Wine and Office

[Chris Ricker]

On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Jos Houtman wrote:

> On Saturday 23 August 2003 22:18, Klaasjan Brand wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 19:51, Paul Sery wrote:
> > > Has anyone gotten Wine to run MS Word (or Office) under Severn? The
> > > MS installer chokes under Severn.
> >
> > The latest wine version had some updates to msi handling, but no idea if
> > it'l work. If you can spend some $$$ you could look at crossover office,
> > a wine fork built especially to run MS office. I've seen office
> > installing and running fairly well except for a few glitches.
> >
> > Klaasjan
> >
> 
> i got the same problem with cxoffice and a wine snapshot from 20030813.
> i heard of a workaround that would mean copying the /opt/cxoffice and 
> ~/.cxoffice from a machine on which the installation worked fine. 

cxoffice has worked fine for me on severn, at least to the extent I've tried 
it (installed a couple of apps, made sure they started)

later,
chris