Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 00:44:12 +0800 From: Yuan Jue <yuanjue02@gmail.com> To: Johan Spee <johan.spee@wanadoo.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD + Wine + Office 2K Message-ID: <200512260044.12812.yuanjue02@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20051225154851.5b68d9a2.johan.spee@wanadoo.nl> References: <20051225154851.5b68d9a2.johan.spee@wanadoo.nl>
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On Sunday 25 December 2005 22:48, you wrote: > Merry Christmas! > > Although winehq.com is not altogether clear about it I get the impression > from other sites that wine should be able to handle office 2000 without any > problems. Some claim they have office XP and even office 2003 running on > FreeBSD (http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~plug/mail_archive/0512/0046.html). I > gave it a try with FreeBSD 6, Wine 0.9.4 and Office 2000 sp3 - > unfortunately it would not even install properly. With wine in the win98 > mode the installation gets stuck in 0% cpu activity, in the winXP mode it > gets stuck in 100% cpu activity. Wine also does not allow me to do a > 'custom' installation. A tree-structure with all the office items is shown, > but it is not possible to check or uncheck any of those. As a consequence > the whole suite is installed, including the 'forbidden' assistant. In win98 > mode I have been able to get Word to open a file, more or less, and then > had to kill wine to close the program. > > Is it actually possible to run office 2000 on FreeBSD? If so, I would > appreciate some tips or hints. > why not try openoffice? just a work around :) -- Best Regards. Yuan Jue
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