Re: WordPerfect doesn't run

[Jakub Jelinek <jakub redhat com>]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 03:02:03PM -0500, s-luppescu@uchicago.edu wrote:
> After long hours of futzing with my XF86Config file I've finally gotten my
> middle mouse button to work. I must say xf86cfg needs a lot of work still.
> 
> The problem now is I can't get WordPerfect to run. I tried the free version,
> but the install script goes totally bananas now (it didn't used to), unpacks tar
> files to weird places and then can't find where it put them. 
> 
> I also have a copy of the full version (I won a copy of Corel Linux and
> converted wp from the .deb to .rpm with alien), but that behaves extremely
> strangely. When I run it I get this:
> 
>  xwp
> /usr/bin/xwp: /usr/lib/wp8/wpbin/xwp: No such file or directory
> /usr/bin/xwp: /usr/lib/wp8/wpbin/xwp: No such file or directory
> 
> The executable is just a little script:
> 
> [sl70@musuko:~/.gnupg] <14:58:41> 1064  ->> less `which xwp`
> #!/bin/sh
> set -a
> PATH=/usr/lib/wp8/wpbin:/usr/lib/wp8/shbin10:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
> set +a
> exec xwp "$@"
> 
> And while it complains it can't find the main program, here it is:
> [sl70@musuko:~/.gnupg] <14:59:03> 1065  ->> ll /usr/lib/wp8/wpbin/xwp
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      8161760 Nov  2  1999 /usr/lib/wp8/wpbin/xwp
> 
> Or is /usr/lib/wp8/wpbin/xwp failing to find a file?

Can you:
file /usr/lib/wp8/wpbin/xwp
ldd /usr/lib/wp8/wpbin/xwp
?
Thanks.

	Jakub