FC6 - Teaching A New Dog Old Tricks

[Leon Goldstein]

Net Llama! wrote:

>On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Leon Goldstein wrote:
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>>After reading discussion of Fedora Core x on this list, I got a FC6 DVD
>>in a copy of  Linux Magazine.
>>Installation was straightforward, although my display went blank right
>>after configuring sound.
>>The mouse pointer would flash on and off every few seconds, but after a
>>hard reboot  it is running OK.
>>I made things a bit more complicated by installing FC6 on a "lab rat"
>>running Solaris 10, and Solaris' GRUB chainloads it.
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>>As many old-time list members know, the only interest I have in a Linux
>>is running Word Perfect 8. ;-)
>>So, an FC'ers have any idea what it takes to get WP8 to run on it?
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>>And, yes, Lonnie, I did a google search.
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>I doubt any Linux distro released in the past 2-3 years is going to easily 
>run WP8 due to the ancient libs that it requires.  Have you tried to 
>install it?
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There are some success stories on the Corel WP8/L newsgroup getting 
hoary WP8 running on recent SuSE, Mandriva, and Ubuntu releases, 
although in these cases some hunting of old libs is required. 

I installed WP8.2 - the limited release from Corel 2 years ago of WP8.1 
repackaged with an installer script and a compatibility lib collection.  
The installation succeeded, although I had to manually mount the CD 
since FC6's AMD does not mount a CD executable.  The installer ran in 
the expected graphical mode, and the files are correctly installed, 
including the compatibility.  The WP8 icon even shows up on the 
desktop.  It starts, then dies, reporting the familiar segmentation fault.

I was just wondering if  any of the "old timers" had tried this.  OL 
included a very nice RPM of the original download WP8.  The download WP8 
version had only a few T1 fonts and no font installer, but there is a  
way to fix that.

BTW my "lab rat" is a Celeron 850 with 512 MB and FC6 runs surprisingly 
snappily on it. 

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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