Thank you for the immense help. I will give it a whirl when I get
home from work this evening. And thanks for helping me in times
past,too, Paul. Your name is one of the few I've come to expect to
hear back from! People like you keep linux on many machines, I
think.
Todd
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On 14 Jul 00, at 9:15, Paul Gray wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, TODD WITTER wrote:
>
> > machines makes me really question why Corel sits high up on the
> > linux distros.
> >
>
> Me too.
> Here's a blurb on installing WordPerfect that I posted to this list in
> March:
>
> Subject: WordPerfect again (was netscape intsall)
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> On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Paul Gray wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, U of S wrote:
> >
> > > Hello everyone,
> > >
> > >
> > > #2 Installation problems again. I downloaded the 7 files to install
>Wordperfect 8. I 'tar xvzf filename' ed all seven of them. When
> > > I run 'Runme' I am prompted for whether or not I have untared and gunziped all
>of the files. I answer yes, and it says "nothing more
> > > to install". The documentation speaks of a graphical install?? Never saw it.
>Indeed my install directory has many folders, but they
> > > do not contain the files they should. (probably try downloading again ?)
> > >
> >
> > To install WordPerfect on an out-of-the box Storm installation, you'll
> > need to install the xlib6 and xpm4 (currently xpm4.7) packages.
> >
> > Leaving margin for error and as always, YMMV: This is how I've gotten
> > WordPerfect installed on a default storm installation:
> >
> > 1) Do an "apt-get update"
> > 2) Do an "apt-get upgrade" to see if there are updates from Storm
> > for the things that you already have installed. (This is arguably
> > a good thing to do in general.)
> > 3) Do an "apt-get install xlib6"
> > (This installed for me both xlib6 and libc5 components.)
> > 4) Do an "apt-get install xpm4.7".
> > 5) Install WordPerfect as instructed.
> >
> > In truth, I did these in the order 1,2,3,5,4 and ended up with a
> > text-based installation of WordPerfect. However, the installation
> > succeeded nonetheless.
> >
>
> Sorry for a second follow-up and a not really storm-specific posting:
>
> If your WordPerfect installation goes awry mid installation, you'll need
> to clean out all of the ".bk" files that were by the installation script
> before you attempt to execute "Runme" again.
>
> Paul Gray
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