Re: Wine 1 and Office 2003?

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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

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