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David Johanson wrote:
For grins yesterday, I thought I'd try to install Corel WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux on my 8.2 box. Here is what I experienced.
Uh-oh. The latest SuSE version on which WPO2K can be installed is 8.1, which has glibc 2.3.1. Because of changes in glibc 2.3.2, Wine had to be largely rewritten. The same would go for CorelWine, a version of Wine on which WPO2K depends. But alas... this is an abandoned project. After having been out of the Linux market for some time, Corel is testing the market again. They updated their Linux native WP8 so it runs on current distributions. I have this version, it installed easily on SuSE 8.2. At this moment, they have retired it from the market again, they seem to be making some enhancements. I believe it's still available here: http://shop.mensys.nl/cgi-bin/db2www/MNS_art2.d2w/report?artname=&catname=LINUXWP8 A good place to find out more would be the WPO2000 for Linux newsgroup, and the WP8 for Linux newsgroup, at the cnews.corel.com as well as the cnews.corel.ca news server. SH