Wine and Office

[Paul Sery]

> On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Jos Houtman wrote:

> > 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. 
> cxoffice has worked fine for me on severn, at least to the extent I've
> tried it (installed a couple of apps, made sure they started)
> later,
> chris

MS Word and Office don't work under cxoffice either. Using either of the
June/July or August Wine snapshots doesn't affect the problem. I've also
tried using winetools and DCOM98 to install Word but no luck (although
it's possible I'm not using dcom98 correctly).

There's a similar thread going on at the wine-users list so hopefully some
smart person will figure it all out.

Thanks,
Paul