Subject: Re: WordPerfect-8.0-8
From: Roy Koch (rkoch@interaccess.com)
Date: Sat Oct 09 1999 - 20:49:37 MDT
Thanks so much I am a newbe and thought that a program for Linux weather it
came from a PC installation disk or not would work on the version of Linux I am
running? I was thinking that is what makes Linux so great but I see that there
is more than one flavor of Linux!
"Andrew B. Arthur" wrote:
> > 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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