From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 14 4:27: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.vnet.net (smtp2.vnet.net [166.82.1.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6480615078 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 04:26:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from dignus.com (ponds.vnet.net [166.82.177.48]) by smtp2.vnet.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAA18888; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 07:25:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes.dignus.com [10.0.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.9.2/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA02007; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 07:24:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.9.2/8.6.9) id HAA65728; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 07:24:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 07:24:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199904141124.HAA65728@lakes.dignus.com> To: grog@lemis.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, rivers@dignus.com, rknebel@uplink.net Subject: Re: wordperfect In-Reply-To: <19990414120949.C81628@lemis.com> 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. > 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 - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message