"James R. Lunsford" wrote:
>
> Hello all. I installed Wordperfect 8 into /usr/local/wp8 and there's
> no xwp file to be found anywhere on my system. The only thing that was
> really out of the ordinary in my installation was that it didn't run
> under X. I got some kind of error message and it ran in an xterm
> window. Anyone have any clues as to why I can't run wordperfect on my
> system? I saw a message about placing DISPLAY=":0.0" into my profile or
> one of the bash files to eliminate some problems, but I don't know if
> that will help.
>
Hmmm, I believe I installed wp8 to /usr/local/ too. The xwp binary is
found on
my system at "/usr/local/lib/xwp/wpbin/xwp". Lord knows why they made it so
complicated.
I also read what John said about security. I don't think this is
necessary. I
installed wp8 as root, but use a normal user to actually use it. No special
tricks were necessary. As for calling the binary, I added this to my bash
startup:
xwp () {
pushd /usr/local/lib/xwp/wpbin
./xwp
popd
}
export xwp
My normal user just types 'xwp' in an xterm to run it.
--
Ed C.
