Re: WordPerfect for Linux installation problem...

1999-04-15 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 4/15/99 12:54:58 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Do you think I can delete all the directories it created for the > installation? (not the WordPerfect directory of course.) I suppose these > might have been left behind because of my multiple attempts to

Re: WordPerfect for Linux installation problem...

1999-04-15 Thread David Nelson
A big thanks to you for all the help. I installed the said libraries, etc, etc, and WordPerfect is now installed and up and running. For the information of other beginners, the installation files should be dumped in a subdirectory, not the root directory, and then all goes fine. Do you think I ca

Re: WordPerfect for Linux installation problem...

1999-04-15 Thread David Nelson
A big thanks to you for all the help. I installed the said libraries, etc, etc, and WordPerfect is now installed and up and running. The installation files should be dumped in a subdirectory, not the root directory, and then all goes fine.

Re: WordPerfect for Linux installation problem...

1999-04-15 Thread David Nelson
Thanks for all the help. So libc6 does not in anyway replace libc5, meaning I have to install both libraries and not just libc6 then? David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The libraries Jan menionted (included at the end of this post) are the files > you need to make the install work. You need t

Re: WordPerfect for Linux installation problem...

1999-04-15 Thread MallarJ
The libraries Jan menionted (included at the end of this post) are the files you need to make the install work. You need the xlib, xpm, and licb5 installed. The xlib and xpm need to be libc5 versions - you may already have then libc6 versions installed as well. -Jay In a message dated 4/15/9

Re: WordPerfect for Linux installation problem...

1999-04-15 Thread William R Pentney
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, David Nelson wrote: > At one point it complains it doesn't find libm.so.5. This doesn't appear > to be installed, it doesn't apparently form part of the debian > distribution (no entry for it in the dselect packages list), and > WordPerfect says nothing about some extra needed

Re: WordPerfect for Linux installation problem...

1999-04-15 Thread David Nelson
Hi again, Thanks for the info, although I had a good look at the page on linux.corel.com where I got the file from, and really didn't see anything (nothing like reading the instructions before doing something!). However, I just looked again and they posted the following update: DO NOT INSTALL Core

Re: WordPerfect for Linux installation problem...

1999-04-15 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 4/15/99 7:46:00 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I downloaded WordPerfect for Linux (an X application), gunzipped it to a > tar file and then ran tar on it to extract about 8 or 9 files plus Runme > (the installer script) and readme (the info and instruct