Installation of Corel Draw 9.0 in SuSE

The install program for Corel Draw did not work on my SuSE Linux 7.0 system (it terminated with no errors, without installing anything). The following commands were necessary to install and run it:

cd /cdrom/dists/redhat/i386
rpm -i libwine-graphics9-glibc-2.0-2000.06.30.00.45-1.i386.rpm
rpm -i wine-graphics9-glibc-2.0-2000.06.30.00.45-1.i386.rpm
rpm -i wpo2000-fonts-core-2000.06.30.00.45-1.i386.rpm
rpm -i fonttastic-glibc-2.0-2000.06.30.00.45-1.i386.rpm
rpm -i libaps-1.0-1511.0.i386.rpm
rpm -i --force libaps-1.0-1511.0.i386.rpm
rpm -i graphics9-draw-2000.06.30.00.45-1.i386.rpm
rpm -i graphics9-paint-2000.06.30.00.45-1.i386.rpm
rpm -i graphics9-common-2000.06.30.00.45-1.i386.rpm
rpm -i graphics9-help-writingtools-2000.06.30.00.45-1.i386.rpm
rpm -i graphics9-help-draw-2000.06.30.00.45-1.i386.rpm
rpm -i graphics9-help-paint-2000.06.30.00.45-1.i386.rpm
rpm -i graphics9-help-techsupport-2000.06.30.00.45-1.i386.rpm
rpm -i graphics9-help-common-2000.06.30.00.45-1.i386.rpm
rpm -i menu-2.1.5rpm-1.i386.rpm
rpm -i menusupport-redhat-2000.06.20.12.00-1.i386.rpm

A startup script named 'fonttastic' is automatically installed in /sbin/init.d/ which runs the command

 
        /usr/X11R6/bin/fontfs -daemon

to start a font server automatically upon startup. The font server can be started manually if necessary by typing

  
       /sbin/init.d/fonttastic start

You also need to type the command

  
xset fp+ tcp/127.0.0.1:7102/all

Otherwise, typing 'coreldraw' causes the following message to appear:

  
Unable to add FontTastic font server to font path.
The font server is probably not installed or not running.
Correct the problem and try again.

xset fp default will reset the font path to the server's default. A successful startup is indicated by the following messages:

  
  Installing wine
  Loading library gdi32
  Xlib:  extension "XFree86-Misc" missing on display "unix:0.0".
  Xlib:  extension "XFree86-Misc" missing on display "unix:0.0".
  Installing Graphics9 configuration files.
  Building font metrics. This may take some time...

Note: the program is extremely slow and crashes a lot. This may reflect its legacy as a Windows application. CorelDraw is not a native Linux application, but runs under Wine. It is hard to tell whether the crashing is caused by Wine, by CorelDraw, or some other factor.

Corel seems to have stopped selling the Linux version of this program since they were partially bought by Microsoft. We were never able to get CorelDraw to start up on any computer running SuSE 7.1 or higher. Since this page was written, we have switched from CorelDraw to 'sketch'.

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