[ale] WordPerfect Install ???'s

[Michael H. Warfield]

Ryan ...... enscribed thusly:
>     Ok Ok.  I know.  It's late and I am in a hurry to install this new
> WordPerfect8 thang.  Anyway, I don't seem to be able to install it
> properly.  I am running Caldera, 2.0.33. ( I haven't had the time to
> upgrade the kernel ).  I copied the files to a temp directory under the
	- Would be a good idea if you did... -
> /root directory.  I unzipped and decompressed the files using
>                                              tar --ungzip -xf <filename>

> This seems to have worked fine.  All the files are pulled out ok.  Then
> I ran the ' Runme ' script.  It asked if I unzipped the files, I answer
> ' y ', then it tries to unzip the files again, giving me file header,
> not a tar file warnings.  The it asks for the install directory.  I told
> it "  /WordPerfect8 ".  Didn't like that.  The it renamed all the .gz
> files to .gz.bk

	Huh???  Something's not right here...  There shouldn't have been
anything in that directory with a .gz extension at that point to begin
with.  What does an "ls" show BEFORE you ran ./Runme?

Here are the files I see before running .Runme:

] alcove:~/wordperfect8$ ls
] Readme   b_ins00  b_req00  b_us00   g_req01  g_req03  g_us01
] Runme    b_ins01  b_req01  g_req00  g_req02  g_us00
] alcove:~/wordperfect8$ 

Here are the files I see after running .Runme:

] alcove:~/wordperfect8$ ls
] Readme      b_ins01.bk  b_us00.bk   g_req02.bk  g_us01.bk
] Runme       b_req00.bk  g_req00.bk  g_req03.bk
] b_ins00.bk  b_req01.bk  g_req01.bk  g_us00.bk
] alcove:~/wordperfect8$ 

Note:
	I unpacked from the single 23Meg download file, which should have
given the same results as the 7 "pieces" but maybe not.  I also did not
unpack into the same directory that the tarballs resided in.  Here is
how I unpacked:

# alcove:~/wordperfect8$ tar xvzf /mnt1/linux/wordperfect/guilg00.gz

>     I reran the tar command, ran the same thing, but said to install to
> " test ".  This would actually have been /root/wp/test.  The same thing
> happened again.  Said invalid directory then the Runme script exited.

>     Am I doing anything wrong.  I am doing all this from the command
> line.  Should I be doing it from XWindows?  The readme files are vague
> on this.

	I definitely ran this from XWindows and the installer is going to
run a GUI window during installation, but I don't think this is your problem.
Check carefully to see what files you have after unpacking and before running
the script.  Having extra files like the original tarballs or having files
in the wrong format may be confusing the Runme script.

>     Any ideas or suggestions?

	Yeah...  One other thing, not related to your question.  Why install
in /WordPerfect8?  Something like this should go under /usr or /usr/local
(my preference) or /opt.  You may be running a single partition system
but putting things off the root directory is a bad practice.  For developers,
it violates the file system standard.  There are lots of reasons for this
that really comes into play when you run multiple partitions (a good
practice).  This really isn't Windows or Dos where everything gets dumped
willy nilly into the root directory.

>             Ryan

	Mike
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