Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 01:15:40AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said > would this be a canidate to run more than one version of debian? (the > chroot thing whereby you setup something like apache or xf86 to run in > chroot env that is different (libs, etc) than your current system) Yes, absolutely[0]

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-23 Thread Kent West
Alan Shutko wrote: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: What is _wrong_ with Corel?! Do they not see this gaping wide opportunity? They didn't exactly have good sales of WPO2k (probably because it was a buggy piece of junk) and decided it wasn't worth pursuing. And even before, they didn't ha

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-23 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:44:41 -0500, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Bill Benedetto wrote: > James D Freels writes: > > James> I haven't used WordPerfect8 from Corel in a while and just > discovered > > FWIW, I'd be VERY interested in getting WP

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-23 Thread Alan Shutko
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >  What is _wrong_ with Corel?! Do they not see this gaping wide opportunity? They didn't exactly have good sales of WPO2k (probably because it was a buggy piece of junk) and decided it wasn't worth pursuing. And even before, they didn't have big sales of WP

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-23 Thread Kent West
Bill Benedetto wrote: James D Freels writes: James> I haven't used WordPerfect8 from Corel in a while and just discovered FWIW, I'd be VERY interested in getting WP8 to work in Woody. Does anyone have the steps necessary to do so? I haven't

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-23 Thread Victor Cain
I would certainly like to vote for the WP import/export in OO.org. Do I need to e-mail someone else? On Thursday 23 October 2003 01:20 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, James D. Freels wrote: > > I haven't used WordPerfect8 from Corel in a while and just discovered > > that it

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-23 Thread Ralph Alvy
Bill Benedetto wrote: > FWIW, I'd be VERY interested in getting WP8 to work in Woody. > Does anyone have the steps necessary to do so? I haven't had > real good luck so far (although I haven't looked at it in a few > weeks). Thanks! Did you apt-get install libc5 xpm4.7 xlib6 before at

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-23 Thread Bill Benedetto
>>> James D Freels writes: James> I haven't used WordPerfect8 from Corel in a while and just discovered James> that it no longer runs on my Debian/Sid system. I think it is because James> it requires the previous version of the libc package (woody). I have James> copied these files (foun

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 22 October 2003 09:20 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi James, > this might be a little OT but people in my local lugs met with the > OO.org guy (sam heiser) and mentioned that folks in law offices and > some other would switch to OO.o

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 22 October 2003 07:32 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 20:02, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:38:15PM -0400, James D. Freels > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > [snip] > > > Frankly, I'd recommend WP5.1 u

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread kmark
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, James D. Freels wrote: > I haven't used WordPerfect8 from Corel in a while and just discovered > that it no longer runs on my Debian/Sid system. I think it is because > it requires the previous version of the libc package (woody). I have > copied these files (found by ldd

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread kmark
y On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:38:15PM -0400, James D. Freels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I haven't used WordPerfect8 from Corel in a while and just discovered > > that it no longer runs on my Debian/Sid system. I think it is because > > it requires

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 20:02, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:38:15PM -0400, James D. Freels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snip] > > Frankly, I'd recommend WP5.1 under dosemu. Do you know where it's possible to get WP5.1 or WP6.0 disks, except on Ebay? -- --

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Greg Madden wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 02:38 pm, James D. Freels wrote: I haven't used WordPerfect8 from Corel in a while and just discovered that it no longer runs on my Debian/Sid system. I think it is because it requires the previous version of the libc package (woody). I have copied

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 22 October 2003 02:38 pm, James D. Freels wrote: > I haven't used WordPerfect8 from Corel in a while and just discovered > that it no longer runs on my Debian/Sid system. I think it is > because it requires the previous version of the lib

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:38:15PM -0400, James D. Freels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I haven't used WordPerfect8 from Corel in a while and just discovered > that it no longer runs on my Debian/Sid system. I think it is because > it requires the previous version of the libc package (woody). I ha

Re: Wordperfect8 missing libXpm.so.4

2001-04-19 Thread Doug Hespe
> > You need the xpm4.7 package. Or you could forget about wp8 and help > my nightmares go away. > Yes! It worked-- thanks again fellows! Cheerio, Doug.

Re: Wordperfect8 missing libXpm.so.4

2001-04-19 Thread Alan Shutko
Doug Hespe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry, Alan, but until I can learn to use LyX, troff, or LaTeX, the > maths papers I have to write for my students need Wordperfect8. Well, you could use SO and I couldn't support you, so I'd feel better.[1] You might also try to get ahold of Corel's Lin

Re: Wordperfect8 missing libXpm.so.4

2001-04-19 Thread Doug Hespe
> You need the xpm4.7 package. Or you could forget about wp8 and help > my nightmares go away. > Thanks Bently and Alan: I will give that a try. Sorry, Alan, but until I can learn to use LyX, troff, or LaTeX, the maths papers I have to write for my students need Wordperfect8. The latest version

Re: Wordperfect8 missing libXpm.so.4

2001-04-19 Thread Alan Shutko
Doug Hespe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm having trouble reinstalling Wordperfect8 on a Potato system. > It was running fine a couple of months ago after I installed libc5 > and xlib6 but it is now complaining You need the xpm4.7 package. Or you could forget about wp8 and help my nightmares

Re: Wordperfect8 missing libXpm.so.4

2001-04-19 Thread p
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:25:17PM +1000, Doug Hespe wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble reinstalling Wordperfect8 on a Potato system. > It was running fine a couple of months ago after I installed libc5 > and xlib6 but it is now complaining > /usr/local/wp8/wpbin/xwp: can't load library 'l

Re: wordperfect8

2000-02-16 Thread Robert L. Harris
Is there a .deb package for wp8 I can get with apt-get? Robert Thus spake paul ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > debs, > > > > i installed corel wp8 in my slink box. trying to run the app > > (wp8), i get this error message: ./xwp: can't load library > > 'libXpm.so.4' (which doesn't appear to exist

Re: wordperfect8

2000-02-16 Thread paul
> debs, > > i installed corel wp8 in my slink box. trying to run the app > (wp8), i get this error message: ./xwp: can't load library > 'libXpm.so.4' (which doesn't appear to exist in/as a deb > package). > > ...suggestions? > apt-get xpm4g This should work. library names can get quite infuri

Re: wordperfect8

2000-02-15 Thread kometboy
pplaw wrote: > > debs, > > i installed corel wp8 in my slink box. trying to run the app > (wp8), i get this error message: ./xwp: can't load library > 'libXpm.so.4' (which doesn't appear to exist in/as a deb > package). > > ...suggestions? > > ia, t. > -- > >> Bentley Taylor << >_

Re: wordperfect8

1999-01-31 Thread Ed Cogburn
Florence HENRY wrote: > > hello, > > I've just installed wp8 and, when I launch it, it says to me: > > can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' > I checked, and I DO NOT have this library... I've got 'libXpm.so.4.10' > and wp seems to need th release 4 and not 4.10... > > where can I find it? > > than