.6. "Locate libXt.so.6" tells
> me "/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6" and "/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0". How
> can I fix this?
>
Since it is using the libc5 based libs you probably need the libc5 based
xlibs as well. Get the xlib6 package, notice no g on the package name.
It is also in the oldlibs directory.
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Brian
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