[ale] WordPerfect Install ???'s

[Wandered Inn]

A couple of things I did, that you may not have.  I first created the
directory where wordperfect was to reside. (/usr/local/wordperfect). 
Then when it asked where to install, I provided the full path
(/usr/local/wordperfect).  Worked fine.

"Ryan ......" wrote:
> 
>     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
> /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
> 
>     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.
> 
>     Any ideas or suggestions?
> 
>             Ryan

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