FC6 - Teaching A New Dog Old Tricks

[Leon Goldstein]

Voigt, John C. wrote:

>On Friday, January 05, 2007 1:10 PM, Leon Goldstein
>[metapsych at earthlink.net eloquently noted: 
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><awkward snippage - gawd I hate Outhouse>
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>>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.
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>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.
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It is still available: 
http://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/suse/9.1/i386/suse/i586/shlibs5-2001.7.30-209.i586.html

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>>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.
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>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:
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>/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
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>so it looks like they've made provisions for the old stuff - so far.
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I suppose running SuSE config and ldconfig manually does what YAST 
accomplishes in making the system recognize libc5.

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>>WPD file conversion can be tricky.  Even WP9 - component of
>>the now comatose WPO 2000/L - doesn't always preserve
>>formatting.
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>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. 
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>>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.
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>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].
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Same here: almost two decades of WP documents.  

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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