A late reply, but in the weekend I've got some more time... On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 Alain Barthélemy wrote:
Has anybody succeeded in having WP9 worked on SuSE-8.2.
Alas... installing WPO2000 on newer distro's is pretty much a lost cause (to cite someone on the WPO2000/Linux newsgroup). The reason is that due to the changes in GLibc-2.3.2, Wine had to be rewritten to a large extent for compatibility reasons. WPO2000 depends on CorelWine, which is a special version of Wine, but CorelWine is not worked on any more since WPO2000 for Linux is an abandoned project...
I can of course reinstall SuSE-7.3 but SuSE-8.2 is so much better
Today's harddiscs are big enough to easily install 7.3 _alongside_ of 8.2, I'm planning to install 7.1 alongside of 8.2. Only problem is to get my Ati Radeon 9500 to work with 7.1. Upgrading XFree86 and/or installing the Ati driver... phew, no newbie stuff. On the other hand, quite a number of people are running the Win version of WPO on Win4Lin, which appears to be working very well.
It has been impossible to install WP9 on SuSE since version 8.1. Problem of fonttastic?
It should be possible to install WP9 on 8.1, I have seen people reporting doing so successfully. In an earlier post you wrote:
I saw a Web-page that talks apparently of an equivalent problem but it is in german and I can not translate. Somebody od SuSE can maybe tell me if there is a way to have WordPerfect work with SuSE-8.2.
Nach der Installation von WordPerfect2000 unter SuSE 8.1 Professional lassen sich die Anwendungen der Office-Suite nicht starten. < Big snip >
Yep, that's the german SuSE list. Note that this only applies to 8.1, and has nothing to do with the 8.2-and-above issue. I did a translation of that thread, maybe I'd better not bother this list with it... so I've hidden it here temporarily, it's a text file: http://www.shiems.freeler.nl/wpo2k-suse81
It is no great problem for me because I can use WP8-Linux to read my old .wpd files.
AbiWord can read them as well.
The only problem is for the Quattropro files. I need them (damned proprietary format!). As I converted my files in .txt delimited tab I think I can still read them with OO spreadsheet (hopefully)
In the 'Open' dialog of OO in 'File type:' you should look for the spreadsheet section, and select 'Text CSV (*.csv; *.txt)' there. In the next dialog you can then specify the tab as the delimiter. BTW, any spreadsheet should be able to do this, I have seen something similar in gnumeric. Good luck, SH