I was curious about the need to install xlib6, because the wpx-free
package, which is WordPerfect 8.0, depends not on it but on xlib6g.
However, I discovered that the book with which the Corel Linux CDROM I
have was shipped -- Corel Linux OS Starter Kit -- says on page 451 that
WordPerfect 8.0 needs xlib6 -- no mention of xlib6g. Confusing.
In any event, I discovered that xlib6 depends on xlib6g; so presumably
installation of the former will prompt installation of the latter.
Nevertheless, when I attempted to install xlib6 using attitude, I
received the following encouraging response:
< export DEBIAN_FRONTEND; apt-get install -s 'xlib6' ;echo RESULT=$?
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
xlib6: Depends: xlib6g (>= 3.3.2.3a-8) but it is not going to be
installed
E: Broken packages
RESULT=100
What do I do now?
I suppose it's possible that we have different versions of WP8 - mine's the commercial "Personal Edition" which I bought from Corel (in the naive hope that doing so would encourage them to continue to support it). In any event, I don't have xlib6g on my system, and the version of xlib6 I have (3.3.6-44 - available from the URL I provided earlier) depends on xlib (> 4.0) and libc5 (>= 5.4.46), but not on xlib6g. Whether installing that version of xlib6 will help, when your WP8 appears to depend on xlib6g, I don't know.
Patrick
