On 12 Jan 2007 at 20:44, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 12/01/07, Declan Moriarty <junk_mail@xxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 10:23 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > I've downloader Word Viewer 2003 from the MS website. When I run it, > > > it pops up a dialog box stating that I need a newer Windows version. I > > > googled "newer windows version wine" and I've found this: > > > http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=1122&action=view > > > > > > But I have not idea what to do with it. What must I do to get > > > wdviewer.exe installed? I'm using wine-0.9.28 on Kubuntu. Thanks. > > > > It's a patch to the code. > > > > Man patch is your friend. > > > > Save the chunk from the 'diff' down until the final bracket under a name > > like wine-newer-version.patch and copy it to the same directory as your > > wine source top dir. > > > > cd into the source top dir (so 'ls ..' shows you > > wine-newer-version.patch) and ls dlls/advapi32/security.c shows you the > > file. > > > > enter the following line > > > > patch -p0 < ../wine-newer-version.patch > > > > make clean, and compile and install. You will have added whatever > > functionality that patch provides. > > > > Thanks. I think that I'll forego the patch, however, and wait for it > to get into a stable release. > > Dotan Cohen > > http://what-is-what.com/what_is/internet_explorer.html > http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/320/machine_head.html > > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users > Kubuntu includes OpenOffice.org which will allow you to open and edit just about any Word document. So forget about trying to run Word Viewer with Wine. Tony _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
