FC6 - Teaching A New Dog Old Tricks

[Voigt, John C.]

On Friday, January 05, 2007 1:10 PM, Leon Goldstein
[metapsych at earthlink.net eloquently noted: 

<awkward snippage - gawd I hate Outhouse>

> I have archived SuSE shlibs5 (shlibs5-2001.7.29-40) as well
> as type1inst, groff-1 and imwheel from IIRC SuSE 8.  I have
> also acquired the Mandriva libs.  I'm hoping someone might be able to
> point me to the FC6 libs I need.

Not sure on this one. I currently have shlibs5-2001.7.30-209 on my
workstation here (SuSE Linux 10.0) I probably have the src.rpm as well.
It appears that they were at least offered for SuSE 9.1.  It would
probably be worth keeping the source available somewhere for future
needs, although it may become increasingly difficult to compile - I
don't know IANAP.

> With SuSE I think you must install shlibs5 with YAST for a
> proper setup, e.g. editing /etc/ld.so.conf to include the shlibs5.

IIRC, I just installed the rpm from the command line, and then ran
SuSEconfig (and ldconfig -v to be sure) and it worked. I don't recall
having to mess with ld.so.conf. My ld.so.conf looks like:

/usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw95
/usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d
/usr/X11R6/lib
/usr/i486-linux/lib
/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib=libc5
/usr/i486-linux-libc6/lib=libc6
/usr/i486-linuxaout/lib
/usr/i386-suse-linux/lib
/usr/local/lib
/usr/openwin/lib
/opt/kde/lib
/opt/kde2/lib
/opt/kde3/lib
/opt/gnome/lib
/opt/gnome2/lib
include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf

so it looks like they've made provisions for the old stuff - so far.

> WPD file conversion can be tricky.  Even WP9 - component of
> the now comatose WPO 2000/L - doesn't always preserve
> formatting.

This is true. Most of my stuff is WP8 or older, and not terribly
sophisticated, so I didn't have too many problems so far. OTOH, even
switching between M$ Word versions isn't peachy either. 

> I've found StarOffice 8/L to be more useful,
> since it can use the original WP T1 fonts and now has a WP
> import filter.

I have been wanting to convert everything to OO.org, but it's sooooo
much easier to just stick with WP for now......[impending loss of data
doom sequence...3..2..1].

HTH,

John V.
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