Installing MS Word with Wine

[Eberhard Roloff]

Scott wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
Hi,
I did not install it, since I do not have MS-Word 2002, but from my
experience, in any case, make sure that you have a running ie6 before even
trying to install word. ie6 will provide fonts, dlls and the help system
that word will desperately need.
Personally, I found ies4linux to be the easiest for ie installs.
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page

Furthermore, it could be a good idea to upgrade to the recent wine version.
See http://www.winehq.com/site/download-deb

Good luck!
Eberhard