From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 13 19:42:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B89414C9B for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 19:42:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA19327; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 12:09:51 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id MAA00634; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 12:09:50 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990414120949.C81628@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 12:09:49 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Thomas David Rivers , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, rknebel@uplink.net Subject: Re: wordperfect References: <19990413192443.A59114@rknebel.uplink.net> <199904132332.TAA62253@lakes.dignus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199904132332.TAA62253@lakes.dignus.com>; from Thomas David Rivers on Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 07:32:33PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 13 April 1999 at 19:32:33 -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I tried to install wordperfect from the ports without success. >> First the graphical install will not come up and it tries the text version. >> It does alot of things but int the end I have all the directories in >> /usr/local/lib/corel but they are empty. >> I also get these messages about not recognizing the elf type. That's the reason. You need to install Linux emulation first. >> Any Idea's. >> >> I have plenty of disk space. > > First, make sure you're using version 3.1. > > Second, don't use the port. The install works just fine if you > use Corel's instructions. (At least, it did for me.) The canonical answer is "use the port". If there's something wrong with it, you should report it, not tell people not to use it. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message