Wine and Office

[Jos Houtman]

On Saturday 23 August 2003 22:18, Klaasjan Brand wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 19:51, Paul Sery wrote:
> > Has anyone gotten Wine to run MS Word (or Office) under Severn? The
> > MS installer chokes under Severn.
>
> The latest wine version had some updates to msi handling, but no idea if
> it'l work. If you can spend some $$$ you could look at crossover office,
> a wine fork built especially to run MS office. I've seen office
> installing and running fairly well except for a few glitches.
>
> Klaasjan
>

i got the same problem with cxoffice and a wine snapshot from 20030813.
i heard of a workaround that would mean copying the /opt/cxoffice and 
~/.cxoffice from a machine on which the installation worked fine. 

quite a hassle for me so i just sit and hope it will be fixed.

jos Houtman