FC6 - Teaching A New Dog Old Tricks

[Leon Goldstein]

Myles Green wrote:

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>So, then it's a matter of preference then. OK, I can dig that. Carry on.
>Sorry for the interruption...
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Our preference drives (some of) us to considerable effort to keep this 
old standby viable.

Another feature WP8 has is "make it fit."  There is no other Linux word 
processor with this feature; at best (or worst) MS Word running under 
CrossOver or VM Ware is the only other option.

Anyhow, while writing this I had an inspiration and checked the SxS 
how-to's.  I found a post from someone who got WP8 to run in FC1.  His 
fix was merely to install ld.so-1.9.5-13.  Monkey see, monkey do.

I found the RPM an installed it; had to use old fashioned terminal rpm 
-Uvh since on my install the package manager (pirut) complains I have no 
network connection: "cannot find a valid baseurl for repo:core."

No joy, unfortunately.

While I'm warming to FC6,  the lack of old faithful Kpackage manager is 
a bit of a jolt.  However, I did find a package install tool in the 
Gnome desktop; it confirmed my ld.so rpm was installed.  It seems to me 
that FC pays more attention to the Gnome desktop than to KDE.  (Not 
really complaining, mind you.  The FC6 Gnome desktop appears to be 
nicely put together.)

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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