Office 2010 on Mac with Wine

adammw · Post by **adammw** » Mon May 14, 2012 8:52 pm

Hi,
For some reason, I'm not able to install Office 2010 (Professional Plus) even with the workarounds listed in the appdb page (ie. machine.config and/or installing dotnet) and yet CrossOver (trial) installed it fine, as did the same version of Wine on my Linux PC. I also tried copying over the drive_c and registry from either the Linux PC or the CrossOver install, and running it from Wine on my mac and a similar problem in that it doesn't start up - instead starts running the setup again and complaining of some error.
Has anybody got Office 2010 working on the Mac version of wine, and what could possibly be causing this difference even when they are the same wine version?
Thanks.

Post by **dimesio** » Mon May 14, 2012 10:33 pm

adammw wrote:running it from Wine on my mac and a similar problem in that it doesn't start up - instead starts running the setup again and complaining of some error.

What version of Wine, and exactly what is the error? Post terminal output.

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Tue May 15, 2012 10:06 am

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 6:52 PM, adammw <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,
For some reason, I'm not able to install Office 2010 (Professional Plus)

The folks at CodeWeavers produced changes to the Wine code baseline
that allows Office 2010 to run and those changes either are not
acceptable to the Wine project or have not been fed back to the Wine
project.

Solution for now is to use CrossOver and file bug reports for what
does not work with Wine.

James

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Tue May 15, 2012 10:06 am

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 6:52 PM, adammw <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,
For some reason, I'm not able to install Office 2010 (Professional Plus)

Also, Office for Mac 2011 exists...(I use it.)

James

qparis · Post by **qparis** » Tue May 15, 2012 12:22 pm

On linux, we need winbind to install Office 2010, otherwise the installer crashes. Is there any replacement for OSX ?

adammw · Post by **adammw** » Sun May 20, 2012 6:18 am

I'm forced to use Office for Mac as well, but it's not as good as the Windows version with many features missing or relocated making editing of documents created in Windows difficult as well.

I just tried again (by copying the pre-installed Wine prefix from the crossover install) and got this log if it helps: http://pastebin.com/WKwN7mi3
Trying to run Word brings up the configuration window which crashes when attempting to reboot:

Any idea what patches Crossover did to Wine, if they are public patches that could be manually applied or proprietary, or any other reason Mac Wine is different to linux Wine (could winbind be the problem causing this)?

I don't currently own a CrossOver license, just used the trial, so "just using CrossOver" in the meantime isn't really an option - i'd rather fix the problem in Wine if it is at all possible.

Post by **dimesio** » Sun May 20, 2012 8:06 am

adammw wrote: i'd rather fix the problem in Wine if it is at all possible.

If you want help here, post terminal output from running the installer in plain Wine, and leave Crossover out of the discussion. No one here is going to help you rip off Codeweavers.

adammw · Post by **adammw** » Sun May 20, 2012 9:08 am

That *was* plain wine, I'm not trying to rip off Codeweavers at all. If what makes Office work is all proprietary Codeweavers stuff I'd understand - but I didn't think that it was considering it works fine under plain wine on linux.

Post by **dimesio** » Sun May 20, 2012 9:28 am

adammw wrote:That *was* plain wine,

What you said was

I just tried again (by copying the pre-installed Wine prefix from the crossover install) and got this log

You need to install to a clean wineprefix using plain Wine and post the log from that.

You haven't mentioned what version of Wine you're using. If it's not the latest development release, upgrade.

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Sun May 20, 2012 10:47 pm

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 4:18 AM, adammw <[email protected]> wrote:

I'm forced to use Office for Mac as well, but it's not as good as the Windows version with many features missing or
relocated making editing of documents created in Windows difficult as well.

Not to nit-pick, but I work with Microsoft Premium support people all
day. They prefer the Mac version over the Windows one.

However, if you HAVE to use Office 2010, install the latest Wine
development version from MacPorts or Fink, XQuartz and then install
it. Report back ANY error messages you receive when you run the
installer from terminal. This is after you completely de-install
CrossOver from your system.

James

adammw · Post by **adammw** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 10:12 am

I had forgotten about this problem until today when I tried to install it again.
I tried a fresh install with wine-1.5.26 from Mac homebrew in a fresh prefix from the Office14 CD, which failed miserably like last time (ie. allows install customisation, begins installation, then at about 40% chucks an error and tries to rollback). Full log here: https://gist.github.com/adammw/5263857, screenshot here: http://i.imgur.com/DsIvAf5.png

Also tried with mono-2.1 installed via winetricks, also failed. (Although it should have had winemono built-in anyway)