I have had the most luck with the PlayOnLinux wrapper for Wine. It
allows for running multiple Wine versions as some version seem to
work better for some programs. It also handles the installation of
those extra binary versions. It has a list of supported apps to
ease the installation process too. I have not tested it lately on
Debian but they do provide package repositories for Squeeze and
Lenny. I would give it a shot if I were you. Could save you a good
deal of time.
Robert
On 12/29/2011 11:43 AM, Michael Fothergill wrote:
Dear Folks,
I tried using wine after a long time. I installed it using
synaptic and nosed around to see what had happened. I am running
squeeze amd64 on a newish amd64 novatech box.
I noticed that under the system tools menu window a wine
configuration icon appeared. I clicked on it and I got a little
window appearing asking for lib32ns-mdns to be installed to allow
internet compatability. I installed it.
I also googled about for instructions on using wine. Some sites
said that the version of wine available in the debian respository
was older than the latest versions of wine and recommended some
solutions to this.
All I want to do is run MSOffice 2010 using it.
I use OpenOffice a lot but everyone I work with uses MSWord and I
am having difficulty with compatability with image files and
anchoring them to the page vs characters etc. The .doc format
doesn't like the page anchoring and the images keep moving around
like poltergeists every time I save files and re open them again
in the .doc format and they keep reverting to the character
anchoring format from page.
I could also run the MSViewer program in Wine to check for
problems and fix them as best I can.
I typed mikef@Vigor20:~$ wine ~/.wine/drive_c/'Program
Files'/'Internet Explorer'/iexplore.exe
and got a blank window appearing with a title saying Wine Windows
Explorer and then a little prompt asking me to install gecko which
I clicked on.
Then the blank window reappeared and I got the following output:
fixme:ole:CoResumeClassObjects stub
fixme:shdocvw:go_home stub
fixme:urlmon:URLMonikerImpl_BindToObject use running object table
fixme:win:WIN_CreateWindowEx Parent is HWND_MESSAGE
fixme:iphlpapi:NotifyAddrChange (Handle 0x7db399b8, overlapped
0x7db3999c): stub
fixme:system:SetProcessDPIAware stub!
fixme:msimtf:CActiveIMM_Create ((nil)
{08c0e040-62d1-11d1-9326-0060b067b86e} 0x101ef34)
fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no instance created for interface
{08c0e040-62d1-11d1-9326-0060b067b86e} of class
{4955dd33-b159-11d0-8fcf-00aa006bcc59}, hres is 0x80004002
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_QueryStatus
(0x1255ec)->((null) 1 0x32f0a4 (nil))
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x1255ec)->((null) 25 2
0x32f0b8 (nil))
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x1255ec)->((null) 26 2
0x32f0b8 (nil))
fixme:shdocvw:ClientSite_GetContainer (0x1255ec)->(0x32f0fc)
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec
(0x1255ec)->({000214d1-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} 37 0
0x32f210 (nil))
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec
(0x1255ec)->({000214d1-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} 84 0 (nil)
0x32f248)
fixme:win:WIN_CreateWindowEx Parent is HWND_MESSAGE
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x1255ec)->((null) 29 2
0x32fc38 (nil))
fixme:shdocvw:DocHostUIHandler_GetDropTarget (0x1255ec)
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec
(0x1255ec)->({000214d0-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} 69 0 (nil)
0x32fb78)
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec
(0x1255ec)->({000214d0-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} 69 0 (nil)
0x32fb78)
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x1255ec)->((null) 26 2
0x32fc18 (nil))
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x1255ec)->((null) 29 2
0x32fc28 (nil))
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec
(0x1255ec)->({000214d1-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} 103 0 (nil)
(nil))
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec
(0x1255ec)->({de4ba900-59ca-11cf-9592-444553540000} 2315 0
(nil) (nil))
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x1255ec)->((null) 35 0
(nil) (nil))
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x1255ec)->((null) 28 2
0x32fb78 (nil))
fixme:shdocvw:ClientSite_GetContainer (0x1255ec)->(0x32fa6c)
fixme:shdocvw:InPlaceFrame_SetStatusText
(0x1255ec)->(0xf76418f9)
Suggestions welcome here.
Regards
Michael Fothergill
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x1255ec)->((null) 25 2
0x32f978 (nil))
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x1255ec)->((null) 26 2
0x32f978 (nil))
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x1255ec)->((null) 21 2
(nil) (nil))
--
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