Subject: Re: WordPerfect-8.0-8
From: Andrew B. Arthur (arthur99@global2000.net)
Date: Sat Oct 09 1999 - 18:09:05 MDT
> I tried to install WordPerfect and I got this message:
> dependency problems
> The following dependency problems occurred:
> libc.so.5 is needed by WordPerfect-8.0-8
> do you want to ignore these problems?
> (saying yes may make your system unstable)
Well I don't know if it would make your system unstable, it would put lots
of unwanted stuff on your hard drive you can't use. WordPerfect doesn't work
with PowerPC Linux, you will note that system requirements are x86 Linux,
Pentium or faster.
No comment if / when they will port to PowerPC Linux. You may want to look
into the Applixware Office suite, or one of the OpenSource word processors
like AbiWord (which is still in extremely heavy development.)
> is there any thing wrong with saying yes?
You will just waste disk space.
> Or should I find libc.so.5 somewhere?
You won't find it. PowerPC Linux-glibc 2.1 uses libc.so.6 which is a link to
glibc.so.2.11, which is the library that allows you to use programs coded
using the c programming language.
However if there is a old PowerPC binary that requires libc.so.5 or
glibc.so.1.99 you should look for a newer version. If worst comes to worst
you can always update them using fix961212, but it's a hack so it's not
recommended for anything that you want to have any stability to at all.
Thanks,
Andrew Arthur a.k.a. AArthur
arthur99@global2000.net
AIM: arthur998
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