On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Mike C <mike.cloaked@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Does anyone have Excel 2003 working under Wine in F8? > > I installed Office 2003 Pro after installing wine in F8, then running > winecfg to make an initial setup, and using winetricks to install > corefonts. I had to "yum install cabextract" before the winetricks > script would install corefonts. > > I have tried various different additional things (rm -fr ~/.wine > in between each attempt) but I reach the same problem every time. > > I have tried installing dcom98, riched20 etc etc but it does not > make it work. Also I have the same symptoms on two different machines, > bit running KDE 3/5 in F8 and fully up to date. > > The problem arises after the first time I run Excel (in KDE 3.5 using > the K menu to navigate to Excel via the wine submenu). The first time after > installing Office 2003 it works (apparently) fine. But every time I run > Excel after that it crashes and says it needs to shut down - but does not > and goes through a never-ending loop of popping up this box on the screen. > Killing all wine processes still leaves cruft on the screen and I have > to close the login session and log back in to clear the cruft. However > Excel 2003 won't run apart from the first time after install. > > Does anyone have a workaround for this? > > I have looked at the winehq site, and also googled for an answer > but I cannot find anything available specific to F8 with an > up-to-date wine package (there is some blog stuff for the release > candidates for wine 1.0 but nothing using current versions. > I am currently on wine-1.0-1.fc8 A different suggestion: use VMware Server instead to run Office2003. It is free and it works really fine. Paul -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
