Re: a few dumb questions about wine
Hi Michael
Wine is constantly rolling forward, with releases monthly and more. The
do differentiate between 'stable' and 'development' releases - though in
almost every case the 'development' release is what people are running.
Unfortunately debian tends to stick with the 'stable' release, which is
usually quite dated.
The winehq website includes debian packages for the latest versions,
though the current maintainer is deliberately not providing a repository
so that people have to consciously manually install the packages.
Two pieces of advice.
The first is to read the 'appdb' on winehq, as it will provide details
on how well your program will run. It will also provide tricks and work
arounds.
Secondly, if you get the software running you should either not update
wine (unless forced) or be aware that updating wine will occasionally
(though less and less in the last 3-4 years) introduce regressions - so
you might need to then roll back.
Its worth noting that the wine main branch doesnt accept 'hacks' (though
they accept stubs and placeholders). This is why there isnt much support
for cd-rom 'security' etc, meaning that in many cases you will need to
install disk cracks to the software you want to run.
The guys who write wine also have a commercially supported version
called 'crossover office' and 'crossover games' - which have a list of
software they support. These both include hacks to make the softwares
work, and they regression test each release. Revenue from these two
products funds much of wine's development. Oh and they have a free
trial, so you can see if your program works before shelling out any real
money.
I am not associated with these product, nor do i use them, nor am i
endorsing them - i am just pointing out their existence. I do use the
open source wine to play lots of games, and am reasonably familiar with
the dark arts required to occasionally to get windows software running
on linux.
Dean
On 30/12/11 03:43, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Dear Folks,
>
> I tried using wine after a long time. I installed it using synaptic
> and nosed around to see what had happened. I am running squeeze amd64 on
> a newish amd64 novatech box.
>
> I noticed that under the system tools menu window a wine configuration
> icon appeared. I clicked on it and I got a little window appearing
> asking for lib32ns-mdns to be installed to allow internet compatability.
> I installed it.
>
> I also googled about for instructions on using wine. Some sites said
> that the version of wine available in the debian respository was older
> than the latest versions of wine and recommended some solutions to this.
>
> All I want to do is run MSOffice 2010 using it.
>
> I use OpenOffice a lot but everyone I work with uses MSWord and I am
> having difficulty with compatability with image files and anchoring them
> to the page vs characters etc. The .doc format doesn't like the page
> anchoring and the images keep moving around like poltergeists every time
> I save files and re open them again in the .doc format and they keep
> reverting to the character anchoring format from page.
>
> I could also run the MSViewer program in Wine to check for problems and
> fix them as best I can.
>
> I typed mikef@Vigor20:~$ wine ~/.wine/drive_c/'Program Files'/'Internet
> Explorer'/iexplore.exe
>
> and got a blank window appearing with a title saying Wine Windows
> Explorer and then a little prompt asking me to install gecko which I
> clicked on.
>
> Then the blank window reappeared and I got the following output:
>
>
> fixme:ole:CoResumeClassObjects stub
> fixme:shdocvw:go_home stub
> fixme:urlmon:URLMonikerImpl_BindToObject use running object table
> fixme:win:WIN_CreateWindowEx Parent is HWND_MESSAGE
> fixme:iphlpapi:NotifyAddrChange (Handle 0x7db399b8, overlapped
> 0x7db3999c): stub
> fixme:system:SetProcessDPIAware stub!
> fixme:msimtf:CActiveIMM_Create ((nil)
> {08c0e040-62d1-11d1-9326-0060b067b86e} 0x101ef34)
> fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no instance created for interface
> {08c0e040-62d1-11d1-9326-0060b067b86e} of class
> {4955dd33-b159-11d0-8fcf-00aa006bcc59}, hres is 0x80004002
> fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_QueryStatus (0x1255ec)->((null) 1
> 0x32f0a4 (nil))
> fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x1255ec)->((null) 25 2 0x32f0b8
> (nil))
> fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x1255ec)->((null) 26 2 0x32f0b8
> (nil))
> fixme:shdocvw:ClientSite_GetContainer (0x1255ec)->(0x32f0fc)
> fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec
> (0x1255ec)->({000214d1-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} 37 0 0x32f210 (nil))
> fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec
> (0x1255ec)->({000214d1-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} 84 0 (nil) 0x32f248)
> fixme:win:WIN_CreateWindowEx Parent is HWND_MESSAGE
> fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x1255ec)->((null) 29 2 0x32fc38
> (nil))
> fixme:shdocvw:DocHostUIHandler_GetDropTarget (0x1255ec)
> fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec
> (0x1255ec)->({000214d0-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} 69 0 (nil) 0x32fb78)
> fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec
> (0x1255ec)->({000214d0-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} 69 0 (nil) 0x32fb78)
> fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x1255ec)->((null) 26 2 0x32fc18
> (nil))
> fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x1255ec)->((null) 29 2 0x32fc28
> (nil))
> fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec
> (0x1255ec)->({000214d1-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} 103 0 (nil) (nil))
> fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec
> (0x1255ec)->({de4ba900-59ca-11cf-9592-444553540000} 2315 0 (nil) (nil))
> fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x1255ec)->((null) 35 0 (nil) (nil))
> fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x1255ec)->((null) 28 2 0x32fb78
> (nil))
> fixme:shdocvw:ClientSite_GetContainer (0x1255ec)->(0x32fa6c)
> fixme:shdocvw:InPlaceFrame_SetStatusText (0x1255ec)->(0xf76418f9)
>
> Suggestions welcome here.
>
> Regards
>
> Michael Fothergill
>
>
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> fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x1255ec)->((null) 25 2 0x32f978
> (nil))
> fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x1255ec)->((null) 26 2 0x32f978
> (nil))
> fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x1255ec)->((null) 21 2 (nil) (nil))
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