Re: WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux - Deluxe

"Derek Murphy (Simba 64 bit)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.ottawa.general
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On Sat, 30 Oct 2010, Dave wrote:

> I have my boxed set of  WPO2000Linux that I'd like to install on this
> Fedora 12 system, but have been unsuccessful so far.
>
> When I try
> rpm -Uvh
> /media/WPO2000Linux_Deluxe-765/dists/redhat/i386/wine-wpo2000-glibc-2.0-2000.03.13.12.01-1.i386.rpm
>
> I stumble over thing such as
> error: Failed dependencies:
>     libncurses.so.4 is needed by

You are probably better off to see if OpenOffice will open the old files 
you've got.

You *could* install an old distro in VirtualBox, and then install it 
there...

If you *really* want to run WPO2K on your modern distro, you'll need to 
compile and install the old ncurses library, but expect there to be MANY 
more missing libraries with old versions - it was built against what were, 
even *then*, older versions of libraries. I think I remember it using a 
soon-to-be-superceeded version of glibc, even.

I had missong libs hiccups like that when installing on Slackware, if I 
remember rightly, but patience is a (SysAdmin) virtue... once I compiled 
and installed them so that all the libs were there, it worked.

I fondly remember buying it at an OCLUG meeting - it was the FIRST non-OS 
Linux program I was ever able to actually buy. I think I even have it 
kicking around my basement somewhere.

- -- 
                  Derek T. Murphy <[email protected]>
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