I’m hoping to reduce my useage of windows as much as possible, but a lot of my work revolves around the Office 2007 suite. I found a guide on installing it in SUSE using (Wine Office 2007 on Linux with Wine install guide | Wine Reviews). I tried it once about a week ago but didn’t get anywhere and now I’m trying again. The only thing that changed since is I switched to KDE4 desktop. Right now, I’m at the step where I install msxml3 from winetricks. I may have done this already, I’m not sure, but I’m getting hung up where I can’t access winetricks. I made sure I have it by downloading the package.
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
But then I can’t open it and install packages. I can’t even access the directory it supposedly is in.
linux-sjke:/usr/bin # ls
winetricks
linux-sjke:/usr/bin # cd /usr/bin/winetricks
bash: cd: /usr/bin/winetricks: Not a directory
linux-sjke:/usr/bin # chmod +x winetricks
linux-sjke:/usr/bin # mv winetricks /usr/local/bin
linux-sjke:/usr/bin # cd /usr/local/bin
linux-sjke:/usr/local/bin # cd winetricks
bash: cd: winetricks: Not a directory
linux-sjke:/usr/local/bin # winetricks
/usr/local/bin/winetricks: line 178: kdialog: command not found
linux-sjke:/usr/local/bin # sh winetricks
winetricks: line 178: kdialog: command not found
What gives here? I type ls and it says winetricks is a directory, then I try to change into it and it says it isn’t a directory. I tried installing it and opening it and it says command not found. Am I missing something?
I tried, but it doesn’t work. I set up wine as you said in your tips/tricks. I went to the cd-rom and right clicked setup.exe and clicked open with wine. Then i get an error.
Did you install Office 2007 with wine successfully before? Should I uninstall wine and reinstall a fresh copy to eliminate the changes I made? If so, how would I do this?
I thought of that and that’s what I did earlier today. I got an error trying to install Office 2007. Something about a file being corrupted - install from original source or re download image. I didn’t really get much time to fool with it, though, because I just got VirtualBox working at the end of the day. I’ll try again tomorrow.
VirtualBox seems pretty sweet, though. What do you mean by seamless mode?
From what I remember with getting Microsoft Office 2007 on my linux install (it was the trial version) I had to revert my wine to an older version such as 1.1.7 and then once it’s installed you can upgrade wine again and it’ll still work. There were some features that didn’t work though while trying that way out.
What caf means by seamless mode is installing the guest additions in the virtualbox operating system (be it windows xp, vista, or whatever) so then you don’t have to capture the mouse and keyboard everytime you want to use the mouse and keyboard in virtualbox.
Just for more clarity
Seamless refers not particularly to the Guest Additions (which you need to install) but to the way XP sits in the Linux desktop as just a small panel on top of the Linux Panel. The desktop you see is the Linux desktop unless you press the XP show desktop or open a XP application.
I’ll keep that in mind for wine, but is there any benefit of using wine over virtualbox (besides not having to buy windows XP if you don’t already have it)?
I already installed guest additions… it looks to me that I’ll be able to blow off my windows partition and reclaim that space for linux now that I have a virtual machine running.
I think I figured out the problems I’ve been having. I mentioned setup wasn’t working in VM XP. I figured I’d boot into XP and retry the install of Office2007 there. I tried and it failed there too. It turns out the disk was bad. I made a copy of the disk in Windows XP some time ago and the copy doens’t work. I got a good copy and it installed fine in VM XP. I’m guessing that was also the problem with Wine, but I didn’t try it and don’t plan on it since I think it will work better for me in virtualbox anyways. Sucks the problem was totally unrelated to Wine/Virtualbox, but I guess that just happens sometimes. Thanks for the help.
> where can i download trial version to check if it work with wine for me?
> PS:
> I found it on ms site… so sorry for this post
so I download some from ms site
i start it with installation
err:module:import_dll Library MFC80U.DLL (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\\VISLIB.dll") not found
err:module:import_dll Library MSVCR80.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\\VISLIB.dll") not found
err:module:import_dll Library MSVCP80.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\\VISLIB.dll") not found
err:module:import_dll Library VISLIB.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\\VISIO.EXE") not found
err:module:import_dll Library MSVCR80.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\\VISIO.EXE") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\\VISIO.EXE" failed, status c0000135
but visio did not run after installation… so I think it will needed add thith libraries into wine path
MFC80U.DLL
MSVCR80.dll
VISLIB.dll
MSVCR80.dll
it will need some time to check this
I thought about using OO.o, but the Office2007 interface is just so much nicer. Couple that with the fact that all the work I’ve been doing on my research project this past year was with Office2007 (OO.o just isn’t good enough converting .docx .xlsx files). I really love the equation editor that comes with Word 2007, too. The styles are sweet too. Excel on the other hand kind of pisses me off with how much it crashes.
