newbie question: Word Perfect installation

ME dugan at libwais.sonoma.edu
Tue Feb 22 18:06:19 PST 2000


After looking over what everyone else has posted so thoroughly, I only
have 1 thing to add:   :-)

If WP installed new loadable libraries on your system, then you may need
to log in as root and run :

ldconfig

then log out of root, and the user account, log back in with your user
account and then try running the new application. 

(Never used WP install, or WP on Linux, so I do not know what is
installed, or where.)

Also, if new man pages were added, you may want to run

mandb

to update the list of internal cached named man pages.

(You would think that they would do these as part of their installation
program, if they were needed, but better to test it anyway.)

-ME

On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, E Frank Ball III wrote:
> Subject: Re: newbie question: Word Perfect installation
> } This weekend I tried installing Word Perfect 8 (from the CD, with 
> } manual) into a TurboLinux in an old pentium; Turbo likes AfterStep, 
> } which I am eager to learn. Installation seems OK (it complained, 
> } Linux 2.2.12 not certified. Continue? (I answered yes)). BUT 
> } attempting to start, (./xwp) in /usr/local/wp8/wpbin, I get the 
> } response:
> } 	can't load library libXt.so.6.
> } Looking in /usr/XR6/lib, with ls-l, I see:
> } -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 338157 Sep 8 libXt.so.6.0 and
> } lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 14     Feb18 libXt.so.6 - libXt.so.6.0
> } (if I have copied my notes correctly!)
> } Why can't it find it? is a link missing or wrong?
> } Today I tried installing the same CD in another machine with SUSE 
> } (KDE desktop), and it works, fine. (Although installation complained, 
> } not certified for 2.2.5.) Now I don't need both (and don't want to 
> } register both), but I would like to get it running with AfterStep, if 
> } I can.
> 
> You don't say which versions of Turbo and SuSE you have, but from the
> kernel versions I'd guess Turbo 4.0 and SuSE 6.1.  The SuSE install is
> older and used older libraries.  Do a locate "libXt.so.6".  On my Turbo
> 4.0 system I get:
> 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0
> /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6
> /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6.0
> /usr/i386-linuxaout/lib/libXt.so.6.0
> /usr/i386-linuxaout/lib/libXt.so.6
> 
> Do you have the libc5-compat libraries installed?  Package (rpm)
> libc5compat-X11-1.0-1.  After you install it check /etc/ld.so.conf:
> 
> [root at zouave /etc]# cat ld.so.conf
> /usr/X11R6/lib
> /usr/lib/libc5-compat
> /usr/i386-linuxaout/lib
>  
> Make sure the /usr/lib/libc5-compat line is there, and do a "ldconfig -v"
> so the system knows where to find the new libraries.
> 
> No garantees, but it's worth a try.  I don't have WP on this machine, so
> no help there.
> 
>    E Frank Ball                frankb at efball.com
>    work: (707) 794-4168        home: (707) 538-3693 
> 




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