Microsoft Office 2007 Home & Student installer won't launch

[snsd]

I'm puzzled. Yesterday, I installed Wine 1.4 on Ubuntu 12.04 and had no problems whatsoever installing Microsoft Office 2007 Home & Student. Today, I tried to install it on an identical computer and when I double click on the setup file, the cursor spins for a while and then nothing happens.

I decided to try it on Mint 14 on my desktop PC and I got the same results. I was able to install other software using Wine.

Finally, I tried Wine 1.6. Same result.

I'm pretty much a newbie in Linux and was pretty happy to load Linux on my Acer C7 chromebook, install wine and then get MS Office up and running. I'm just puzzled why it's not working on my new installations.

Any direction that someone could point me would be sincerely appreciated.

[dimesio]

Post terminal output from current Wine (1.6 or later). http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#get_log

[snsd]

I'm a total newbie to Linux so I hope I've give you the right details. Just to give you the background again:

- this is a brand new Acer C7 Chromebook with a celeron processor running Linux 12.04 - crouton http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/ace ... 42999.aspx

- I have done absolutely nothing out of the ordinary in terms of installation as I wouldn't know how to!

Here's the log file

Warning: memory above 0x80000000 doesn't seem to be accessible.
Wine requires a 3G/1G user/kernel memory split to work properly.

I did a search on this and didn't really understand how to resolve from what I've read.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

[dimesio]

This is what I found; apparently it has to do with your kernel. http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=1905

I assume you didn't compile your own kernel, so you should ask for help on your distro forum.

[snsd]

Thanks for the response.

The link you provided talks about Wine not working at all. It works fine for other installations I've done. I just don't have a clue why it's doing this for Office when it installed perfectly the first time around.

I believe it's a Wine issue as it's happening for me on both Mint and Ubuntu.

Any other direction would be gratefully appreciated.

Thanks!

[dimesio]

What I understood from your initial post is that Wine works on one computer, doesn't work on two others. Is that correct?

[snsd]

Humblest apologies.

As I was writing a response to your question, it suddenly dawned on me that if it worked on one box, why wouldn't it work on an identical box and then why not on a Mint box.

So, I tried installing Office in Windows and it didn't work there either! So I redownloaded the Office installation file and it worked fine. Somewhere along the way, the installation file must have become corrupt.

Anyhow, I'm very sorry but am glad I got it working.

One thing I can say for certain is that Office 2007 runs faster on Linux/Wine than it does on my Intel core i3 Windows 7 box.

Thanks for your help.

Dave