On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:39:15 +0200, Klistvud wrote: >> I'm having problem installing Ms Office 2007 under Wine on AMD64 box -- >> when I click the install button I get an endless list of errors in the >> terminal, mainly to do with things being unimplemented. And the install >> progress bar *never progress*. > > Have you tried renaming temporarily your ~/.wine to ~/.wine.old prior to > installing MS Office? . . .
No I didn't have ~/.wine before. A default profile was created the first time I launched Wine. And every time I repeat my installation, I just remove ~/.wine beforehand. > Also, it all "may" depend on which flavor of Windows (XP/Vista/2008...) > you select in Wine Settings. I was following Install MS Office 2007 in Linux http://www.quicktweaks.com/2008/04/09/install-ms-office-2007-in-linux/ So I chose Vista. >> All other distros seems to be fine, as early as more than 2 years ago: > > That was my attitude too, until I discovered that a freshly installed > Debian was fine too; Yes, this is a freshly installed Debian as well, using Squeeze/Sid. $ apt-cache policy wine wine: Installed: 1.0.1-3 Candidate: 1.0.1-3 Version table: *** 1.0.1-3 0 360 http://cdn.debian.net/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages 50 http://cdn.debian.net/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/i8fd3f$7h...@dough.gmane.org