Install Office 2007 under 64 bit Wine
T o n g
I'm having problem installing Ms Office 2007 under Wine on AMD64 box --
when I click the install button I get an endless list of errors in the
terminal, mainly to do with things being unimplemented. And the install
progress bar *never progress*.
All other distros seems to be fine, as early as more than 2 years ago:
http://www.quicktweaks.com/2008/04/09/install-ms-office-2007-in-linux/
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=500810
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=15511
Anybody is able to do that in Debian (Testing/Sid)?
$ uname -rm
2.6.35-grml64 x86_64
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Klistvud
> Hi,
>
> I'm having problem installing Ms Office 2007 under Wine on AMD64 box
> --
> when I click the install button I get an endless list of errors in the
> terminal, mainly to do with things being unimplemented. And the
> install
> progress bar *never progress*.
Have you tried renaming temporarily your ~/.wine to ~/.wine.old prior
to installing MS Office? Perhaps there's something in your current
~.wine profile messing it up. Renaming it will reset your Wine to the
defaults (a default profile gets re-created the first time you launch
Wine).
Also, it all "may" depend on which flavor of Windows (XP/Vista/2008...)
you select in Wine Settings.
>
> All other distros seems to be fine, as early as more than 2 years ago:
That was my attitude too, until I discovered that a freshly installed
Debian was fine too; it was with prolonged use that my Wine
installations got flaky -- just like real Windows! Although Wine "Is
Not an Emulator", it emulates Windows rather well. The need to
"reinstall your Windows OS" every 3 months or so is, therefore, a Wine
feature and not a bug. Luckily, a "reinstall" is so simple to do in
Wine: you just delete your ~/.wine profile et voila'.
That said, however, that's just my experience. Your mileage may vary.
Even more so seeing that you're using Squeeze/Sid whereas my experience
is strictly limited to Lenny.
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T o n g
>> I'm having problem installing Ms Office 2007 under Wine on AMD64 box --
>> when I click the install button I get an endless list of errors in the
>> terminal, mainly to do with things being unimplemented. And the install
>> progress bar *never progress*.
>
> Have you tried renaming temporarily your ~/.wine to ~/.wine.old prior to
> installing MS Office? . . .
No I didn't have ~/.wine before. A default profile was created the first
time I launched Wine. And every time I repeat my installation, I just
remove ~/.wine beforehand.
> Also, it all "may" depend on which flavor of Windows (XP/Vista/2008...)
> you select in Wine Settings.
I was following
Install MS Office 2007 in Linux
http://www.quicktweaks.com/2008/04/09/install-ms-office-2007-in-linux/
So I chose Vista.
>> All other distros seems to be fine, as early as more than 2 years ago:
>
> That was my attitude too, until I discovered that a freshly installed
> Debian was fine too;
Yes, this is a freshly installed Debian as well, using Squeeze/Sid.
$ apt-cache policy wine
wine:
Installed: 1.0.1-3
Candidate: 1.0.1-3
Version table:
*** 1.0.1-3 0
360 http://cdn.debian.net/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages
50 http://cdn.debian.net/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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