From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 25 16:41:34 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC3CC16A41F for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 16:41:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yuanjue02@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6FCA43D49 for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 16:41:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yuanjue02@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 9so988366nzo for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:41:33 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:organization:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=bFDN6yBUn0WGaPU5fW4hL5UX1Nw1hxx4zu4sOaOBTeeTGDzC92HX5dgCC0GMCGPtDElgmzUyZ6kPj79gO4vJZa5+DKuATUkzEeQm96lBTK5+KyM4j0Drg6KAvO/yqfviEpjZ62cnQjgS9Cli/GIzFb+nHnqUinr47AqyruGg1ts= Received: by 10.36.103.3 with SMTP id a3mr2256896nzc; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:41:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from yuanjue.nc6000.org ( [59.66.138.109]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 38sm8147596nza.2005.12.25.08.41.31; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:41:32 -0800 (PST) From: Yuan Jue Organization: Tsinghua UNIV. To: Johan Spee Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 00:44:12 +0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <20051225154851.5b68d9a2.johan.spee@wanadoo.nl> In-Reply-To: <20051225154851.5b68d9a2.johan.spee@wanadoo.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512260044.12812.yuanjue02@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD + Wine + Office 2K X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 16:41:34 -0000 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