Dear friends:
I have spent the entire evening trying to install Word97 in LM 8.0.
Well, I started my installation of MSWord97 after hearing from a man by the
name of Hoyt, who very kindly shared the basic facts with me. Following his
instructions, I downloaded the itcl rpm, the X11R6-contrib-lib rpm, then
uninstalled my current wine (rpm -e) , downloaded the codeweavers-wine file,
installed it. No problems. No errors. I then read the User's Guide on the
Codeweaver's web site, especially the section pertaining to dual-boot
installation of wine and then proceeded to configure the codeweavers-wine
using its graphical configuration tool. You can get the codeweaver-wine file
and plain English documentation at:
http://www.codeweavers.com/technology/wine/help.php
For the record, I have included the .wine.conf file at the bottom of this
message:
I then tried:
$wine regedit
And the Windows registry appeared.
Then, I tried:
$wine notepad
And it appeared. I was able to write a few lines but could not save the file.
The hourglass kept spinning interminably and I had to shut it down with
Cnt+Alt+Esc.
I then tried to install Word97.
wine m:\setup.exe
(m is the default cd-rom drive in my codeweavers program).
1) When I chose the default /mnt/windows approach, I could not even get setup
to appear on the screen.
2) When I chose the /home/sher/fake_windows route, I succeeded in seeing
setup on the screen and even typed my name and registration number but setup
refused to go any further.
3) When I tried to access my Word97 program directly (it is, after all,
already installed on my Windows partition) with:
wine "c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\WINWORD.EXE"
I did indeed succeed in launching MS Word! But, I could not do anything with
it. It appeared as a window within Linux, but my mouse and keyboard had no
effect on it.
Checking again the documentation on Codeweavers' page, I learned that you
need to run wine as "root" for Windows applications to work in Linux.
Actually, the User's Guide lists three workaround, including one tactic
involving a "root-file" in the user directory (which I tried but in vain) and
another having to do with "umask" (which I did not understand) and something
else that has to do with "shadowing".
So, I have apparently reached a dead-end.
May I ask if I am close to success and, if so, if it's rather simple, could
I ask you for help with this last stage. It would be very useful to have
Word97 in Linux. And, of course, I will publish my instructions on the
Mandrake lists so that others can benefit from your expertise and my
experience.
Thanks so very much.
Below is my wine.conf
Benjamin
[sher@localhost sher]$ cd .wine
[sher@localhost .wine]$ ls
cachedmetrics.:0.0 system.reg userdef.reg
config user.regwineserver-localhost.localdomain/
[sher@localhost .wine]$ cat config
WINE REGISTRY Version 2
;; All keys relative to \\Machine\\Software\\Wine\\Wine\\Config
;;
;; MS-DOS drives configuration
;;
;; Each section has the following format:
;; [Drive X]
;; Path=xxx (Unix path for drive root)
;; Type=xxx (supported types are 'floppy', 'hd', 'cdrom' and 'network')
;; Label=xxx (drive label, at most 11 characters)
;; Serial=xxx (serial number, 8 characters hexadecimal number)
;; Filesystem=xxx (supported types are 'msdos'/'dos'/'fat', 'win95'/'vfat',
'unix')
;; This is the FS Wine is supposed to emulate on a certain
;; directory structure.
;; Recommended:
;; - "win95" for ext2fs, VFAT and FAT32
;; - "msdos" for FAT16 (ugly, upgrading to VFAT driver strongly recommended)
;; DON'T use "unix" unless you intend to port programs using Winelib !
;; Device=/dev/xx (only if you want to allow raw device access)
;;
[Drive A]
"Type" = "floppy"
"Path" = "/mnt/floppy"
"Label" = "/mnt/floppy"
"Device" = "/dev/fd0"
[Drive C]
"Type" = "hd"
"Path" = "/mnt/windows"
"Label" = "/mnt/windows"
"FS" = "win95"
[Drive M]
"Type" = "cdrom"
"Path" = "/mnt/cdrom"
"Label" = "/mnt/cdrom"
"FS" = "win95"
"Device" = "/dev/hdd"
[Drive X]
"Type" = "hd"
"Path" = "/tmp"
"Label" = "Tmp Drive"
"FS" = "win95"
[Drive Y]
"Type" = "network"
"Path" = "${HOME}"
"Label" = "Home"
"FS" = "win95"
[Drive Z]
"Type" = "network"
"Path" = "/"
"Label" = "Root"
"FS" = "win95"
[wine]
"Windows" = "C:\\windows"
"System" = "C:\\windows\\system"
"Path" = "C:\\windows;C:\\windows\\system;X:\\;Y:\\"
"Temp" = "X:\\"
"GraphicsDriver" = "x11drv"
; Wine doesn't pass directory symlinks to Windows programs by default.
; Enabling this may crash some programs that do recursive lookups of a whole
; subdir tree in case of a symlink pointing back to itself.
;ShowDirSymlinks=1
"ShellLinker" = "wineshelllink"
[DllDefaults]
"DefaultLoadOrder" = "native, builtin, so"
[DllOverrides]
"commdlg" = "native, builtin"
"comdlg32" = "native, builtin"
"ver" = "native, builtin"
"version" = "native, builtin"
"shell" = "native, builtin"
"shell32" = "native, builtin"
"lzexpand"
