-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 03 April 2003 09:02 am, Teemu Luojola wrote: > A couple of years ago Corel gave free downloads of WordPerfect 8.0 for > linux. I still have the original packet, and I'm trying to install it in > woody. That is not, however, so simple. WP can only be installed with > the Runme script provided in the packet, and it requires older libraries > like libc5 and such. Woody has newer ones, and this results in > unsuccesful installation. > > From a site concerning WP8 installation issues, I read that I should > (temporarily? Does only installation need these libraries, or are they > needed in runtime?) copy the older libraries in the place of the newer > etc. etc., but since I'm not quite sure about how safe it is, I'm trying > to find another way to install it first. What do you think: > > - Is it safe to temporarily downgrade the libraries through Debian > package management system, like apt-get? Is the process like this: > downgrade libraries, install WP, upgrade libraries again? > > - Should I install one older linux distribution, which naturally has > these needed libraries (I have unused hard disk space), mount my present > partition in some directory, install WP in a directory I prefer, and > after reboot into Woody start using WP without problems? > > - I have a live cd of one older RedHat based distribution (I earlier > used a similar distribution, and WP installed without problems), but if > I boot from that cd, I have difficulties to mount my hard disk. Is it > possible to mount it somehow, because this sounds the easiest way to > install WP? > > Has anyone experiences in installing WP8 into a system which normally > uses libc6 and other newer libraries? > > Teemu Luojola
I run WP8 that came with Corel Linux so it is a .deb package. Woody has all the depends for WP8, libc5, type1inst if you have the fonts, and a couple more that i don;'t recall from memory. If you get a prompt for a missing depend use apt-get to istall it. BTW, libc5 co-exists peacefully with newer libraries. - -- Greg Madden -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+jKUQk7rtxKWZzGsRAo4DAKCkXlUmLMhOVEUcJG/T4+BMVlvAagCbBnZ1 CSXB+xvD2AcL33Y0LEGTgEo= =g3v/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
