Re: [Sheflug] WordPerfect install

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.org.uk>]

TBO, I had the same problem on both my boxen, and I just unset the DISPLAY
variable and used the text one. Much better!

Craig Andrews
craig@fishbot.org.uk

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On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Barrie Bremner wrote:

> Hi all.
> 
> I've been trying to install WordPerfect 8 on two of my boxen (the only
> two with monitors, unsurprisingly :-), and one was fine (my machine -
> flux) and the other (folk's machine - nothought) is failing to start the
> installer GUI.
> 
> Now, according to the notes I've got, the DISPLAY needs to be set
> correctly.
> DISPLAY=:0 - which seems to be OK.
> 
> There are so many differences between the systems (kernel and X versions
> for a start) that I couldn't go through it all, so I wonder if anyone
> has had similar problems.
> 
> Thing is, that I want it on my folks machine - I'm not all that bothered
> about mine!
> 
> Grrrr. Commercial software vs A Linux hacker's personal project...I
> think I prefer the latter...
> 
> Baz.
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> Barrie J. Bremner
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