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Date:      Wed, 14 Apr 1999 12:09:49 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, rknebel@uplink.net
Subject:   Re: wordperfect
Message-ID:  <19990414120949.C81628@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199904132332.TAA62253@lakes.dignus.com>; from Thomas David Rivers on Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 07:32:33PM -0400
References:  <19990413192443.A59114@rknebel.uplink.net> <199904132332.TAA62253@lakes.dignus.com>

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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
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