[Fwd: WordPerfect 8 for Linux installed, but where??]

[Shawn T. Rutledge]

On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 02:52:22PM -0700, Mark Berkwitt wrote:
> > Looks like it isn't actually installed, because there's nothing in the
> > WordPerfect8 directory you created.
> 
> Why then would I have these 2 entries?
> 
> > /usr/share/apps/kappfinder/WordProcessing/WordPerfect.kdelnk
> > /usr/share/apps/kappfinder/apps/Applications/WordPerfect.kdeln

I don't know how they got there, but kdelnk files are the same idea
as shortcuts in Windows... a file which points to another file, and
has metadata about the other file (what icon goes with it, is it 
a program, what command-line arguments are needed when starting the
program, etc.)  You can do

cat /usr/share/apps/kappfinder/WordProcessing/WordPerfect.kdelnk

to see what's in it, and if it points to some file that isn't there
(most likely xwp, since it appears that is the Wordperfect executable)
then you know why double-clicking on the icon doesn't do anything.

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