Hello, I am trying to use wine-0.9.25 on debian etch 2.6.18 (My objectif is to run office over my debian so i can abandon windows completly ... ). When i try to configure the xwine through its interface, I get a 2 warning from Gtk : - gtk_widget_size_allocate() - locale not supported by C library which make xwine shuts down due to a crach of process xxxx (segmentation fault). ( I tried to install office without running xwine, it start to be installed then it crash before finishing the installation) I hope that my question does not sound too novice ( which i am because this is my first use of wine) but I searched the forums and did not found related threads. I appreciate any help or directions to solve the problem. Thanks in advance
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:03 AM, hussam <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> I am trying to use wine-0.9.25 on debian etch 2.6.18 (My objectif is to run office over my debian so i can abandon windows completly ... ). > > When i try to configure the xwine through its interface, I get a 2 warning from Gtk :xwine is abandonware, see http://darken33.free.fr/index.php?cat=4&rub=20> ( I tried to install office without running xwine, it start to be installed then it crash before finishing the installation)You probably want to use the latest wine, see http://winehq.org/site/download-deb For Etch, the latest packaged version is wine-0.9.58. Which version of MS Office are you trying to use?
Since xwine is an abandoned ware, I will just stop trying to make it works. But i will not give up installaing office 2003 that easy ... By looking in the AppDB, I found out that you, Dan Kegel, is one of the maintainers of msoffice 2003. It seems like it works, although I am not the first one to have problems with the installer : http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=3214 I will follow the directions posted there to try to work it out. I am willing to post my test results (If i succeed) since I use Word and PowerPoint frequently. Thank you Dan Kegel.
hussam wrote:> Thanks, Timeout, I will install newer version of wine and try Office on it. I hope to be able to get the French spellcheck to work too. However, in in order to keep this thread related to its subject, I will post my test results or unreported problems ( If any, even though i rarely get thhigs to work from first try) in office 2003 threads.If you need the French Spellcheck, I can try to help you from the forum. I installed it from a multilingual CD, however Grammar is not working, just Spelling in my case because I have a German O/S and setting Wine to French is not that easy.
So far, office 2003 worked with the wine 0.9.58 version :). I will test it for a few days before posting the results.
> So far, office 2003 worked with the wine 0.9.58 version . I will test it for a few days before posting the results.There was a bug in 0.9.58 that caused some fonts to always display in bold in Word 2003. That bug was fixed in 0.9.60.
Yes indeed, dimesio, the fonts look a bit different ... but one can get used to that (I hope). For further discussion about office 2003, i suggest to use the already existing thread about it : Office 2003 Service Packs (http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=512&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=office+2003)