Re: i need to run office 11 in my debian sarge amd64, any idea?
I was under the impression that updates for Office 11
were currently broken in wine, is this true or did you
find a way around it?
--- Sven Krahn <sven.krahn@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/7/05, Frank <hugelmopf@web.de> wrote:
> >
> > Sven,
> >
> > would you mind sharing the steps you took to get
> Wine working? If you have
> > enough time, possibly including IE?
> >
>
> Sure, no problem. While checking my installation I
> have to correct myself -
> Wine runs in the ia32 chroot and not proprietary
> under amd64. But once you
> have a chroot this does not really matter anymore.
>
> 1. Implement chroot as described in the amd64-HOWTO
> 2. Go into the chroot (dchroot -d)
> 3. as root: apt-get install cabextract (this is
> needed later on to handle
> Windows cab-files)
> 4. as root: apt-get install wine. I use
> etch/testing, and the wine is
> version 20050628. This is one of the first versions
> not using the config
> file anymore but a Windows registry - so be careful
> when googling for more
> information that you really refer to the correct
> wine version.
> 4. as user: Save your ~/.wine directory to a safe
> place (cp .wine
> .wine.ORIG). This directory contains your WHOLE
> windows directory structure,
> and I strongly recommed that you safe this directory
> before any major
> installation attempt. If something fails with your
> software installations
> you can easily restore your former configuration by
> just restoring the .wine
> directory
> 5. Follow http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/ and
> download and run Sergio's
> script - this really did everything for me.
> 6. The script installs everything in .ies4linux. To
> have standard Debian
> again: mv .ies4linux .wine
> 7. cd ~/.wine/dosdevices
> 8. ln -s /tmp t: (you can choose any other valid
> temp directory but it must
> be symlinked to t: - you can probably change this in
> the registry, but I
> find the symlink much easier)
> 9. your dosdevices should now contain
> c:-->../drive_c, t:-->/tmp, and z:-->/
> (alternatively, you may point z: to your homedir)
>
> It may be necessary to copy some original Windows
> dll files into the wine
> directory, I don't remember this exactly. Best is
> after any new software
> installation that you study very carefully the
> output in the wine console.
> It tells you which dll's are required, and you can
> simply copy them from a
> 'real' Windows C:\windows\system32 to
> ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system. Then
> restart your application and check console output
> again.
>
> Worth a try:
> wineboot ('reboots' your wine-windows)
> winecfg
> regedit
> notepad
>
> This should give you a start. And remember: always
> save ~/.wine before
> installing or configuring anything new...
>
> I have written this out of my mind, maybe I have
> forgotten something. Feel
> free to send me an email if you have a problem
> somewhere or need a more
> specific configuration advise.
>
> --
> Best regards / Mit den besten Grüssen
> Sven Krahn
>
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