On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 12:32 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > 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. The current version of VMware won't run on recent kernels on F9 (or did last time I tried it 3 or 4 weeks ago), so I'm running VirtualBox and have been very pleasantly surprised by how good it is, at least in a desktop setting. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
