Installing WordPerfect 8 Under Mandrake?

AntiNorm asks: "I recently installed Mandrake 8.0, and after taking much time to get it working, I found that the free version of WordPerfect 8 would not install. The same thing happened under Redhat 7.0, although it installed and worked fine under RH 6.2. It appears that the binaries (wpinstc and wpinstg) that are called by the installation scripts are unable to find a particular file or library that they need, but I haven't been able to figure out anything beyond that. Has anyone else had this problem? If so, is there a way to get around it?" Update: 05/10 04:27 PM by C : Another similar question hit the bin, today, except this one is about Wordperfect 2000. Are the same problems from WP8 inherited in the latest version? Read more, below.

eadint asks: "I've been using Linux since 1996 and about a year and a half ago when Corel Office 2000 for :inux was released I finally got rid of my Windows partition and started using Linux as my sole operating system. Recently I upgraded to Red Hat 7.1 and I haven't been able to install it on my computer. I'm hoping for some advice on this and also hoping that I don't have to downgrade my OS. I can definitely notice a difference in speed with 7.1"

Comments

Re:yeah, use rh 6.2

[Tet]

"strace binaryname" to see what they are _doing_ when they say what they say, and "ldd binaryname" to see what (dynamic) libs it wants

That would be the obvious plan of attack, but it doesn't work. ldd complains with the same error as you get when trying to run the binary directly. Similarly, strace fails because it can't get as far as trying to exec the target binary.

I solved this problem some time ago for RH7.0 by installing some RPMs from RH6.2. From memory, I think it was the glibc-2.1.3 RPM, and possibly one other.

You need libc5 (like from RedHat 6.2)

[Chronoforge]

I tried to install WP under both RedHat 7.0 and 7.1. Lo and behold, it failed. The problem is that 7.0 and 7.1 don't include libc5. This is damn stupid and should be considered a bug.

The solution for me was to install two rpms from RedHat 6.2. Specifically, libc-5.3.12-31.i386.rpm and ld.so-1.9.5-13.i386.rpm. They installed for me without any complaining under both RH 7.0 and 7.1. Nothing needed beyond "rpm -ivh".

This is also nice for my little old notebook, as I can now run Netscape 3 instead of 4.

I don't have a Mandrake box to play with, so I don't know if those two RH rpms will install, but Mandrake should have libc5 rpms in one of their older distributions.

Want more info? Mail me at drr@chpc.utah.edu

Re:You need libc5 (like from RedHat 6.2)

[AntiNorm]

Downloaded both of these RPMs from a RedHat mirror, and they installed without trouble. WP worked perfectly after that. Thanks for the help.

BTW, in case anybody else out there is having trouble with this, I had to modify install.wp so that, instead of looking at the output of uname -r, it would just look at the string "2.4.3". Apparently, the tail end of custom versions like 2.4.3-20mdk makes install.wp barf. If you are getting an "Integer expression expected" error, this is the likely cause.

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Re:You need libc5 (like from RedHat 6.2)

[AntiNorm]

Here are some links to the necessary RPMs:
ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/redhat/redha t/redhat-6.2-en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/libc-5.3.12-31 .i386.rpm
ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/redhat/redha t/redhat-6.2-en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ld.so-1.9.5-13 .i386.rpm

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Yes

[bconway]

There are updated install scripts on Corel's site. I don't recall if the problem is with any glibc 2.2-based distros or something else, but there's documentation there to go along with it, as well.