Written by Tom Wickline

Wednesday, 06 February 2008 03:35

So we can get Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Publisher working great with wine now, 0.9.52 really makes the difference, were still working on getting Access and Outlook working but things have moved along in testing, we only have one stumbling block…
We need to execute “mount /dev/cdrom -o remount,unhide” and ideally wed do this by using “gnome-mount /dev/cdrom -o unhide” unfortunately we cant as unhide isnt an allowed mount option for gnome mount, and as were not likely to change that any time soon I am wondering if an enterprising hacker can come up with a solution. We can (and probably will) use gksu for ubuntu, but we lack anything similar on fedora, we could possibly provide an update for fedora including the necessary additions to HAL in order to get the unhide option working when we need to use it, this might also work for ubuntu.

Any suggestions on this are welcome, this is our last issue with office 2003 and wed love to get the package out to you.