Help installing Corel WPO2000

Naughtyus · Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2003 4:34 pm Post subject: Help installing Corel WPO2000

I'm trying to set this up on my Gentoo box, but the setup file will not let the installation start. It gives me an error telling me that I need a package manager

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Ralphus Maximus · Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2003 6:55 pm Post subject:

The last time I set up Wordperfect, I had to use RPM. Maybe that's that its looking for?

Naughtyus · Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2003 9:34 pm Post subject:

Thank you, that fixed that problem.

Now the error is telling me that I don't have libc6 installed. I do of course, as well as lib-compat.

Naughtyus · Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2003 12:07 am Post subject:

Since the error is now that libc6 (for Redhat glibc) version 2.0 or higher cannot be found , I'm assuming that the WP cd is looking for access to glibc in a different location than where Gentoo stores it. Does this sound right? Where should I make a symlink to to get this to work?

Ralphus Maximus · Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2003 3:39 pm Post subject:

Naughtyus · Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2003 4:14 am Post subject:

Somebody must be able to tell me

Ralphus Maximus · Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2003 4:48 am Post subject:

Just a thought, does the version of RPM you're using have a switch to show you the directory tree of the package?

I remember that Mandrake's graphical RPM had a clicky box to show the tree and where the package expected things to go.

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Naughtyus · Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2003 7:14 am Post subject:

Hrmm.. You think I can install WP9 just with the RPMs on the CD, and not through the 'setup' file?

I'll try to find a switch for that, and see if some of the rpms tell me where glibc is supposed to be.

Thanks for the idea

Naughtyus · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 7:53 am Post subject:

I'm at this one again...
I have no idea how I would find that out in RPM, as I've pretty much just learned Linux through the use of Gentoo.

If I try to install WP just with RPM, I get the following error on the first package:

northern · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 8:42 am Post subject:

RPM will look in the RPM database for any dependencies and will bork if it cant find them. Seeing as you installed most of you system from source the RPM database is gonna be pretty empty.

The RPM errors your getting are just RPM saying "you need to install these before I can continue". If you sure you've got the dependencies RPM needs to install WP already installed then you can run 'rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps wp.rpm', which 'should' install WP. However, if you still can' start WP then an 'rpm -e WP' will delete WP from your system.

Hth

Naughtyus · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 6:40 pm Post subject:

Okay, I've tried installing each .rpm file individually and it didn't work. Will installing the dependancies via rpm ruin the rest of my system?

northern · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 10:49 pm Post subject:

If each needed RPM installed correctly then you should be able to install WP.
If some/all of the RPM(s) did not install then WP will probably not install properly.

By installing the RPM dependencies your only gonna have problems if you already have the libraries installed but not via RPM,
eg
say you have gtk installed from source, well RPM wont know about that, so if you then go and install the RPM version of gtk you could run into problems, so before you install any RPM's make sure you haven't already got them installed from source.

Like i said above, you can install any RPM with the --nodeps --force options, but dont go and install libutil.rpm (for eg) if you've already got libutil installed from the source gentoo package.

RPM's can be uninstalled with the rpm -e command as mentioned in my previous post.

When you say

northern · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 10:53 pm Post subject:

Just as an afterthought, you can find out where RPM has installed stuff with rpm -qil whatever.rpm