Where to, LibreOffice?

[Liam Proven]

On 11 November 2012 19:39, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
> I made a promise to myself to never use pirated software for pay or profit.
> For hobbies like this, I allow myself to pirate things for a test drive
> sometimes if there are no trial licenses, but I'm averse to ongoing use of
> stolen software.  I pay my way.

Fair enough. I am not so morally pure myself ;¬) but actually,
avoiding the need or even the temptation to run knockoffs is one of
the reasons why I prefer to run FOSS OSs - and FOSS apps on Windows.

> On the other hand, I have a licensed copy of Office Pro 2003 sitting idle.
> I just don't know how to set it up under Wine.  I don't know how to set
> anything at all up under Wine, for that matter though I've kind of wished I
> did a few times.

Mount the CD. Open a terminal and go to the mounted volume. At the prompt, type

wine setup.exe

Bosh.

You don't need to be root - by default it installs in your home directory.

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