wine users - Sep 2010 - can't install microsoft office 2007

Hi,

I have a fresh install of Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 with wine 1.2. I inserted the
Microsoft Office 2007 in the drive and when I open setup.exe with wine it comes
back with a message "Setup did not complete successfully, We are sorry for
the ..."

As a test of wine, I tried running some little programs unrelated to this Office
package and they run well. I also copied the setup.exe to a separate directory
and I got a different message: "Setup cannot find the required
setup...", which indicates to me that wine is executing the setup program.

In the past I installed the same package (with the same disk) on Ubuntu Karmic
9.04 without any problems and more recently on a XP system so it is not a
problem of the CD. In fact I copied the whole CD to a USB flash drive and ran it
from there and I get the same message.

I'll appreciate any help.

Daniel

danielsender wrote:
> 
> I have a fresh install of Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 with wine 1.2. I inserted the
Microsoft Office 2007 in the drive and when I open setup.exe with wine it comes
back with a message "Setup did not complete successfully, We are sorry for
the ..."
> 
Office 2007 should install without any tweaking in a clean wineprefix. 

Rename ~/.wine. Do not install any winetricks or other tweaks. Run the installer
from a terminal and post whatever messages appear.

Hi John,

That's exactly what I did, I removed .wine completely and ran setup.exe as I
wrote before. I know nothing about wine so I was wondering if the log that I
posted gives you a clue of what's happening. Thanks,

Daniel