validating MS Office & Adobe acrobat through Wine on Linux

[xlearner]

Hello,

I am having trouble with validating licensed software. I am trying to install two softwares:

- I installed MS-Office 2010 with PlayOnLinux. The installation went well. But I am having trouble validating my installation of MS-Office. I have a valid license key for this software. When the dialog box for entering the license opens up, I am not able to enter anything in the dialog box. So I am not able to validate the installed MS-Office.

- Similarly, I was trying to install Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended. In the course of installation, I come to the screen where the installation process asks me for the license key. When I enter the key, it says that the key is not valid. But the same key worked well on Windows 7.

So can anyone help me fix both these problems? Thanks in advance for your help and cooperation.

Thanks
Xlearner

[dimesio]

The problem with Acrobat is a known bug. http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25102

Regarding Office 2010, the POL script for installing Office 2010 adds overrides that are not necessary and not supported here. While there is a known bug with volume license activation of Office 2010, http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30033, the symptoms you describe are not symptoms of that bug.

If you want further help here, reinstall Office to a clean wineprefix following the instructions in the AppDB.

[xlearner]

Dear dimesio,

Thanks a lot for the reply. I have a question. You said that, "reinstall Office to a clean wineprefix following the instructions in the AppDB". Can you explain how to do that? Can you also explain how to cleanly uninstall the previous version?

Btw I forgot to mention in my previous message that I am running Ubuntu 12.04.

Thanks
Xlearner

[dimesio]

Instructions for installing Office 2010: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=17336

Information on wineprefixes: http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#wineprefix

The easiest way to uninstall an app is to simply delete the wineprefix, but if you have other apps installed there you may not want to do that. You can try re-running the Office installer and selecting uninstall.