WINE - HOW TOs...

Scott angrykeyboarder at angrykeyboarder.com
Thu Nov 10 12:50:25 UTC 2005


David M. Carney wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 15:28 +0530, Ashwani Jain wrote:
> 
>>Hi
>>
>>    I am using Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy) and installed wine using synaptic.
>>I copied MS Office XP from cd into home folder and than ran comman
>>wine setup.exe but it returned message 'Ms Office with frontpage can
>>not be installed, windows 98/ME/2000 required for this'
>>
>>How to install MS Office XP on Ubuntu, has any one ever tried, please
>>help if you know
>>
>>
>>Thanks & regards
>>
>>Ashwani Jain
>>Systems Administrator
> 
> 
> Codeweaver's Crossover Office is an excellent product. It was designed
> to make it easy to install Internet Explorer and M$ Office, as well as
> other M$ Windows applications.
> 

And up untill a few weekss ago, it didn't support anything beyond office 
2000.  Now that's finally changed and it supports up through Office 2003.


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