Following the Office 97 installation instruction given in http://www.wine-reviews.net/microsoft/running-ms-office-97-under-linux-with-wine.html failed to work for me. I get to the point where it says to install DCOM98. The terminal listing shows many errors: ralph@ralph-laptop:~/Download_folder$ wine dcom98.exe err:service:RPC_Init RpcServerUseProtseq failed with error 1703 err:wineboot:start_services_process Unexpected termination of services.exe - exit code 1703 err:setupapi:SetupDefaultQueueCallbackW copy error 32 L"C:\\windows\\temp\\IXP002.TMP\\rpcrt4.dll" -> L"C:\\windows\\system32\\rpcrt4.dll" err:setupapi:SetupDefaultQueueCallbackW copy error 5 L"C:\\windows\\temp\\IXP002.TMP\\install.exe" -> L"C:\\windows\\system32\\dcom98\\oldole\\uninstall.exe" err:setupapi:SetupDefaultQueueCallbackW copy error 5 L"C:\\windows\\temp\\IXP002.TMP\\dcom98.inf" -> L"C:\\windows\\system32\\dcom98\\oldole\\dcom98.inf" err:setupapi:SetupDefaultQueueCallbackW copy error 5 L"C:\\windows\\temp\\IXP002.TMP\\eula98.txt" -> L"C:\\windows\\system32\\dcom98\\license.txt" err:setupapi:SetupDefaultQueueCallbackW copy error 5 L"C:\\windows\\temp\\IXP002.TMP\\relnt98.txt" -> L"C:\\windows\\system32\\dcom98\\relnotes.txt" err:setupapi:SetupDefaultQueueCallbackW copy error 5 L"C:\\windows\\temp\\IXP002.TMP\\dcom98.inf" -> L"C:\\windows\\inf\\dcom98.inf" ralph@ralph-laptop:~/Download_folder$ wine regedit err:service:RPC_Init RpcServerUseProtseq failed with error 1703 err:wineboot:start_services_process Unexpected termination of services.exe - exit code 1703 However, when I look in .wine/drive_c/windows/system32, I find that ole32.dll, oleaut32.dll, olepro32.dll, and rpcrt4.dll have all been installed. Can anyone explain whether or not dcom98.exe has been correctly installed?? Assuming that dcom98 was correctly installed, I proceeded to the "wine regedit" command to set the Owner and Organization. I have no knowledge of the registry and would appreciate someone giving me explicit commands to type in to do this. The instructions given assume an understanding of the registry that I lack. Just to see if Office 97 would install even though I messed up 2 steps I put my CD in the drive and executed 'wine setup.exe. Here is the terminal listing showing no success. Can anyone explain if the failure was due to failed earlier steps or to something quite different: ralph@ralph-laptop:/media/cdrom0$ ls Aamsstp Cdonline odbccp32.dll Off97Pro.inf ofs97_01.ico Setup.lst Acme.exe Clipart odbcint.dll off97pro.pdf OS Setup.tdf acmsetup.exe ffast_bb.dll odbckey.inf Off97Pro.STF Queries Sounds acmsetup.hlp msacccah.dll odbcstf.dll offclean.dll rnscln97.opc srvpack autorun mssetup.dll of97spec.ini offcln97.opc selfreg.dll Template autorun.inf msvcrt20.dll off97_bb.dll Office setup.exe ValuPack Books msvcrt40.dll off97inv.dll offsetup.ttf Setup.ini ralph@ralph-laptop:/media/cdrom0$ wine setup.exe Warning: could not find DOS drive for current working directory '/media/cdrom0', starting in the Windows directory. err:service:RPC_Init RpcServerUseProtseq failed with error 1703 err:wineboot:start_services_process Unexpected termination of services.exe - exit code 1703 wine: could not load L"C:\\windows\\system32\\setup.exe": Module not found ralph@ralph-laptop:/media/cdrom0$ As I am very much a newbie any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Ralph
