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Date:      Wed, 14 Apr 1999 07:24:25 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>
To:        grog@lemis.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, rivers@dignus.com, rknebel@uplink.net
Subject:   Re: wordperfect
Message-ID:  <199904141124.HAA65728@lakes.dignus.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990414120949.C81628@lemis.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.
> 

 Sure...  sounds like a good tact...

 In this case, I don't know if anything is wrong with it; I'll just
note that it likely needs to do very little.

	- Dave Rivers -


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