[Wine] Re: office 2007 activation (old: Word 2007: file association)

[dimesio]

s710 wrote:
> So, i've been trying a few things to finally get office 2007 to work (activated, that is), but i was not successful. i wiped my current installation as well as removed ~/.wine/, and also upgraded to wine 1.1.17. 
> however, no matter what guide i follow (this (http://www.quicktweaks.com/2008/04/09/install-ms-office-2007-in-linux/#more-5) or this one (http://wine-reviews.net/microsoft/office-2007-on-linux-with-wine-install-guide.html), or simply running the setup from clean wine installation), i fail to even install ms office 2007; setup crashes at 50% progress.


There's a regression in 1.1.17 that broke the Office 2003 installer; looks like it also broke Office 2007.  I'm running a regression test now to confirm it's the same patch.


>   (i did run "winetricks msxml3 dotnet20 gdiplus vcrun2005sp1" after installation).


Why?

Delete or rename your ~/.wine and do a fresh install using 1.1.16. Do not set any overrrides other than riched20, and no winetricks other than allfonts. If you still can't activate, file a bug report.