Wine and MicrosoftOffice 2010 installation

[alfatricolore]

Hello all, i am a new Linux and Wine user

I have a bit of a specialised question for WINE, which i can't solve.

My Linux computers is connected to a virtual network of computer, with me having an allocated area, I am trying to install MS2010 with wine, i downloaded wine installed it.

I insert the CD containing MS Office, at the folder i opened a terminal and executed

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wine setup.exe

, although it gives me a Setup warning

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Network,CDROM and RAM drives are not supported install path. Choose a folder located on a fixed disk of removable drive.

Immediately i thought that i should copy the cd contents on my Desktop so as to have a physical path , is that thought correct?

I did copied it , but the Set Warning continues, and i cannot install the drivers, any idea ??

thank you

[dimesio]

The warning is not about the location of setup.exe, it's about the location you are trying to install to. The Office 2010 installer will refuse to install to a network drive. It's a restriction imposed by Microsoft, and there is nothing you can do about it.

[alfatricolore]

i have located the c-Drive component of my machine and placed the files there but i still get the same.

So i moved away from my network location

[dimesio]

If by "placed the files there" you mean you copied the install files, that's not going to solve the problem. You need to run the installer and when it asks you where to install to, select a directory on a real, physical hard drive.

As for that "c-Drive component," Linux doesn't use drive letters at all, so I doubt what you think is your C: drive is really a physical hard drive. Wine creates a fake C: drive in the wineprefix, which is probably what you're seeing. However, the wineprefix is located by default in in your home directory, which presumably is on the network drive. You can place wineprefixes elsewhere than the default, but you will have to figure out where the real hard drive is on your system, and you will need write access to it. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#wineprefix