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.reg wineserver-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" = "native, builtin"
"lz32" = "native, builtin"
"comctl32" = "native, builtin"
"commctrl" = "native, builtin"
"wsock32" = "builtin"
"winsock" = "builtin"
"advapi32" = "native, builtin"
"crtdll" = "native, builtin"
"mpr" = "native, builtin"
"winspool.drv" = "native, builtin"
"ddraw" = "native, builtin"
"dinput" = "native, builtin"
"dsound" = "native, builtin"
"mmsystem" = "builtin"
"winmm" = "builtin"
"msvideo" = "native, builtin"
"msvfw32" = "native, builtin"
"mcicda.drv" = "native, builtin"
"mciseq.drv" = "native, builtin"
"mciwave.drv" = "native, builtin"
"mciavi.drv" = "native, builtin"
"mcianim.drv" = "native, builtin"
"msacm.drv" = "native, builtin"
"midimap.drv" = "native, builtin"
"wnaspi32" = "builtin"
"icmp" = "builtin"
"imm" = "native, builtin"
"imm32" = "native, builtin"
[x11drv]
; Number of colors to allocate from the system palette
"AllocSystemColors" = "100"
; Use a private color map
"PrivateColorMap" = "N"
; Favor correctness over speed in some graphics operations
"PerfectGraphics" = "N"
; Color depth to use on multi-depth screens
;;ScreenDepth = 16
; Name of X11 display to use
;;Display = :0.0
; Allow the window manager to manage created windows
"Managed" = "N"
; Run Wine windows in desktop. Contains "N" or something like "800x600".
"Desktop" = "800x600"
; Use XFree86 DGA extension if present
"UseDGA" = "Y"
; Use XShm extension if present
"UseXShm" = "Y"
; Enable DirectX mouse grab
"DXGrab" = "N"
; Create the desktop window with a double-buffered visual
; (useful to play OpenGL games)
"DesktopDoubleBuffered" = "N"
; Code page used for captions in managed mode
; 0 means default ANSI code page (CP_ACP == 0)
"TextCP" = "0"
; Use this if you have more than one port for video on your setup
; (Wine uses for now the first 'input image' it finds).
;; XVideoPort = 43
[fonts]
;Read documentation/fonts before adding aliases
"Resolution" = "96"
"Default" = "-adobe-times-"
[serialports]
"Com1" = "/dev/ttyS0"
"Com2" = "/dev/ttyS1"
"Com3" = "/dev/modem,38400"
"Com4" = "/dev/modem"
[parallelports]
"Lpt1" = "/dev/lp0"
[spooler]
"LPT1:" = "|lpr"
"LPT2:" = "|gs -sDEVICE=bj200 -sOutputFile=/tmp/fred -q -"
"LPT3:" = "/dev/lp3"
[ports]
;read=0x779,0x379,0x280-0x2a0
;write=0x779,0x379,0x280-0x2a0
[spy]
"Exclude" = "WM_SIZE;WM_TIMER;"
[registry]
; Paths must be given in /dir/dir/file.reg format.
; Wine will not understand dos file names here...
;These are all booleans. Y/y/T/t/1 are true, N/n/F/f/0 are false.
;Defaults are read all, write to Home
; Global registries (stored in /etc)
"LoadGlobalRegistryFiles" = "Y"
; Home registries (stored in ~user/.wine/)
"LoadHomeRegistryFiles" = "Y"
; Load Windows registries from the Windows directory
"LoadWindowsRegistryFiles" = "Y"
; TRY to write all changes to home registries
"WritetoHomeRegistryFiles" = "Y"
; Registry periodic save timeout in seconds
; PeriodicSave=600
; Save only modified keys
"SaveOnlyUpdatedKeys" = "Y"
[Tweak.Layout]
;; WineLook=xxx (supported styles are 'Win31'(default), 'Win95', 'Win98')
"WineLook" = "Win98"
[Console]
;Drivers=tty
;XtermProg=nxterm
;InitialRows=25
;InitialColumns=80
;TerminalType=nxterm
[Clipboard]
"ClearAllSelections" = "0"
"PersistentSelection" = "1"
[sher@localhost .wine]$
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Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
Benjamin and Anna Sher
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
