FreeBSD + Wine + Office 2K

[Yuan Jue]

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 :)

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Best Regards.
Yuan Jue