[Wine] VBA in MSOffice?
Austin English
austinenglish at gmail.com
Tue Jan 27 09:38:45 CST 2009
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 7:22 PM, dimesio <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
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>> What version of Wine are you using? If it's not the latest, upgrade.
>> $ rpm -q wine
>> wine-1.1.12-1.fc10.i386
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> Upgrade to 1.1.13; 1.1.12 had a lot of problems.
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>> installing, set an override for riched20. There is no need for
>> winetricks; Office installs its own riched20.
>> OK, but winetricks makes the process that much less painful...
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> All you have to do is run winecfg and select riched20 from the drop-down list on the Libraries tab. As I said, there's nothing to actually install.
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>> I'll try this re your comments Bug 11415 and James' comments, comments:
>> cd "/media/Office 2003 Pro/OFFICE";\
>> # Set your preferences
>> WINEPREFIX=~/.MSOffice winecfg;\
>> # Click through the dialogues
>> WINEPREFIX=~/.MSOffice winetricks vb6run riched20 dcom98 gecko;\
>> touch ~/.MSOffice/drive_c/windows/system32/stdole2.tlb;\
>> # Enter Pass-Key
>> WINEPREFIX=~/.MSOffice wine SETUP.EXE;\
>> done
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>> If touch ~/.MSOffice/drive_c/windows/system32/stdole2.tlb isn't
>> sufficient, where can I find a real one?
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> Touch worked for me, but if you're installing dcom98 (why?), it's not necessary, as dcom98 installs a real copy of stdole2.tlb. I didn't install either dcom98 or vb6run.
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There's now a fake placeholder dll for stdole2.tlb in git, so it
shouldn't be necessary.
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-Austin
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