wine users - May 2008 - Office XP - possible to install?

Hi all.

I've *never* been able to install Office XP. I've had it running in
CrossOver ( demo ), but my work is too stingy to pay for that, and yet I
still want to install Office. At the moment my VirtualBox installation
is becoming flaky.

I've updated a fresh Ubuntu-8.04 installation to wine-1.0-rc1.

I've then followed the instructions for installing on Gentoo ( install
IE6 via ies4linux, etc, etc ), part-way down the page at:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=3514

When I follow these, I get told that I need to perform some 'system
updates' ( or something like that ). I install the updates, go to
install Office, and get told that the system updates weren't applied
properly. I get 2 options: repair or exit. Repair goes through the same
process without repairing properly, and leads me back to the same point
again ( requiring a 'repair' of system components ). Exit exits.

I did the above a couple of times ( deleting .wine and .ies4linux each
time ). I then tried without any of the 'tricks' and installed into a
fresh setup. This way, I could select what features to install, but just
before the installer started copying files, it crashed out
( http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5163 ).


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Daniel Kasak
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Daniel Kasak wrote:
> I've then followed the instructions for installing on Gentoo ( install
IE6 via ies4linux, etc, etc ), part-way down the page at:
> http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=3514
Then don't bother asking here. If you using ies4linux - your Wine
configuration can not be supported. Refer to makers of that .... thing if you 
have any problems.

BTW RC1 version is horribly broken - you'd be lucky getting anything to
install/work with it.

If you really need this for your commercial use - just buy Crossover Office.

Hi Daniel,

I'm also a user of Wine. I used Crossover Linux 6.2 to install MS Office
2003 and it worked perfectly, but in the past the install did not work in Wine.

However since Wine 0.9.58 I have been able to install Office 2003 in plain Wine.
I haven't tried it yet in 1.0-rc1 but I believe it will work too.

If you have problems, please post the exact error messages and maybe I or
someone else can help you get it sorted.

I think 1.0-rc1 is a great release. My main use for Wine is me collection of
astronomy programs, and many of the problems I used to have went away with
version 1.0-rc1. I'm looking forward to 1.0.

Bamm