wine users - Mar 2012 - Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1 installer failed (Wine 1.4)

I want to install Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1(japanese disk).
I have copied OLEAUT32.DLL of install disk to .wine/drive_c/windows/system32/ .
However, is displayed as "OLEAUT32.DLL is not incompatible", fail to
install.
Why do Wine fail to install?

PC:HP Compaq 8510w
CPU:Intel Core2 Duo 2.5GHz
Memory:4GB
OS:openSUSE 12.1 x86-64 japanese, KDE4.7.2, nvidia driver, ja_JP.utf8
Wine:1.4-2.1
(http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:Wine/openSUSE_12.1/)

nokami31 wrote:
> I want to install Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1(japanese disk).
> I have copied OLEAUT32.DLL of install disk to
.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/ .
> However, is displayed as "OLEAUT32.DLL is not incompatible", fail
to install.
> Why do Wine fail to install?
> 
Why did you copy native oleaut32 in the first place? It is not needed for 
Office 2000. AFAIK, the only native dll that is needed to install Office 2000 is
mfc42, and you can install that with winetricks.

dimesio wrote:
> Why did you copy native oleaut32 in the first place? It is not needed for 
Office 2000. AFAIK, the only native dll that is needed to install Office 2000 is
mfc42, and you can install that with winetricks.
"OLEAUT32.DLL is not incompatible" is displayed in the built-in
oleaut32.dll. I have copied the native OLEAUT32.DLL so.
This way has been reported in several blog in Japan. Previously I was able to
install in this way. (openSUSE 12.1 32bit, Wine 1.4-rc4)
Is this way wrong?

nokami31 wrote:
> OLEAUT32.DLL is not incompatible" is displayed in the built-in
oleaut32.dll.
> 
That message makes no sense. "Not incompatible" would mean that it is 
compatible, and if it is compatible, there would be no reason for any message at
all. So I think you must be misreading whatever the message is.
> 
> Is this way wrong?
I have already told you it is wrong.

nokami31 wrote:
> I have copied OLEAUT32.DLL of install disk to
.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/ .
This is not enough. You need to set it to native in winecfg->libraries tab.

Sorry. I was wrong.
It was displayed with "OLEAUT32.DLL is incompatible version"

I installed mfc42.dll using Winetricks.
I set it in winecfg to use OLEAUT32 of the native.
But failed to install.

nokami31 wrote:
> Sorry. I was wrong.
> It was displayed with "OLEAUT32.DLL is incompatible version"
> 
> I installed mfc42.dll using Winetricks.
> I set it in winecfg to use OLEAUT32 of the native.
> But failed to install.
You should not be using native oleaut32 at all. Remove it.

dimesio wrote:
> You should not be using native oleaut32 at all. Remove it.
OK. I removed native OLEAUT32.DLL and restored built-in oleaut32.dll.
But It was displayed with "OLEAUT32.DLL is incompatible version".

Hi Nokami,

which kind of Windows emulation did you set in winecfg? Probably something like
2000 or XP would be preferable. Maybe you should start with a clean wineprefix
(move/rename .wine folder, a new .wine folder will be created by wine when run
again) and reinstall Office 2000. Would you be able to install an english
version of Office 2000?