Re: WordPerfect 8.0 (Installation)

2006-02-10 Thread steef
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Re: WordPerfect 8.0 (Installation)

2006-02-09 Thread Ken Heard
Inspired by the comments and suggestions made by several people on the list, and by Rick Moen's article WordPerfect on Linux FAQ (http://linuxmafia.com/wpfaq/), I was able to install the version of WP8 I had inquired in 2000. Essentially what I did was to use the Debian equivs package to

Re: WordPerfect 8.0 (installation)

2005-12-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 03:53:58AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ken Heard wrote: Herewith is the latest update on my attempts to install WordPerfect 8.0 on my Debian 'sarge' GNU/linux distribution. snip Debian _is_ about choice. Corel isn't - they tied their product to one specific

Re: WordPerfect 8.0 (installation)

2005-12-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ken Heard wrote: Herewith is the latest update on my attempts to install WordPerfect 8.0 on my Debian 'sarge' GNU/linux distribution. snip There is now another possible option: WINE. Now that a beta version of WINE is out, I may be able to install WP 12 using it. Good luck. Let

Re: WordPerfect 8.0 (installation)

2005-12-16 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 06:04:59PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: So it would appear that packages xlibs and xlibs-data supercede xlib6g. In fact, the properties list of xlibs_4.3.0dfsg.1-14sarge1 says that it replaces xlib6g( 4.0). The xlib6g I was trying to install was 3.3.5-1.0.1 I

Re: WordPerfect 8.0 (installation)

2005-12-15 Thread Ken Heard
Herewith is the latest update on my attempts to install WordPerfect 8.0 on my Debian 'sarge' GNU/linux distribution. First, I discovered that in my original post of 17 November 2005, I gave the wrong paths for the files which would be installed by xlib6g. I only discovered my mistake when I

Re: WordPerfect 8.0 (installation)

2005-12-15 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 06:04:59PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: Herewith is the latest update on my attempts to install WordPerfect 8.0 on my Debian 'sarge' GNU/linux distribution. ... It is very much of a disappointment that I cannot seem to be able to use WP8.0 It makes the