on Mon, Nov 11, 2002, Haralambos Geortgilakis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hi All, > > anyone hereabouts have joy getting either or both of these old beasts of > verbal burden up & running on Debian 3.0? > > If so, any trix for one new to Debian & whose old Tux trix fail....
Possibly at Rick Moen's excellent "WordPerfect on Linux FAQ"
http://www.linuxmafia.com/wpfaq/
Specifically:
http://www.linuxmafia.com/wpfaq/problems.html#WONTINSTALL
3.1. WP 8.0 DPE for Linux installs but won't start on my Linux
distribution. How do I fix that?
WP 8.0 for Linux was distributed as a dynamically linked binary,
linked against the libc (C library), libm (the related math
library), and ld-linux.so.1.9.*/ld.so-1.9.*, the dynamic-linker
software current on Linux at that time. Those old libraries are
often omitted from current Linux distributions. In such cases, you
need to retrofit those libraries. (You can see the exact library
links by running "ldd" = list library dependencies against the
WordPerfect "xwp" main executable file.) You need to install
ld-linux.so.1.9.* and ld.so-1.9.* (both usually in an ld.so
package), libc of some version from 5.3.12 through 5.4.46, and
libm.so.5.* (both usually in the libc5 package). Don't forget to
ensure the libraries' directory is in /etc/ld.so.conf, and then
re-run /sbin/ldconfig.
What binary packages these libs and dynamic loader will occupy
differs between distributions. If in doubt, documents linked from
http://linux-sxs.org/edit.html may give details for your
distribution.
Under Debian, the appropriate oldlibs packages may provide joy.
Peace.
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