[Wine]installing Microsoft Office under wine

[M-Halo]

I don't use the MSOffice, but does the appdb provide
any clues?  I just skimmed there and somebody said
they had it working the a July release after a couple
of DLL switches:
http://appdb.winehq.com/appview.php?appId=31

Hiji


--- Ron Nave <NaveR at FidelityTech.com> wrote:

> I have been unable to install  Microsoft Office 2000
> under wine on 
> several  Fedora Linux machines.  The problem seemed
> to start with the 
> June 2004 release of wine and has persisted for
> every version I have 
> tried up to and including the latest  12/01/2004
> version.
> 
> I have tried both RPM install and compiling from
> source with similar 
> results.
> 
> I have one machine running the May 2004 wine that
> has Fedora release 1 
> installed
> that has  MS Word , Excel , and power point running
> well.
> 
> However,  when I updated my work machine to Fedora 2
> last May Wine failed to
> install the MS Office CD.  I am now running Fedora 3
> and the  problem has
> continued with each version of Wine up to the
> latest.
> 
> I  do not think the problem is necessarily related 
> to the kernel 
> version since , the
> Fedora 1 computer that runs Word has been updated to
> use the latest  
> 2.6.9 kernel and
> a recent version of the KDE desktop.
> The 12/1/2004 version of wine was compiled from a
> tar down load using  
> gcc 3.4.3-3
> 
> The following error messages were displayed when I
> attempted to install  
> The MS OFFIce  Cd
> on a fully updated Fedora 3 computer running  the
> 2.6.9-1.681_FC3smp kernel.
> 
> 
> 
> wine error listing :
> [ronnave at RonsLinuxBox cdrecorder]$ ls
> autorun.inf  MSI          OSESETUP.INF  SETUP.EXE   
> SETUPSE.INI  SYSTEM
> DATA1.MSI    MSOWC.CAB    ows.msi       SETUP.HLP   
> SP           SYSTEM95
> IE5          MSOWC.MSI    PFILES        setup.ini   
> SQL          SYSTEMNT
> LICENSE.TXT  OFFICE1.CAB  README.DOC    SETUPSE.EXE 
> SQLWRAP.EXE  WINDOWS
> [ronnave at RonsLinuxBox cdrecorder]$ wine SETUP.EXE
> Converted windows dir to new entry HKCU\Environment
> "windir" = 
> L"c:\\windows"
> [ronnave at RonsLinuxBox cdrecorder]$
> fixme:msi:MsiEnableLogA 00000516 
> "c:\\windows\\temp\\Office 2000 Professional Setup
> (0006)_MsiExec.txt" 
> 00000000
> fixme:msi:MsiInstallProductW
> L"Z:\\media\\cdrecorder\\data1.msi" L""
> fixme:msi:HANDLE_CustomType1 DATABASE NOT
> THREADSAFE... not starting
> fixme:msi:HANDLE_CustomType1 DATABASE NOT
> THREADSAFE... not starting
> fixme:msi:HANDLE_CustomType1 DATABASE NOT
> THREADSAFE... not starting
> fixme:msi:HANDLE_CustomType1 DATABASE NOT
> THREADSAFE... not starting
> fixme:msi:ACTION_PerformAction UNHANDLED MSI ACTION
> L"AppSearch"
> fixme:msi:HANDLE_CustomType1 DATABASE NOT
> THREADSAFE... not starting
> fixme:msi:HANDLE_CustomType1 DATABASE NOT
> THREADSAFE... not starting
> fixme:msi:HANDLE_CustomType1 DATABASE NOT
> THREADSAFE... not starting
> fixme:msi:HANDLE_CustomType1 DATABASE NOT
> THREADSAFE... not starting
> fixme:msi:HANDLE_CustomType1 DATABASE NOT
> THREADSAFE... not starting
> fixme:msi:HANDLE_CustomType1 DATABASE NOT
> THREADSAFE... not starting
> fixme:msi:HANDLE_CustomType1 DATABASE NOT
> THREADSAFE... not starting
> fixme:msi:HANDLE_CustomType1 DATABASE NOT
> THREADSAFE... not starting
> fixme:msi:ACTION_PerformAction UNHANDLED MSI ACTION
> L"ResolveSource"
> fixme:msi:HANDLE_CustomType1 DATABASE NOT
> THREADSAFE... not starting
> fixme:msi:HANDLE_CustomType1 DATABASE NOT
> THREADSAFE... not starting
> fixme:msi:HANDLE_CustomType1 DATABASE NOT
> THREADSAFE... not starting
> wine: Unhandled exception (thread 000b), starting
> debugger...
> WineDbg starting on pid 0xa
> Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to
> 0x00000018 in 32-bit 
> code (0x001464ca).
> In 32 bit mode.
> Register dump:
>  CS:0073 SS:007b DS:007b ES:007b FS:003b GS:0033
>  EIP:001464ca ESP:006b96ac EBP:006b96ac
> EFLAGS:00210246(   - 00      -RIZP1)
>  EAX:00000000 EBX:0015b6cc ECX:77e26880 EDX:0015d6e8
>  ESI:00000000 EDI:7f43deb8
> Stack dump:
> 0x006b96ac:  006b96dc 0013f754 00000000 006b96d8
> 0x006b96bc:  0015d6e8 0015d4c0 0015d6e8 0015d6e8
> 0x006b96cc:  00000005 0015b6cc 7f43d560 00000000
> 0x006b96dc:  006b96f8 00143d80 7f43df08 00000000
> 0x006b96ec:  0015b6cc 7f43d560 00000000 006b9718
> 0x006b96fc:  00143df2 7f43d560 00000000 00000003
> Backtrace:
> =>1 0x001464ca MSI_RecordGetFieldCount+0x6(rec=0x0) 
> [/usr/tmp/wine-20041201/dlls/msi/record.c:102] in
> msi (0x006b96ac)
>   2 0x0013f754 INSERT_execute+0x9c(view=0x7f43df08,
> record=0x0) 
> [/usr/tmp/wine-20041201/dlls/msi/insert.c:81] in msi
> (0x006b96dc)
>   3 0x00143d80
> MSI_ViewExecute+0x48(query=0x7f43d560, rec=0x0) 
> [/usr/tmp/wine-20041201/dlls/msi/msiquery.c:335] in
> msi (0x006b96f8)
>   4 0x00143df2 MsiViewExecute+0x46(hView=0x3,
> hRec=0x0) 
> [/usr/tmp/wine-20041201/dlls/msi/msiquery.c:360] in
> msi (0x006b9718)
>   5 0x10002f9a AddLocalAlwaysInstalledCA+0xbda in
> customactiondll 
> (0x00000000)
> 0x001464ca MSI_RecordGetFieldCount+0x6 
> [/usr/tmp/wine-20041201/dlls/msi/record.c:102] in
> msi: movl      
> 0x18(%eax),%eax
> 102         return rec->count;
> Wine-dbg>WineDbg terminated on pid 0xa
> 
> 
> 
> 
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