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Re: i need to run office 11 in my debian sarge amd64, any idea?



Am Sonntag, 9. Oktober 2005 22:44 schrieb Robert Isaac:
> 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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Hi,
have a look for crossover office, it's a nice programm like wine. 
Office will work in it.

greetz
Matze.

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