Re: [ubuntu-uk] Word 2002 under Wine?
Paul Webster wrote: Hi Can I expect Word 2002 to run under Wine (on Jaunty)? I tried to install it, but came to a standstill during the installation, as the Word installer demanded a restart I couldn't provide. Paul W. Hi Paul, It's not obvious how to do it, I'd agree on that one. What you need to do is open a terminal and use wineboot. You can find more on wineboot here: http://wiki.winehq.org/wineboot I believe you'll need to run: wineboot -r It suggests on the WineHQ app database that Word 2002 is well supported with the status set to Gold - http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicationiId=10 Alternatively if you're still having problems you might want to consider having a look at CrossOver Office which is a commercial version of Wine with support from Codeweavers. They suggest that Word 2002 is a 'silver' application and is supported: http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=2 CrossOver Office is £25.99 with 6 months of level 3 support but you can also get a 30 day trial version to try it out (good for testing application compatibility) or £44.99 for the Professional version which gives you 1 year of level 2 support. You can find out more about the levels of support here: http://www.codeweavers.com/support/faq/#f There is also a games specific version available which supports popular Windows games (World of Warcraft etc) and also a version of either for the Intel based Mac at the same price. Hope this helps. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Word 2002 under Wine?
Rob Beard wrote: Paul Webster wrote: Hi Can I expect Word 2002 to run under Wine (on Jaunty)? I tried to install it, but came to a standstill during the installation, as the Word installer demanded a restart I couldn't provide. Paul W. Hi Paul, It's not obvious how to do it, I'd agree on that one. What you need to do is open a terminal and use wineboot. You can find more on wineboot here: http://wiki.winehq.org/wineboot I believe you'll need to run: wineboot -r It suggests on the WineHQ app database that Word 2002 is well supported with the status set to Gold - http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicationiId=10 Alternatively if you're still having problems you might want to consider having a look at CrossOver Office which is a commercial version of Wine with support from Codeweavers. They suggest that Word 2002 is a 'silver' application and is supported: http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=2 CrossOver Office is £25.99 with 6 months of level 3 support but you can also get a 30 day trial version to try it out (good for testing application compatibility) or £44.99 for the Professional version which gives you 1 year of level 2 support. You can find out more about the levels of support here: http://www.codeweavers.com/support/faq/#f There is also a games specific version available which supports popular Windows games (World of Warcraft etc) and also a version of either for the Intel based Mac at the same price. Hope this helps. Rob Ok, just looked for non bloat version of Open Office and found it straight away. Its called Go OO here is the url http://lifehacker.com/5084510/go+oo-takes-the-bloat-out-of-openofficeorg Hope that helps. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Word 2002 under Wine?
Rob Beard wrote: Paul Webster wrote: Hi Can I expect Word 2002 to run under Wine (on Jaunty)? I tried to install it, but came to a standstill during the installation, as the Word installer demanded a restart I couldn't provide. Paul W. Hi Paul, It's not obvious how to do it, I'd agree on that one. What you need to do is open a terminal and use wineboot. You can find more on wineboot here: http://wiki.winehq.org/wineboot I believe you'll need to run: wineboot -r It suggests on the WineHQ app database that Word 2002 is well supported with the status set to Gold - http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicationiId=10 Alternatively if you're still having problems you might want to consider having a look at CrossOver Office which is a commercial version of Wine with support from Codeweavers. They suggest that Word 2002 is a 'silver' application and is supported: http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=2 CrossOver Office is £25.99 with 6 months of level 3 support but you can also get a 30 day trial version to try it out (good for testing application compatibility) or £44.99 for the Professional version which gives you 1 year of level 2 support. You can find out more about the levels of support here: http://www.codeweavers.com/support/faq/#f There is also a games specific version available which supports popular Windows games (World of Warcraft etc) and also a version of either for the Intel based Mac at the same price. Hope this helps. Rob Ooh, sorry for all the e-mails, but just noticed that it has a Mac based version as well, and it works on Linux. John. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Word 2002 under Wine?
Paul Webster wrote: Hi Can I expect Word 2002 to run under Wine (on Jaunty)? I tried to install it, but came to a standstill during the installation, as the Word installer demanded a restart I couldn't provide. Paul W. Hi Paul, I'm assuming you've already checked out the winehq appdb, but here's the link anyway: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=versioniId=520 http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=versioniId=520 It says that the installer was not tested, which is perhaps a bit odd but the distro was Gentoo, and the last test date for Ubuntu is mid-2006, on 6.06, but it does say that it installs and runs (the test for that is here: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=versioniId=520iTestingId=4113 http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=versioniId=520iTestingId=4113) The results given were: *What works* Installtion The Programm *What does not* Vey slow *What was not tested* Nearly erverything *Additional Comments * * * So again it says it installs but wasn't tested thoroughly. What restart was it asking for? James -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Word 2002 under Wine?
I dont understand why use it anyway? Openoffice is just as good and its free! 2009/7/9 Paul Webster paulwebbi...@googlemail.com Hi Can I expect Word 2002 to run under Wine (on Jaunty)? I tried to install it, but came to a standstill during the installation, as the Word installer demanded a restart I couldn't provide. Paul W. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Word 2002 under Wine?
Mike Paglia wrote: I dont understand why use it anyway? Openoffice is just as good and its free! 2009/7/9 Paul Webster paulwebbi...@googlemail.com mailto:paulwebbi...@googlemail.com Hi Can I expect Word 2002 to run under Wine (on Jaunty)? I tried to install it, but came to a standstill during the installation, as the Word installer demanded a restart I couldn't provide. Paul W. Good point Mike! Come to think of it, OOo probably has more features than Word 02 anyway! James -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Word 2002 under Wine?
I must admit I have struggled with windows and Linux from a very early stage, as far back as 1992. I just did not want to go down the MS route. I have never believed in it so tried early doors of Slackware then Red hat blah blah blah. I now have gone over to iMAC which I love because of the UNIX back end and of course its not MS (apart from their share holding in apple of course). I have to say publicly that linux has been a struggle its not for your normal windows punter as it takes a bit of thought. I just want to say to the linux users out there going the Linux route is not easy, you just cant download an application and blindly answer Yes...YesYes you have to think about what you are doing. As long as this scenario stays Linux platforms will always be in the background. (well so say I) Linux needs to be as friendly as Windows without the windows price and shit! Ubuntu is a massive step forward but even now not quite up to the windows ease of use. Remember guys I hate the MS so no flames please Mike P 2009/7/9 James Milligan lak...@lake54.com Mike Paglia wrote: I dont understand why use it anyway? Openoffice is just as good and its free! 2009/7/9 Paul Webster paulwebbi...@googlemail.com mailto:paulwebbi...@googlemail.com Hi Can I expect Word 2002 to run under Wine (on Jaunty)? I tried to install it, but came to a standstill during the installation, as the Word installer demanded a restart I couldn't provide. Paul W. Good point Mike! Come to think of it, OOo probably has more features than Word 02 anyway! James -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Word 2002 under Wine?
I have to disagree. Linux (I mean Ubuntu, of course) IS as friendly a Windows. Many things go wrong and are difficult under Windows. Word always crashes first time I use it - OpenOffice.org never does. I find a lot of hardware 'just works' under Ubuntu without the tiresome 'found new hardware' routine. And I find installing new programs a breeze compared with Windows - the repository system makes them easy to find, there is often a wide choice and, of course, you never have to worry whether you can afford it. Friendliness, ease of use, etc are not the main battleground between Windows and Linux. Familiarity is. Various misconceptions about Linux count. For some people like me, there are key program and applications that are missing. But the massive problem for Linux is how to get accepted as a must have OS for OEMs to put onto their products in place of Windows, without having the commercial clout that MS has, which it used to squeeze Linux out of the netbook market. Tony On 9 Jul 2009 at 20:58, Mike Paglia wrote: I must admit I have struggled with windows and Linux from a very early stage, as far back as 1992. I just did not want to go down the MS route. I have never believed in it so tried early doors of Slackware then Red hat blah blah blah. I now have gone over to iMAC which I love because of the UNIX back end and of course its not MS (apart from their share holding in apple of course). I have to say publicly that linux has been a struggle its not for your normal windows punter as it takes a bit of thought. I just want to say to the linux users out there going the Linux route is not easy, you just cant download an application and blindly answer Yes...YesYes you have to think about what you are doing. As long as this scenario stays Linux platforms will always be in the background. (well so say I) Linux needs to be as friendly as Windows without the windows price and shit! Ubuntu is a massive step forward but even now not quite up to the windows ease of use. Remember guys I hate the MS so no flames please Mike P 2009/7/9 James Milligan lak...@lake54.com Mike Paglia wrote: I dont understand why use it anyway? Openoffice is just as good and its free! 2009/7/9 Paul Webster paulwebbi...@googlemail.com mailto:paulwebbi...@googlemail.com Hi Can I expect Word 2002 to run under Wine (on Jaunty)? I tried to install it, but came to a standstill during the installation, as the Word installer demanded a restart I couldn't provide. Paul W. Good point Mike! Come to think of it, OOo probably has more features than Word 02 anyway! James -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Word 2002 under Wine?
Mike Paglia wrote: I dont understand why use it anyway? Openoffice is just as good and its free! This attitude irritates me somewhat. I prefer MS Office (I currently use Office 2008 on my mac) to OpenOffice.org, as the former works well natively, doesn't consume insane amounts of memory, and isn't fugly :) -n -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Word 2002 under Wine?
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:30 AM, William Andersonne...@well.com wrote: Mike Paglia wrote: I dont understand why use it anyway? Openoffice is just as good and its free! This attitude irritates me somewhat. I prefer MS Office (I currently use Office 2008 on my mac) to OpenOffice.org, as the former works well natively, doesn't consume insane amounts of memory, and isn't fugly :) I concur... Openoffice is bloatware of the highest order. If I could be bothered to get an older version of Office working on wine I would - but I don't use office suites enough to do so. It's a shame, really, that Sun decided to go down the bloated route, because the early versions of Openoffice were really quite pleasant to use; I dread to click on a .doc attachment in an e-mail because I know the machine will whirr and click for ages before I actually get to see it. Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
