Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 23:36:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> Cc: freebsd-emulators@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rpm and WordPerfect Office 2000 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005152251580.82736-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <14624.35092.234693.852141@trooper.velocet.net>
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On Mon, 15 May 2000, David Gilbert wrote: > >>>>> "Annelise" == Annelise Anderson <andrsn@ANDRSN.STANFORD.EDU> writes: > > Annelise> I linked /var/lib to /uar/compat/linux/var/lib, which is > Annelise> where on rpm is. This it found, I think. > > Annelise> But it complainst that its make for a different operating > Annelise> system, so I can't get it to install on 4.0-STABLE. What > Annelise> did you do? > > Annelise> It also wants glibc 2.0 or 2.1 or compatible. > > Annelise> There seems to be no place to give it options and the setup > Annelise> executable is a binary. > > Someone was talking about patching the linux emulation to prefer (say) > loading shells, etc from the emulation tree. IIRC, the install script > is "install.sh" ... I ran /usr/compat/linux/bin/bash install.sh > ... which caused it to choose binaries like > /usr/compat/linux/bin/uname, etc. > > I think I also got further with the installation when I copied the cd > to disk and did some editing on the install script, but I forget what > I was doing. > > Whatever wine is doing is not 100% compatible with the FreeBSD > emulation, though. I can get Quattro Pro to run, but it malfunctions > in many ways. Word perfect won't run --- it dies trying to play some > sound. > > Since Corel Linux won't run under VMWare, I'm going to try to get > debian installed on VMWare to install this stuff and at least see it > running. > > I must say that I'm dissapointed that I can't run it. > > Dave. My cdrom for WordPerfect Office2000 for Linux Standard doesn't have an install.sh script; it's got a setup binary. I got a little further making a bunch of symbolic links in /var (e.g., bin -> /usr/compat/linux/bin) and putting /var/bin at the beginning of my path; aliasing sh to /var/bin/sh; rebuilding the rpm database with the rpm in /usr/compat/linux and giving it a full path to the database (I move the other one out of the way at least temporarily). A lot of docs installed but I can't find any binaries; lots of errors that it couldn't find /etc/mtab (of course it couldn't find /etc in /usr/compat/linux, as this wasn't symbolically linked, but there's no mtab there anyway); and quite a lot of archives it failed to unpack; difficulty setting symbolic links from from /etc/rc.d stuff to other places in /etc, having to do with fonts; "can't find shell function libraries to start server"; and failure to unpack a number of archives that are probably important to things running. Giving up :) Annelise To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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