Wine Help!!! (dotnet20)

[RikerE]

Well, i've changed, altered, searched and meddled the past day or two working at this and have gotten ABSOlUTELY NOWHERE, so hopefully someone on here can help.

To start, i have Ubuntu 8.04 so far, im sticking to LTS for now...

I found a tutorial about how to install Microsoft Office 2007, i have had several errors occur:

1. Can not install dotnet20 , that i think is the biggest problem...

2. Installer USED to run half-way then crash saying "can not find onenote" and to browse to it, i did so and it didn't except that...

3. Now the installer just crashes at the half-way point...

Any help would be nice, i've done everything from using a few dll's from a VISTA pc i own to changing settings around....

[655]

Read this entry on the Wine appDB for general installation help, and the subsequent entries for Office suite apps: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=4992

Read this thread: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/2006-September/023488.html

This thread suggests that using winetricks will install dotnet 2.0 correctly: http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=3254&sid=5de83626718b649a6ba1fac95cb0fbc1

Try going back to that step and getting dotnet working, then see what else happens. I don't use either of the programs in question, so this is just hearsay from what I googled up. The two problems may be unrelated. In any case, do use the winehq site because many problems are documented.

[RikerE]

Im still getting nowhere with MS-Office...

If i were to run the installer on a win. pc and move the files onto my Ubuntu Pc would it work? Or does it conceal some counter-measure in the win. Reg?

(i found out about them trying to put Photoshop on my flash-drive:P)

[655]

What version of Wine are you running? Do this to check:


wine --versionIf you are using the latest dev build, it is 1.1.13, and it will install without any hacks or tricks, according to the WineHQ AppDB entry I referred you to earlier. If you are using an earlier version of Wine (the latest stable version is 1.0), do the following, reposted from the AppDB entry (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=4992): (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=4992%29:)


In current (1.1.3 or newer) Wine, simply install as you would in Windows: insert the cd, and run setup.exe. No overrides are needed to install in Wine 1.1.3 or later.

If using a version of Wine older than 1.1.3, these howtos may be helpful:


Quick Tweaks: Install MS Office 2007 in Linux (http://www.quicktweaks.com/2008/04/09/install-ms-office-2007-in-linux/#more-5) (Danger! Don't download DLLs from random sites on the internet, as this recipe advises! See the Wine FAQ (http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-bb6a7a98ea5016383c4f81717063463e5217c3bf).)
Wine Review: Office 2007 on Linux with Wine install guide (http://wine-reviews.net/microsoft/office-2007-on-linux-with-wine-install-guide.html) (This one is safer; it only has you download .dlls from Microsoft.com and Codeweavers.com.)

Those how-tos are clickable links btw. Note that, once installed, you are going to have to do special things to run it. See the AppDB entry above.

Alternatively, try VMWare (http://www.vmware.com/) if you don't like that degree of configuration.

[RikerE]

Sorry for taking long to get back on here, im still not getting anywhere,

according to that command i have wine

wine-1.1.12

Synaptics Package Manager says this is the latest, i even ran the updater and it said the same...

I found on one site that some had patches to run via "/adminfile patch.msp"

I tried that, and it appeared to work, but could not locate "excel.en-us" which is on the disk......

Though all my other stuff runs fine, even Game-maker, a program which has a long history of INCOMPATABILITY...