Installing MS Word with Wine

Scott geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com
Sat Oct 14 08:41:21 UTC 2006


mtyoung spake thusy:
> I hope some of you have gone thru this with Wine and can offer some help.
> 
> I just installed Wine using Add/Remove Programs, on an up to date 
> version of Ubuntu 6.06 and the 686 kernel.
> 
> In the terminal "wine /home/mtyoung/.wine/drive_c/windows/notepad.exe", 
> starts up notepad which seems to work fine. Same for "wine 
> /usr/lib/wine/notepad.exe.so".
> 
> When I try to install MS Word 2002 from CD with "wine 
> /media/cdrom0/setup.exe" it starts up okay, but the terminal shows this.

Check this out: http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=520

But personally, I'd just use OpenOffice.org Writer instead.


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