Hi, I have the free download wordperfect 8. I unwrapped the tarball into /usr/local/wp8 or something like that, and made a simlink to the ultimate executable. It's been a long time . . .
I remember I had to install a few libraries... xpm4.7, xpm4g, and one more I believe. At www.corel.com they used to have a big linux session with a mailing list. I poked around in the mailing list archives to find this out. Someone said to create this little script to launch it and it worked: #!/bin/sh WORD_DIR=/usr/local/wp8 BINDIR=$WORD_DIR/wpbin $BINDIR/xwp & Hope that helps. On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 07:19:34PM -0500, Marvin Stodolsky wrote: > Nathan, > > THere is a Debian program called alien, under which > $ alien -r SomePackage.deb > will be converted to a SomePackage.rpm > > You could query the Debian list > debian_user <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > for someone who lives close to you and could do the conversion. > The Wordperfect.deb would have to be copied from the CD to the host > harddrive. Probably about 500 MB of space is needed for the process. > You would still have to solve the problem of getting the > WordPerfect.rpm back to your System for installation. > > MarvS > > From: Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Wordperfect Suite 8 for Linux > > Hi, > I am running Mandrake 8 on my main computer, and am quite pleased with > it. I have always worked with Wordperfect in the past and have been very > satisfied. I do not have Wordperfect installed on this. I purchased > Corel's Linux Delux Edition, quite a while ago. This installs with > Wordperfect 8 as part of the set up. What I am wondering is if there is > some way that I can install it on Mandrake 8 from the Corel CDs, or if > there is some other way. Thank you for any help that you can give me. > > Nathan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
