Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 09:52:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect Office2000 for Linux--Installable? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005070944370.46161-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005062348450.69002-100000@home.offwhite.net>
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What you so beautifully outline, Brennan, installs WordPerfect8, the editor, not Office2000. I installed WordPerfect 8 a while ago. What I want to install is the office suite that I bought in a box. Annelise On Sat, 6 May 2000, Brennan W Stehling wrote: > Sure. Go read... > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/editors/wordperfect/pkg/DESCR > > Then go to... > > /usr/ports/editors/wordperfect/ > > And install the port. You may have to go download the file from Corel if > you do not have it already, the put it in /usr/ports/distfiles where the > installation routine will find it. > > Then you do... > > make > make install > > You are all set then Annelise. It is too simple. > > > Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin > projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com > > Microsoft: Will you get a macro virus today? > > On Sat, 6 May 2000, Annelise Anderson wrote: > > > Is it possible to install WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux on > > FreeBSD 4.0 (Release or Stable)? > > > > The "setup" binary on the cdrom was unrecognized, so I copied it > > to the hard drive and branded it. It then ran, but couldn't find the > > files since it was looking in relative paths. > > > > I therefore copied the entire cdrom to the hard drive and again > > brandelfed the setup binary. It now claims it needs glibc6 or higher > > and can't find /var/db/rpm. > > > > So, maybe I should just give up? This is part of the 10 percent > > of linux software that FreeBSD doesn't run? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Annelise > > > > > > > > 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
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