Some days ago I posted some queries as I had been unable to successfully install Office 2003 (Specifically Word 2003 and Excel 2003) to run under wine in a fully up to date F8 system in the KDE 3.5 desktop. Having looked at various older snippets of information from various how-to and guide documents on the web I finally found a method that yielded a working Office 2003 this evening, so I thought I would post the method so that others who may have been just as frustrated as I was could use the same approach. The method for F8 is as follows: First as root: # yum install wine wine-docs (if not already done) Then insert office 2003 cd or mount the iso file: (This assumes a mount point /mnt/tmp has already been made) # mount -o loop,unhide /path/to/office11.iso /mnt/tmp 1) Then as normal user: winecfg Check the audio tab, and accept alsa. Accept the change, and quit from the setup. (Assume that you have previously copied the winetricks script http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks) 2) use winetricks to install gecko, corefonts, msxml3, riched20, riched30 and gdiplus (You may need to do it in stages rather than all at once - I did gecko and corefonts, then riched20 and 30, then msxml3 and finally gdiplus) 3) cd /mnt/tmp Install office 2003 (wine setup.exe), and choose options (I did custom install and chose my options but a typical install is quicker) 4) to disable annoying language bar: $ wine cmd $ c:\>regsvr32.exe /u msutb.dll $ c:\>exit Now use the k menu to run Excel or Word 2003 apps from the wine menu item. Note: Equation Editor fails to work in Word (been bust for a while I think) But at least this works and the frustrating errors when trying run either of these apps without doing the additional steps as above are now cured, at least until wine has fixes in place so that the additional install steps are no longer required. Hope this helps others to get Office 2003 working in F8. I have not tried yet in F9 but perhaps the method will work there also? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
