[KLUG Members] Wine project

Jeremy Leonard members@kalamazoolinux.org
Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:00:52 -0400 (EDT)


I've gotten it to work.

My machine was a dual boot setup. I copied the whole windows dir to a dir
on the linux drive.

I then set the wine config to point to this dir.

Hope this helps.

Just curious, if it's just for office why not use openoffice?

>> Do any of the members of the list server have experience configuring
>> the Wine software for RedHat ver. 8.0 and its use with Microsoft
>> Office 97?  I have downloaded the program and looked at the Winehq web
>> site.  I am just getting started trying to do this and am seeking any
>> hard won experience from any of you.
>
> I've made stabs at using Wine but it never seems to actually go
> anywhere.  I think you only really have two options (a) pay for the
> codeweavers WINE package that is pre-setup/configured and runs things
> like Office or (b) pay for VMware and just host a Windows instance.
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