Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 15:15:39 -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.4.10.10005151511560.81768-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <14586.2094.557007.707785@trooper.velocet.net>
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I linked /var/lib to /uar/compat/linux/var/lib, which is where on rpm is. This it found, I think. But it complainst that its make for a different operating system, so I can't get it to install on 4.0-STABLE. What did you do? It also wants glibc 2.0 or 2.1 or compatible. There seems to be no place to give it options and the setup executable is a binary. Annelise On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, David Gilbert wrote: > FreeBSD Linux emulation is, at this point, quite mature, IMHO. There > are a few cracks in the installtion, though. Recently, I was trying > to install WordPerfect Office 2000, and there were a few failure modes > that gave me trouble. > > The first was that we had /usr/compat/linux/bin/rpm in addition to > /usr/local/bin/rpm. It's difficult and non-obvious how to launch the > installers which may use shells such that they find the right rpm. > The FreeBSD-compiled rpm doesn't know about it's own installation > without arguments, so the WordPerfect installer would fail because rpm > didn't know /bin/sh is installed. > > It makes me wonder if we shouldn't add jail-like semantics to Linux > emulator... > > Anyways... has anyone else try installing WordPerfect Office 2000? If > I install it on our debian systems around the office, it's not > configured correctly to run on our rpm-based system (or so it seems). > > I've got paradox to run, and I've got Railroad Tycoon II to run > (included with WP Office), but wordperfect itself won't run. Wine > crashes on an IOCTL (posted yesterday). > > Dave. > > -- > ============================================================================ > |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | > |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | > |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | > =========================================================GLO================ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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