Hi! Half an hour ago I installed wine-20041201 under Mandrake Linux 9.1, successfully I think. On my PC I also have a partition with Windows 98 in it, correctly mounted. I installed Wine with the main purpose of properly writing and reading documents in MS Word, since neither kword, nor Open Office kwrite nor even abiword achieve this purpose in a satisfaying way. Now, probably I haven't understood the basics of Wine, bare with me: but how do I run MS Word with Wine?? I tried from command line with '$ wine word', '$ wine word.exe', always getting the message: 'wine: cannot find ...' I'm sure I'm missing some elementary concept: please, help! Thanks, Rodolfo P.S.: I don't know if it's important, but during the installation I was asked if I wished to use the Windows Drive already existing on my system or to create a clean Wine install, and I chose the second possibility: the fake C drive was placed in /home/rodolfo/.wine/drive_c. Maybe do I have to install MSWord in this fake Windows system? If so, how? ____________________________________________________________ Regala e regalati Libero ADSL: 3 mesi gratis e navighi veloce. 1.2 Mega di musica, film, video e sport. Abbonati subito senza costi di attivazione su http://www.libero.it
try going to the directory where word.exe is located and trying. romeomedina@libero.it wrote:>Hi! > >Half an hour ago I installed wine-20041201 under Mandrake Linux 9.1, >successfully I think. >On my PC I also have a partition with Windows 98 in it, correctly mounted. >I installed Wine with the main purpose of properly writing and reading documents >in MS Word, since neither kword, nor Open Office kwrite nor even abiword >achieve this purpose in a satisfaying way. >Now, probably I haven't understood the basics of Wine, bare with me: >but how do I run MS Word with Wine?? >I tried from command line with '$ wine word', '$ wine word.exe', >always getting the message: 'wine: cannot find ...' >I'm sure I'm missing some elementary concept: >please, help! > >Thanks, >Rodolfo > >P.S.: I don't know if it's important, but during the installation I was asked if >I wished to use >the Windows Drive already existing on my system or to create a clean Wine install, >and I chose the second possibility: the fake C drive was placed in >/home/rodolfo/.wine/drive_c. >Maybe do I have to install MSWord in this fake Windows system? >If so, how? > > > > >____________________________________________________________ >Regala e regalati Libero ADSL: 3 mesi gratis e navighi veloce. 1.2 Mega di musica, film, video e sport. >Abbonati subito senza costi di attivazione su http://www.libero.it > > > > >_______________________________________________ >wine-users mailing list >wine-users@winehq.org >http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users > > > >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20041222/2231914a/attachment.html
Rodolfo wrote:>how do I run MS Word with Wine??Joachim wrote:>You have to install Word. Use the new WineTools to do that. You can find >them here: >http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/Thanks. I followed the procedure explained in the README file:
Rodolfo wrote:>how do I run MS Word with Wine??Brad Fuler wrote:>try going to the directory where word.exe is located and trying.Thanks. The file winword.exe was in the Windows partition, I copied it into linux and tried with: 'wine winword.exe', but got error messages. Rodolfo ____________________________________________________________ Regala e regalati Libero ADSL: 3 mesi gratis e navighi veloce. 1.2 Mega di musica, film, video e sport. Abbonati subito senza costi di attivazione su http://www.libero.it
Rodolfo wrote:>The file winword.exe was in the Windows partition, I copied it into linux >and tried with: 'wine winword.exe', but got error messages.Brad Fuler wrote:>try running it from the winword directory.Ivan wrote:>That will never work, you have to run it from where it is, just cd to the directory where the file >is and run it with wine.David wrote:>yeah..go to the directory where office is installed and type wine >winword.exe....i'm sure its winword not word.Thanks to you all... The problem is, that the file winword.exe is in the directory '/mnt/windows/Programmi/Microsoft Office/Office', with a space between 'Microsoft' and 'Office', so when I try to enter that directory with '$ cd /mnt/windows/Programmi/Microsoft Office/Office' I get: bash: cd: /mnt/windows/Programmi/Microsoft: No such file or directory . I'm afraid to change as root the dir's name into 'Microsoft_Office' for fear to compromise the correct working of Windows. Any hint about that? Thanks indeed, Rodolfo ____________________________________________________________ Regala e regalati Libero ADSL: 3 mesi gratis e navighi veloce. 1.2 Mega di musica, film, video e sport. Abbonati subito senza costi di attivazione su http://www.libero.it
Rodolfo wrote:>The problem is, that the file winword.exe is in the directory >'/mnt/windows/Programmi/Microsoft Office/Office', with a space between 'Microsoft' and 'Office', > so when I try to enter that directory with '$ cd /mnt/windows/Programmi/Microsoft Office/Office' I get: > > bash: cd: /mnt/windows/Programmi/Microsoft: No such file or directory > >[...] Any hint about that?Brad wrote:>put quotes around the path.Pavel wrote:> You have 2 ways to solve this: > 1) Encapsulate all the path to double quotes: cd "/mnt/windows/Programmi/Microsoft Office/Office" > 2) Put a backslash before the space: cd /mnt/windows/Programmi/Microsoft\ Office/OfficeJoachim wrote:>("put the path in double quotes") will lead you to the next problem ("it >does not work anyway. why?") and us to the next answer ("it's because >you can not simply copy a windows exe to somewhere and think it will >work, because thats why people made installation programs nor can you >(with some exceptions) execute programs without having their registry >settings available; you have to made them available to wine"). With this >we waste your and our time. The best way is to use a menu driven tool >like the commercial CrossOver Office or the free WineTools and I don't >understand why you don't just continue with it. Did you follow what I >wrote you?Thanks! Neither with the double quotes nor with the backslash winword.exe doesn't manage to start. So I turned back to Winetools. That's what I did: I connected to internet; then, from another console, I did $ wt , and chose 'Base setup', then "TrueType Arial": I got the message: 'The config file says the software you want to install is already installed. Continue?'. I chose 'yes', there was a downloading, after which I accepted the license, and the installation went up to the end; I found myself in the 'Base setup' menu again, and selected DCOM98; there was a downloading as well, after which I accepted the license, and the installation went up to the end; then I found myself in the 'Base setup' menu again, and selected the 'Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 (plain method)', and got the message: After the installation your system.reg will be replaced! You will loose all registry keys of installed programs (except for DCOM98)! This is a full automatic installation of almost all components. You can add additional components later by using the uninstaller. Continue anyway? I chose 'no'. Then I exited the 'Base setup' menu, went into the Main Menu and continue with "Install additional software" and choose "Microsoft Office 2000". I got the message: If you are asked for, select drive D: for installation. Never install Office-Tools/Office-Assistents. They might shredder your setup. I pressed 'o.k.' and got the message: If you downloaded the file by yourself (e.g. in a different language) you can use this one instead of the default. Do you want to use the default? I chose 'yes' and got the message: For this software you need a mounted CD. Shall I mount it for you? I chose 'yes', and got the error message: Mounting of the CD failed. You should do it manually. I pressed 'o.k', and after a few seconds got the message: It seems that the installation has failed. I pressed 'o.k.', and found myself in the Additional Software menu again. I exit WineTools. What now? Maybe it doesn't work with Wine 20041201? Or what wrong did I do? Thanks, Rodolfo ____________________________________________________________ Regala e regalati Libero ADSL: 3 mesi gratis e navighi veloce. 1.2 Mega di musica, film, video e sport. Abbonati subito senza costi di attivazione su http://www.libero.it
run /mnt/windows/Programmi/Microsoft Office/Office wine winword.exe and send any error messages you get in the shell. Ivan.
Ivan wote:>run >/mnt/windows/Programmi/Microsoft Office/Office >wine winword.exe > >and send any error messages you get in the shell.I did: $ cd /mnt/windows/Programmi/Microsoft\ Office/Office $ wine winword.exe , and in a small windows the following Microsoft Office message appeared: Per eseguire l'applicazione ? necessario installarla. Eseguire l'installazione dal supporto di installazione utilizzato per l'installazione originale. . Yes, but how? No message in the shell. Thanks, Rodolfo ____________________________________________________________ Regala e regalati Libero ADSL: 3 mesi gratis e navighi veloce. 1.2 Mega di musica, film, video e sport. Abbonati subito senza costi di attivazione su http://www.libero.it