Installing MS Word with Wine

sdavmor sdavmor at systemstheory.net
Tue Oct 17 21:49:40 UTC 2006


Dave M wrote:
> At 01:39 PM 10/14/2006 , mtyoung wrote:
>> What programs DO get used a lot under Wine?
> 
> Look into using winetools to get some of the native MS stuff that you may 
> need for Wine. See:
> 
> http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/
> 
> Winetools seems to have problems with the latest version of Wine but it has 
> a good list of the base packages that you will need. If Winetools will not 
> work, the package will just have to be manually downloaded from Microsoft 
> and installed from the command line.
> 
> For what apps work and what doesnt see:
> 
> http://appdb.winehq.org/appbrowse.php
> 
> 
> -------------------------------
> Dave M
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> Ann Arbor, Mich. USA
> 
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Thanks Dave for the pointer to winetools.
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