[Bug 5163] Microsoft Office XP 2002 installer reports error 25003 (installation source corrupted), custom action 'CADpc' returns 1603

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5163

Mark <themh at gmx.de> changed:

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--- Comment #104 from Mark <themh at gmx.de> ---
@Anastasius Focht: This analysis from 2008 was a blast to read. Very
educational.

Meanwhile, since the fix to this bug is in staging, I managed to install Office
2002 almost completely working with this method. I thought I might share it for
others who stumble upon this, even though Office 2002 today has probably rather
niche usecases.

1. I used a 32bit wineprefix with Wine 6.11-staging, without installing mono or
gecko. I used PlayOnLinux for easy installation, but you could probably compile
it yourself, too.

2. Install Access, Word, Excel and Powerpoint with the installer. De-select all
autocorrection options in the installer. They won't install properly (probably
another bug) and if you don't de-select them, Office keeps asking to insert the
installation medium at every start.

3. I then copied the prefix in my default wine environment, which is currently
5.0-stable, ran winecfg and changed the mode to Windows XP. It probably runs in
Windows 7 mode, to, but since it's Office XP you might as well put it to the
proper OS version.

4. The installation is now complete. Finally, I manually created 4 launchers
for the progams via alacarte (you can google that if you're unfamiliar with
menu editing)

The launchers have to look similar to that:
env WINEPREFIX="/home/username/.wine-mso" wine-stable
/home/username/.wine-mso/drive_c/Program\ Files/Microsoft\
Office/Office10/WINWORD.EXE

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