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When installing Office 2000 with wine. I get the following error:

Installing this product requires the Windows installer. An error occurred when installing
or upgrading the Windows installer.

I can not find any documentation at Franks Corner.

Any advice on installing Office??

Thanks in advance!

Mike D-

Wine Version:
[miked@localhost miked]$ wine -v
Wine 20031212
[miked@localhost miked]$

This is a clean installation of wine 20031212.
[I have tried the most up to date version of wine, but choose this version because of Counter Strike]

OS: Fedora Core 1

Im having the exact same problem, wine version 20040309, fedora core 1.

Could anyone help?

Thanks.

After configuring wine properly you are going to want to go to the Linux equivalent of the file types screen. create a new type. .exe and run program "wine" every program i've tried has worked...

Well I belive that it doesn't work with Office 2000 installer. The program claims that Windows Installer is missing (The program that calls itself "Wizard..") and O2000 installer cannot continue without it. If you have Win2K/linux dual-system; configure wine to use that(windir) partition as the windows OS (I mean, no "fake" - windows) and hope for the best.
(..And maby saving windows registry into an external .reg file and using that as wine's default registry might help a litlle too..)

That is a great idea i never would have thought of that great thank you... Looks like that'll get changed later...

Well, try it, and Let me know how did it go.

Get the Windows Installer for WINE...

Windows 2000 Installer redistro http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
Windows 95/98/ME Installer redisto
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

Another suggestion: try openoffice or something similar: it's compatible with microsoft office and just works under linux. Even if you get programs work under wine you still will have trouble. But that's just my opinion...

You've obviously never tried OpenOffice at 800x600 on a 500mhz laptop, slow, poor fonts and buggy as hell when it comes to MS table behaviour and a very annoying autocomplete on dates... (you can't just enter something like 16/04 without it autocompleting...). This is on Mandrake 10.

When I had Win2000 on it MS Office was breeze.

There are more microsoft officce compatible programs. Don't think you can get office run under wine any better than openoffice: remember you are now using a modern OS, on a bit old laptop. Of course it works slower.

Switching to a lightweight windowmanager can help, but that's quite a big step though...

I have just started with Wine. I run it on MDK 9.2. I did not find a way how I could change the fonts of Wine´s bars. Please help. I suppose you to be experienced yousers when trying to run Office on Wine.

No - I'm stilll using the default font for all the installer, windows etc. On my set up it looks like scruffy handwriting (Comic book sans I think). I don't know the difference between TTF and other font types or how they relate to Windows so I couldn't follow the font section in the wine guide either (which looks too complicated to understand without me reading around loads). If you find out please post here.

In the /usr/bin folder twords the bottom i believe there is a wine setup program in which you can configure the look and feel of WINE programs... but becareful you can destroy curent settings and screw WINE up. Believe me I've done it.