Patrick wrote:

Well, yes, I do have a question or complaint with SuSE 8! I can't seem to get my WordPerfect 8 to install now. Anyone got any clues? Is it that it is just completely incompatible with KDE3 or missing the libs it needs again like it was back in 7.2? I guess it is time to start moving away from WP since it is no longer supported by Corel, but I really don't see a word processor with the same features yet. Open Office just wigs out on me (v641d) and SO5.2 is just too bloated to use. Plus can you create text boxes on the page, use templates for labels, etc., easily print out a envelope? Things WP8 does easily, the others seem to struggle.

In my experience, installing WP8 on a recent SuSE box is problematic, it has nothing to do with KDE. The source of the problem seems to be the installation script that came with the package. It checks the kernel version you are running, if it does not look like 2.x.y (where x, y are numbers) it fails and places the files in the root directory. The problem is caused by the kernel version convention used by SuSE, e.g. 2.4.10-SMP-64G, etc. Try recompiling your kernel and modules without SMP, PAE and memory bigger than 1 GB options, then the installation may work. Another solution is installing it on a box with an old distribution and then copying it with the same absolute path on a newer box. For example: Machine A, 2.2.19: /opt/wp8 Machine B, 2.4.16-4G: /opt/wp8 You will also need the packages: shlibs5.rpm and xshared.rpm -- Rafael