Hi All, I am trying to convert a customer over to Linux workstation, instead of upgrading to Windows 7. One last program to go. I can not get Access 2003 to work with CentOS 5.4's Wine 1.0.1. I am set to upgrade his test workstation to Fedora 12 and the latest Wine in a month or so. (Access 2003 crashed when you try to open a database.) Does anyone know if Access 2003 works in the latest Wine? Many thanks, -T
Wine is over a year old, it is recommended you install the latest Wine instead (currently 1.1.42). This might mean (depending on your distro) that you have to compile Wine from source.
Sorry, I meant to say 1.0.1 is over a year old.
Todd And Margo Chester wrote:> Does anyone know if Access 2003 works in the latest Wine?According to AppDB http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=9717 - no it does not work on Wine.
On 04/17/2010 05:13 AM, DaVince wrote:> Wine is over a year old, it is recommended you install the latest Wine instead (currently 1.1.42). This might mean (depending on your distro) that you have to compile Wine from source. >I kind of sort of already knew that. I did not feel like gong through all the effort of upgradig just to find it did not work. That is why I asked others it they knew.
On 04/17/2010 09:00 AM, vitamin wrote:> Todd And Margo Chester wrote: > >> Does anyone know if Access 2003 works in the latest Wine? >> > According to AppDB http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=9717 - no it does not work on Wine. > >Ah poo! That was the last program I had to get working before I could migrate to Linux. Looks like I am stuck with Windows for this client. Unless I find something better that runs on Linux. Hmmm. Anyone have any ideas? Many thanks, -T
Todd And Margo Chester wrote:> Ah poo! That was the last program I had to get working before I could migrate to Linux. Looks like I am stuck with Windows for this client.Honestly, I haven't seen a single ms access program worth keeping. Converting it to something cross-platform would be much better solution then running access on Wine.
If you really need Access, try Crossover. They have hacks to make it work; not perfectly, but it might good enough for your purposes. As for Open Office, have you tried the Go-oo build? It includes a lot of things not in plain OO. http://go-oo.org/
On 04/19/2010 04:32 AM, dimesio wrote:> If you really need Access, try Crossover. They have hacks to make it work; not perfectly, but it might good enough for your purposes. >Hi Dimesio, I would like to eventually get away from Access. But i the mean time, I will have a look at Crossover. Thank you!> As for Open Office, have you tried the Go-oo build? It includes a lot of things not in plain OO. http://go-oo.org/ >Never heard of it. I will definately take a look at it. I am not looking additional features, just fixes for the endless bugs that make it almost impossible to use. Thank you for the tip! -T
vitamin, Which products do you recommend to replace M$ Access? Alan
Todd And Margo Chester some of the issue with Tables is ODF. ODF supports more forms of tables than MS Office does. I do copy and paste tables quite commonalty inside openoffice full formatting transfer. I guess you have save mode .doc. Basically stop being stupid and save openoffice native and most of your table problems just disappear. Its the doc import export process that shots the hell out of tables. Go-oo does handle that better so less table problems. I have no issues with OpenOffice and tables thinking all my documents remain ODF internally and are sent out to externals as PDF files. Printing an envelope exactly what is up I only mail merged about 40 this morning with openoffice. This is not strange for me either. I have not had a issue with envelope printing since early openoffice 2.x time frame. Exactly what was the last openoffice you tried. Please don't be another troll who just because it did not work in a old version it still has to be broken now. For access I have used Kexi for years. Currently waiting for it to be come free on windows instead of the 99 EUR. If you have to use openoffice base back onto mysql unless you want to go insane.
Alan Barwick wrote:> Which products do you recommend to replace M$ Access?Anything that talks to DB and displays information out of it. Even simple grid & form written in PHP would be miles ahead.
Vitamin: I was thinking about a real database, like MySql or even (yuck) MS SQL. Access has WAY too many limitations on data storage to function as a full time database. That being said, I worked on an Access project that was a user friendly front end for a MS SQL system. It provided forms and other functions that MS SQL, out of the box, does not. Mostly Oracle Forms type stuff. It even provided a semi-anonymous interface. Yes, it would be much better to use an Open-Source product rather than a closed end product. James McKenzie -----Original Message----->From: vitamin <wineforum-user at winehq.org> >Sent: Apr 22, 2010 8:54 PM >To: wine-users at winehq.org >Subject: [Wine] Re: Does Access 2003 work on Wine? > > >Alan Barwick wrote: >> Which products do you recommend to replace M$ Access? > >Anything that talks to DB and displays information out of it. Even simple grid & form written in PHP would be miles ahead. > > > > >