Running MS Office 97 under Linux with Wine PDF Print E-mail
Written by Tom Wickline   
Saturday, 15 September 2007 02:32
I'm aware Office 97 is considered out of date software, but if you have a copy laying around and would like to give it a try under Wine here is a easy howto.

This is with a clean configuration directory and running in a 1024x768 virtual desktop.

tom@tom:~$ winecfg
wine: creating configuration directory '/home/tom/.wine'...
fixme:midi:OSS_MidiInit Synthesizer supports MIDI in. Not yet supported.
wine: '/home/tom/.wine' created successfully.

Now change the version that Wine emulates from windows 2000 to windows 98. Next select "Libraries" and set ole32, oleaut32, olepro32, rpcrt4, stdole2.tlb, stdole32.tlb as native (Windows) when you add stdole2.tlb and stdole32.tlb your going to receive a warning just say yes and proceed.



Now go to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 and rename ole32, oleaut32, olepro32 and rpcrt4 to *.bak

If you don't already have a copy of DCOM98 you will need to google and download it. As soon as you have DCOM98 your ready to proceed.

tom@tom:~$ wine dcom98.exe
fixme:midi:OSS_MidiInit Synthesizer supports MIDI in. Not yet supported.
tom@tom:~$





The DCOM98 install wont give you a confirmation of a successful install! So if you want you can go back to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 and double check that DCOM was actually installed.

You will want to grab this tahoma.zip file and uncompress it in your fonts directory.

~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts

The next thing todo is set the Owner and Organization.

$wine regedit; then set the Owner and Organization
[Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion]
[Software\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion]

Mount your Office 97 CD or go to the directory where you have the software saved and start the setup. The setup should run without any errors and complete as successful.
























Word, excel & powerpoint first run.

Word 97

tom@tom:~$ cd /home/tom/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Office/Office
tom@tom:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office$ wine winword.exe





Excel 97

tom@tom:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office$ wine excel.exe
fixme:midi:OSS_MidiInit Synthesizer supports MIDI in. Not yet supported.





Power Point 97

tom@tom:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office$ wine powerpnt.exe
fixme:heap:RtlCompactHeap stub





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