From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 2 6:22: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83C8714C1C for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 06:21:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11ieon-0006UV-00; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 14:21:49 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA58091; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 14:21:48 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 14:21:48 +0000 (GMT) From: J McKitrick To: Rick Knebel Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: worrdperfect In-Reply-To: <19991102091604.A368@rknebel.uplink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG First of all, i know you need to run a system utility called brandelf on the WP executable. And are you sure you have linux emulation enabled in the new installation? -jm On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Rick Knebel wrote: >HI, > >Hi, >i had wordperfect running great in 3.2. >i upgraded to 3.3 and when I tried to start WP I would get this message. > > Please Wait .ELF binary type not known. Use "brandelf" to brand it. >Abort trap > > >I deinstalled it and then reinstalled it but on make install of the port I >get the same message. >When it starts the install it says it cannot use the graphical interface and >then tries to proceed with a text install, but the above line about brandelf >keeps repeating inself. > >The installation says it is completed but WP will not start up because there >is no xwp in the directory. >So obviously the installation was not complete. > >Could anyone give me a hand? > > >I tried searching the archives and did not find anything. > >Thanks >Rick > >-- >Rick Knebel >rknebel@uplink.net >http://rknebel.uplink.net > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message