Re: [SLE] CrossOver Office with SuSE Linux
Chad - Did as you instructed but during the setup of xover office, after completing the install of office 2000 (windows update finishes), I get the xover dialog which reads Installation Report. This is the dialogue where you set the associations of dozens of file types. After selecting the associations (I did this a second time after removing xover and 2000 started over) I pressed the OK button. Instead of it bouncing back up and the install proeeding, everything came to a full stop, nothing more worked, the computer started beeping every 2 seconds - just as it does during boot while trying to locate my SCSI controller - and I have to reboot to stop the beeping and get my system back. This is not a system crash as I can log out and back in but this process does not stop the 2 second interval beeping; only the reboot does that. I can also run other programs while in X but the install is completly hung. I looked at the faq page and thought that item 5.1.4 might be associated with the problem - bad font somewhere - but trying to run that script results in the cursor just sitting at the end of the command; pressing return resilts in a command not found reply as shown below. root@linux:/home/dcjohan > $ ~/cxoffice/bin/uninstaller --cx-log font.log --debugmsg +font -- cursor sits after the word font-- <cr> gives bash: $: command not found root@linux:/home/dcjohan > Any thoughts? dave Chad Whitten wrote:
as root run sh install-crossover-office-1.0.0.sh
it will install and then after the crossover plugin is installed you can pop your office cd in your drive, fire up the crossover plugin and install office.
On Friday 29 March 2002 21:34, you wrote:
Chad -
How do you install this program. I'm dying to play with it to see how well it works but alas I'm not familiar with something that downloads as a shell script: install-crossover-office-1.0.0.sh. Advice please.
dave
Chad Whitten wrote:
http://store.yahoo.com/codeweavers-wine/crosof100dow.html it cost $54.95. i have used their crossover plugin for a few months now (supports realplayer, windows media player, quicktime, word and excel and powerpoint viewer and a few other things) and didnt mind paying for the office plugin (actually other than about 1 or 2 suse distros every year its all i have spent on software in three years) so i could install office and not have to go to the hassle of saving attachments to emails and then going to a windows box and opening them via samba.
the main web site is www.codeweavers.com
when i ran the virus (i run a local mailserver on my linux box that the codeweaver plugin is running on) i setup a few addresses in my outlook address book (within linux using the plugin) then emailed the sexyfun virus to myself. checked my email with outlook - got the message about snow white, etc, clicked on the attachment which is supposed to be a screen saver and then checked the mail queue on my linux box and there were bounced messages in the mail spool to root that were the virus being mailed to the dummy addresses i had setup.
so it seems that the codeweavers folks captured all the essence of Outlook with their plugin. wonder if macro viruses work for excel and word?
On Friday 29 March 2002 08:35 am, you wrote:
Chad Whitten wrote:
i installed the cross-over plugin for office yesterday on suse 7.3 and then installed office 2k. both went flawlessly. after about 15 minutes, i could open word, excel, powerpoint, outlook (even tried the hahaha@sexyfun.net virus and it worked) and internet explorer. opened access but it crashed when i tried to create a new database. but the other apps would open up and let me edit files, create new files, etc just like i was using a windows machine. created icons on my desktop for word and excel (would never use outlook for any reason nor would i use access) and all i have to do is click the icon and bam Word opens - just as fast as it does on a windows box to i might add.
I also installed adobe illustrator and if i can find a copy of quicken lying around the office will try that.
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Chad -
Where did you buy it and what was the cost? I think I would like to give this a run. What did the virus do when you ran it; I very curious?
dave
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