wine + office XP on FC2
 

I installed wine (wine-20040615-1fc1winehq.i686.rpm ) yesterday on my laptop yesterday.
Its a dual boot machine with Fedora core 2 & win Xp (fat32 filesystem).

I had to add the line
echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield
to ensure that there would be no segfaults.
I am able to run some basic windows program with out any trouble (notepad, TMpegEnc etc)

However, when I try to run officeXP, it seems to load ok.
It spits out a bunch of errors/warnings and then a error window appears informing me that "Microsoft Word has encountered a problem and it needs to close. We apologize for the inconvenience" It further gives me the option to restart word.. But clicking restart brings up the same error. This is error window is a microsoft error window and is part of Word software. So clearly wine is successful atleast in loading word partly.

Here are the erros

> wine winword.exe
When you are running with a native NT directory specify
'Profile=<profiledirectory>' or disable loading of Windows
registry (LoadWindowsRegistryFiles=N)
file_set_error: No such device or address
fixme:seh:EXC_RtlRaiseException call to unimplemented function msi.dll.MsiSetExternalUIW
fixme:imm:ImmDisableIME (-1): stub
fixme:wininet:InternetGetConnectedState always returning LAN connection.


Setting "LoadWindowsRegistryFiles=N ' in the config file removes the first warning message, but winword still gives the same error.

Has anyone got wine to work correctly with OfficeXp. If you have can you pl send me the config file that you used? I understand that codeweaver's version can run office. But I wanted to first see if i can get the current wine version to work with office directly.

Oh.. another thing: The office version that I am running is from original installtion of windows.. i.e. it was not installed through wine.


Any help you can give would be really appreciated.

Thanks
-Anand

I'd suggest you get a copy of codeweavers crossover. It's only $40 and it makes wine a lot easier to use.

office 2000 runs perfectly. office 2002 (I think that's XP) is said to run, tho there are issues I believe. word 2003 is said not to run.

If things don't run, or don't run well on crossoever wine, then they probably will run worse on free wine. But crossoever is cheap enough to at least try it - and it has a free 30 day demo...

Well.. i will certainly try it if I can't get the free wine to work.
I don't want to give up on the free wine until I make a solid attempt at getting it to work.

Sorry :-) I didn't read your post carefully enough :-) I see you mention crossover already.

I am going to be trying free wine with office on another PC in the next week or so and I'll try a few things there.