Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 14:55:19 -0400 (EDT) From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> To: freebsd-emulators@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: rpm and WordPerfect Office 2000. Message-ID: <200004161855.OAA10732@office.tor.velocet.net>
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FreeBSD Linux emulation is, at this point, quite mature, IMHO. There are a few cracks in the installtion, though. Recently, I was trying to install WordPerfect Office 2000, and there were a few failure modes that gave me trouble. The first was that we had /usr/compat/linux/bin/rpm in addition to /usr/local/bin/rpm. It's difficult and non-obvious how to launch the installers which may use shells such that they find the right rpm. The FreeBSD-compiled rpm doesn't know about it's own installation without arguments, so the WordPerfect installer would fail because rpm didn't know /bin/sh is installed. It makes me wonder if we shouldn't add jail-like semantics to Linux emulator... Anyways... has anyone else try installing WordPerfect Office 2000? If I install it on our debian systems around the office, it's not configured correctly to run on our rpm-based system (or so it seems). I've got paradox to run, and I've got Railroad Tycoon II to run (included with WP Office), but wordperfect itself won't run. Wine crashes on an IOCTL (posted yesterday). Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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