Transfer MS Office programs to new computers

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utente2014
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Transfer MS Office programs to new computers

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I'm about to change my computer. I installed under Wine MS Office2007 with regular license on the old PC. I'm afraid Microsoft will not allow me to do more activations so I would like to transfer the entire program with all licenses to the new PC and new installation.
Is there a way to do it directly without reinstalling MS Office?
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Re: Transfer MS Office programs to new computers

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make a copy of your WINEPREFIX folder and move this to your new computer. If you haven't modified your WINEPREFIX, ~/.wine is your WINEPREFIX. This way you move your entire "Windows" installation to your new computer.
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Re: Transfer MS Office programs to new computers

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I have copied the files as shown and copied other required files, the program does not work to cause the following error:

/usr/share/playonlinux/playonlinux --run "Microsoft Word 2007" %F
Looking for python... 2.7.13 - selected
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/playonlinux/python/wrapper.py", line 32, in <module>
import wxversion
ImportError: No module named wxversion

suggestions?

P.S. now use wine-1.8.7 (Ubuntu 1.8.7-1ubuntu1) on debian previous stable wine
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Re: Transfer MS Office programs to new computers

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I install phyton-wxversion now error is:

/usr/share/playonlinux/playonlinux --run "Microsoft Word 2007" %F
Looking for python... 2.7.13 - selected
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/playonlinux/python/wrapper.py", line 33, in <module>
wxversion.ensureMinimal('2.8')
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wxversion.py", line 209, in ensureMinimal
import wx, webbrowser
ImportError: No module named wx

I don't know...
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Re: Transfer MS Office programs to new computers

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PlayOnLinux isn't supported here. Ask for help with it on their forum. Plain Wine doesn't require python.
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Re: Transfer MS Office programs to new computers

Post by Bob Wya »

utente2014 wrote:P.S. now use wine-1.8.7 (Ubuntu 1.8.7-1ubuntu1) on debian previous stable wine
Supported branches of Wine are listed on the WineHQ Debian download page.

Currently these are:
  • 2.0.1 (Stable)
  • 2.10 (Staging)
  • 2.11 (Development)
Wine version 1.8.7 is the last / final release version of the previous Wine Stable branch. This is no longer supported...

Bob
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