Installing WordPerfect (was Re:RPM compatability)

[Paul King]

On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 13:58 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 11:13:52AM -0500, Paul King wrote:
> > wp-6.0-1.i386.rpm: RPM v1 bin i386 wp-6.0-1
> 
> Wow that really is that ancient.  And 6.0 was probably one of the worst
> versions ever made of word perfect.  Buggy beyond imagination.

I never thought anyone on this list would flame bait WordPerfect 6, but
for the record, I consider this version fail-safe beyond imagination. I
believe you are thinking of the MS-Windows bloatware that came from WP
Corp (same version number). This one was marketed by Caldera, probably
to promote their distro of Linux. This WP was the first version ever
made for Linux, as far as I know, and is solid as a rock. It was made
when the version 1 kernel came out, and I was able to run the same
binaries unchanged when the version 2 kernel came out, and it could be
installed without any adjusting on either version, even after a change
in glibc, or windows system (it comes bundled with its own Motif
binaries). I don't know what your standards are for "stable", but I
can't think of any software from anyone that could survive that, without
needing to be recompiled. 

I also have Corel WPO2000 and WP version 8 for Linux, but I find them
both less stable. WPO2000 runs on top of Wine (which is a problem right
there), and WP8 is the first version Corel f***'ed with. I was able to
expand the tarballs in WP8, but the installer crashed. Since Corel
withdrew their support for WP for Linux, it is hard to find updated info
on installing these versions on a system like mine (Ubuntu 7.1 running
GNOME), so the best alternative is to first try what I feel is a
fail-safe version like version 6.

To do that, of course, I need to extract the binaries :-)

> 
> > no output (just goes back to the shell prompt).
> > 
> > If the above format, version 1, is correct, then the fact that I am
> > running a rpm 4.4.1 may be the problem. Another poster suggested that I
> > find the source for the compatable rpm, and run that rpm instead.
> 
> alien assumes new rpm's and uses rpm2cpio to extract the contents.  I am
> pretty sure older rpm versions were not based on cpio at all.
> 
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