#9210 –Installing WordPerfect® 8 Under New Linux Distributions

This document will provide information on installing WordPerfect® 8 under the latest RedHat Linux, Mandrake Linux and SuSE Linux. Foreknowledge of RPM package installation is required.

RedHat


1. Download and install the ld.so-1.9.5-13.i386.rpm package.

2. Download and install the libc-5.3.12-31.i386.rpm package.

3. Run the ldconfig command to regenerate the library list.

4. Follow the standard installation instructions provided with WordPerfect® 8 .


Mandrake


1. Download and install the ld.so-1.9.11-4mdk.i586.rpm package, part of the Mandrake Cooker project.

2. Install the libc-5.3.12-35mdk.i586.rpm package from the installation CD.

3. Run the ldconfig command to regenerate the library list.

4. Follow the standard installation instructions provided with WordPerfect® 8 .

 

SuSE


1. Install the shlibs5 package from the SuSE FTP server for SuSE 7.2, the file off the installation disk #2 does not contain the necessary configurations. See http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/wordperfect72.html for more details. For SuSE Linux versions other than 7.2, the distributed shlibs5.rpm will function.

2. Run the ldconfig command to regenerate the library list.

3. Follow the standard installation instructions provided with WordPerfect® 8 .