Re: FreeBSD + Wine + Office 2K
On Sunday 25 December 2005 14:48, Johan Spee wrote: Is it actually possible to run office 2000 on FreeBSD? If so, I would appreciate some tips or hints. I understand some people have got it to work using *just* FreeBSD. There is a documented way of doing it where you install Office under wine on Linux, and then transfer the installation to FreeBSD. Try finding it with Google. There is also the option of running a real Windows under qemu. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD + Wine + Office 2K
Merry Christmas! Although winehq.com is not altogether clear about it I get the impression from other sites that wine should be able to handle office 2000 without any problems. Some claim they have office XP and even office 2003 running on FreeBSD (http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~plug/mail_archive/0512/0046.html). I gave it a try with FreeBSD 6, Wine 0.9.4 and Office 2000 sp3 - unfortunately it would not even install properly. With wine in the win98 mode the installation gets stuck in 0% cpu activity, in the winXP mode it gets stuck in 100% cpu activity. Wine also does not allow me to do a 'custom' installation. A tree-structure with all the office items is shown, but it is not possible to check or uncheck any of those. As a consequence the whole suite is installed, including the 'forbidden' assistant. In win98 mode I have been able to get Word to open a file, more or less, and then had to kill wine to close the program. Is it actually possible to run office 2000 on FreeBSD? If so, I would appreciate some tips or hints. Thanks and Happy New Year, in advance -- Johan Spee http://home.wanadoo.nl/johan.spee/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD + Wine + Office 2K
On Sunday 25 December 2005 22:48, you wrote: Merry Christmas! Although winehq.com is not altogether clear about it I get the impression from other sites that wine should be able to handle office 2000 without any problems. Some claim they have office XP and even office 2003 running on FreeBSD (http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~plug/mail_archive/0512/0046.html). I gave it a try with FreeBSD 6, Wine 0.9.4 and Office 2000 sp3 - unfortunately it would not even install properly. With wine in the win98 mode the installation gets stuck in 0% cpu activity, in the winXP mode it gets stuck in 100% cpu activity. Wine also does not allow me to do a 'custom' installation. A tree-structure with all the office items is shown, but it is not possible to check or uncheck any of those. As a consequence the whole suite is installed, including the 'forbidden' assistant. In win98 mode I have been able to get Word to open a file, more or less, and then had to kill wine to close the program. Is it actually possible to run office 2000 on FreeBSD? If so, I would appreciate some tips or hints. why not try openoffice? just a work around :) -- Best Regards. Yuan Jue ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD + Wine + Office 2K
On Monday 26 December 2005 08:11, you wrote: Does OpenOffice have an Access replacement that can read/write M$ access files that can use VBA? I'm guessing not ready for prime time just yet and until *nix get's one (with that cute little VBA debugger), then the rest of us non-server-development-types will be stuck with our less savy co-workers that use Excel and Word for *ALL* their computing needs. It's no good to be the leader if nobody's willing to follow... If you can figure out how to get Office XP working with FreeBSD 6.0, please let me know. sorry, i don't know much about office in Wine. Wish you can get it work :) anybody else knows about it? On Sunday 25 December 2005 22:48, you wrote: Merry Christmas! Although winehq.com is not altogether clear about it I get the impression from other sites that wine should be able to handle office 2000 without any problems. Some claim they have office XP and even office 2003 running on FreeBSD (http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~plug/mail_archive/0512/0046.html). I gave it a try with FreeBSD 6, Wine 0.9.4 and Office 2000 sp3 - unfortunately it would not even install properly. With wine in the win98 mode the installation gets stuck in 0% cpu activity, in the winXP mode it gets stuck in 100% cpu activity. Wine also does not allow me to do a 'custom' installation. A tree-structure with all the office items is shown, but it is not possible to check or uncheck any of those. As a consequence the whole suite is installed, including the 'forbidden' assistant. In win98 mode I have been able to get Word to open a file, more or less, and then had to kill wine to close the program. Is it actually possible to run office 2000 on FreeBSD? If so, I would appreciate some tips or hints. why not try openoffice? just a work around :) -- Best Regards. Yuan Jue ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
