[Wine] Make Office 2007 in Ubuntu + Wine, available to all users

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Sat Sep 18 20:49:25 CDT 2010


  On 9/17/10 6:04 PM, dimesio wrote:
> adinugro wrote:
>> Actually, I am still not quite sure with the prefixes. If Install office 2007, is that having different folder in my user .wine folder? If yes, can I just copy this to other user? Does the registry affected?
>>
> Office makes many registry entries, and installs files to more places than just the program directory. Copying only the program directory will not work.
>
Office (all versions) is one of those programs that HAS to be installed 
into Wine.  You just cannot 'copy and paste' it into existence.  This 
was done by Microsoft, not the Wine project.

In other words, find the Office disk and install it.  There are no 
shortcuts to doing this.

James McKenzie



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