Re: SuSE 7.2 and WP8

"M.B. Schiekel" wrote:

M.B. Schiekel on Thu, 05 Jul 2001 11:24:45 +0100 in corel.wpoffice.wordperfect8-linux:

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well, I worked with SuSE 7.1 (Linux-Kernel 2.4.0, XFree86 4.0.2, KDE 2.0.1) and WP8 (light) and everything was fine. Now I updated to the SuSE 7.2 (Linux-Kernel 2.4.4., XFree86 4.0.3, KDE 2.1.2) - you know - never touch a running system - now when I try to start the xwp I get the errormessage: "can´t load library libXpm.so.4" (that´s a link to ...4.11).

Hallo everybody, some time ago I reported here a solution for the SuSE 7.2 / WP8 problem - the error of the SuSE 7.2 is, that the package shlibs5 (with the old libc5) does no more contain a libc5 compatible libXpm.so.4 . My solution was, to install a libXpm.so.4 from a SuSE 6.x version.

Now Ed March kindly informed me, that he had found an even simpler solution, because the SuSE 7.2 has a file (or strictly speaking a sym-link) with name libXpm_wx.so, that seems to be the old libXpm.so.4 So even all *non-linux-gurus* have a real chance to start xwp ;-)

First please install with Yast or Yast2 the package shlibs5 - if not already installed. Next start a terminal and do the following: cd /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib ln -s libXpm_wx.so libXpm.so.4 cd

Well, I tried this and it´s functioning. Kind regards - Bernhard

-- M.B. Schiekel: http://home.t-online.de/home/mb.schiekel/

Bernard, I tried to link libXpm_wx.so to libXpm.so.4 and this is what I get: jozien:/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib# ls -l libXpm* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jul 27 15:42 libXpm.so -> libXpm.so.4.10 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jul 27 15:42 libXpm.so.4 -> libXpm.so.4.10 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 53516 Nov 8 1999 libXpm.so.4.10 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jul 27 15:42 libXpm_wx.so -> libXpm_wx.so.1.67 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 65400 Nov 8 1999 libXpm_wx.so.1.67 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- jozien:/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib# ln -s libXpm_wx.so libXpm.so.4 ln: libXpm.so.4: File exists There is a link to libXpm.so.4. Should I delete the link? What happens to libXpm.so.4.10? ============================================================================== I have another problem: jozien:/opt/wp8/wpbin# ls -l total 7928 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2494 Mar 20 1999 README -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2929 Mar 20 1999 README.address -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3265 Mar 20 1999 README.copy -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 758 Mar 20 1999 README.demo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1161 Mar 20 1999 README.errata -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 687 Mar 20 1999 README.icon -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1777 Mar 20 1999 README.install -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13604 Mar 20 1999 README.lic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 246 Mar 20 1999 README.support -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1411 Mar 20 1999 README.wpmagic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1994 Mar 20 1999 README.wpsahelp -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2488 Mar 20 1999 wpmerge -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8008636 Mar 20 1999 xwp -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 31760 Mar 20 1999 xwpsahlp jozien:/opt/wp8/wpbin# ldd /opt/wp8/wpbin/xwp ldd: can't execute /opt/wp8/wpbin/xwp (No such file or directory) jozien:/opt/wp8/wpbin# ======================================================================= I tried this in a terminal window: jozien@jozien:~$ /opt/wp8/wpbin/xwp & [1] 735 jozien@jozien:~$ bash: /opt/wp8/wpbin/xwp: No such file or directory [1]+ Exit 127 /opt/wp8/wpbin/xwp jozien@jozien:~$ ./xwp bash: ./xwp: No such file or directory jozien@jozien:~$ sh /opt/wp8/wpbin/xwp /opt/wp8/wpbin/xwp: /opt/wp8/wpbin/xwp: cannot execute binary file jozien@jozien:~$ ------------------------------------------------------ I have shlibs5 installed from SuSE 6.3 and I am using: ftp://ftp.linux.com/pub/mirrors/caldera/old-products/col2.2/col/install/RPMS/WordPerfect-8.0-7.i386.rpm I have these same problems in both libranet 1.9.1 and SuSE 7.1 jozien