From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 3 14:48:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.wxs.nl (smtp05.wxs.nl [195.121.6.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BEE2150C9 for ; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 14:48:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.197.234]) by smtp05.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA6553; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 23:48:16 +0200 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA54047; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 23:48:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 23:48:37 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Rick Knebel Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wordperfect Message-ID: <19991003234836.D35757@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <99100317312503.00318@rknebel.uplink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <99100317312503.00318@rknebel.uplink.net> Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On [19991003 23:46], Rick Knebel (rknebel@uplink.net) wrote: >i downloaded the wordperfect program to the distfiles and am attempting to >install the port. > >It seems like it is downloading quite a few redhat 5.2 rpms as part of the >install. WordPerfect does not run natively under FreeBSD. Hence it needs the Linuxlator in order to run since it is a native Linux package. So yes it is normal that it fetches a couple of MB's of Linux stuff. HTH, -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message