[aclug-L] Re: Corel's Office Suite will work... it just wants a printer.

["Jeremy King" <jmking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yippee!!!

After much wailing and gnashing of teeth, I decided to strace WordPerfect to
see where it was dying.  The strace output said something about print
services, so I checked to see the status of lpr on my laptop.  Sure enough,
since I almost never want to print from my laptop, I had disabled lpr a
while back.  I got lpr setup--didn't need to configure a printer--and that
solved the problem.  The whole office suite is working now.  Kind of a
fruity bug if you ask me (it could have at least told me why it had to
die!!!), but it's easy enough to solve.

Jeremy

----- Original Message -----
From: Jeremy King <jmking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <discussion@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2000 12:35 AM
Subject: [aclug-L] Re: Corel's Office Suite will it work?


> I've been trying to install it on a celeron 333 (or 300?) with 128 mb ram.
> If hardware is the problem I'll eat my shorts.  When I originally posted,
I
> had plenty of disk space, but in the interim I've downloaded the install
> files for redhat 6.2. which ate up most of my free Linux partion (and took
> roughly the advertised 27 hrs at 56k, spread over three nights).  So now
> I've tried installing it on corel (both the full and minimal installs) and
> on redhat 6.2 (minimal install only).  I've struck out on three tries with
> the office suite, and the linux distribution makes Win98 look stable, so
it
> looks like all I'm getting for my money is a cute little plush penguin.
> Ouch.
>
> Jeremy
>



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