wine users - Aug 2002 - Can not install Excel97/Word97

Hello!

I am new to this list (although I have done a fair amount of research in the
archives) and I need to ask what is probably one of the most frequently asked
questions on a list like this:

How do I install Word97 and Excel97?

(Codeweavers CrossoverOffice can do this, and they ASSURE us that they roll
everything they do back to the main wine CVS and hence, this SHOULD work!)

So far; this is what I've done:

Debian (testing) distribution, running the debian-packaged version of wine,
which seems to be "Wine 20020605". (At least that's what
"wine --version" gives.) It runs notepad.exe fine. Save doesn't
work, though.

I don't have a Windows partition, nor do I have access to a Windows
computer. (Well, I DO but I wanted to do this the "clean" way, ie.
wine/Linux only with no MS contamination, sort of. You know what I mean.)

In goes the Office CD. I mount it with "mount -t iso9660 -o unhide
/dev/cdrom /cdrom" (the "unhide" thing was a trick I read about
in some other post, I don't think it made much difference though).

Then...

"wine /cdrom/excel/disk1/install.exe"

... which gives me this:

"err:module:PE_fixup_imports Module (file) MSSETUP.dll (which is needed by
X:\~MSSETUP.T\~msstfof.t\acmsetup.exe) not found"

Right. MSSETUP.dll I find on dll-files.com, and put it in my fake-windows
WINDOWS/SYSTEM directory. (X: is my /tmp, btw.)

That brings me a bit further. The program starts and a windows error message
appears, stating that it cannot open "C:\Windows\System\Excel97.stf".
Pity, I think, since the file exists in /cdrom/excel/disk1 and so I drop that,
too, into the Windows/System dir in my fake-windows environment.

Now I get an error message (a windows error message) that I don't know what
to do with. It says:

"Setup Error 797

Inf Parser Object

Your setup files may be damaged. Try restarting the Setup program from where you
originally ran it."

I click OK and get another error message that claims "cannot read the first
section of C:\Windows\System\Excel97.stf".

Then I get the message that the installation was not finished, and the
installation program exits.

I'd love to give you the complete texts of all the error messages, but those
not quoted here are in swedish and I doubt that those would be of much help.

So... begging on my bare knees for help... what can I do? What am I doing wrong?
How does Codeweavers do it in the CrossoverOffice?

I'm very, very grateful for any help. Surely, someone MUST have solved this
problem, right? I mean, these applications must be the most tested ones in the
history of Wine?

Ok, over and out. Thank you for reading this thing all the way to the end.

/Fredrik Persson

> On Monday 19 August 2002 19:47, Fredrik Persson wrote:
> > Hello!
/... removed .../
> > Ok, over and out. Thank you for reading this thing all the way to the
> > end.
> >
> :)
>
> I have office97 installed on a fake windows partition. But I dont remember
> to have had any problems you describe.
> But I'm sure you need stdole.tlb from a real windows for it to work.
(it is
> provided with crossover). Try copying that in c:\windows\system and retry.
Thank you. It did not solve my "MSSETUP.DLL"-problem though. I shall 
elaborate on this solution later on.

What on earth can "stdole.tlb" be??
> Also there was some report on the list lately where some not english
> version of office could not be installed.
Forsooth!? I shall have to aquire an anglosachsian CD then!

/Fredrik Persson

> here's you problem 'MSSETUP.dll'
>
> try this
> cd /cdrom
> wine setup.exe
> to run the main office setup with /cdrom as the working directory and
> then pick excel from the setup menu. This should hopefully work
> correctly.
Sorry, it did not. First, there is no "setup.exe" on my Office 97
"Small
Business Edition" (Swedish) CD. There is, however, an
"autorun.exe"-file that
brings up a menu. (Choose to install Word, Excel, etc...)
> failing that search for MSSETUP.dll on the cdrom and copy it to
> /var/wine/windows/system or where ever you setup wine to be.
As I said in my first post, I did almost that. If it exists on the CD, it's 
inside a .cab-file. I did, however, find MSSETUP.dll on dll-files.com and 
downloaded it. The result can be read about in my first post. They were, to 
summarize it, not succesful.

/Fredrik Persson