James Hawkins wrote:
On 1/1/07, Andreas Mohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all,
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=428D5727-43AB-4F24-90B7-A94784AF71A4&displaylang=en
failed to install with some nice MSI failures when I tried it last
week on a current
Wine version (Ubuntu package 0.9.28, I think).
Does that mean that I'm entitled to assemble a capable lynch mob for
the guys
who were supposed to fix any and all MSI installer issues at
CodeWeavers? ;)
IMHO ppviewer.exe is important since those people who receive some
scripted
PowerPoint file (yes, that's even some "games"!) won't have much luck
with
OpenOffice Impress, so they're fully dependant on getting
ppviewer.exe to work.
This installer works fine for me with git wine.
It is probably the "-2140172307" bug
(http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6998 - Tested by me and Vitaliy)
doing it. Basically it started happening after 0.9.27 to newer
installshield apps. They simply stop installing without error but it
wasn't always and was at a random point (then patches after .28 caused
it to give a crazy error message and now a patch has been submitted to
fix it). The errors seen in the terminal were normal, you tend to get a
lot when installing things but they are rarely critical.
Ex.