[pkg-wine-party] Bug#760509: Bug#760509: Bug#760509: wine: Wine : Office 2010 no longer installs usably.

[Michael Gilbert]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote:
> One more, very interesting, datapoint !
>
> wine .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Office/Office14/WINWORD.EXE
> ==> "prepares installation", asks for reboot, fails if reboot
> authorized.

Wine doesn't really support unix paths anymore.  Please try:

wine "c:\program files\microsoft office\office14\winword.exe"

> env WINEPREFIX="/home/charpent/.wine" wine C:\\windows\\command\
> \start.exe /Unix /home/charpent/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/charpent/Start
> \ Menu/Programs/Microsoft\ Office/Microsoft\ Word\ 2010.lnk
> ==> starts right away, no dialog, no asking for reboot.

That works because you're using windows style paths.

Still not sure why you would have seen alternative behavior on other
distributions.

Best wishes,
Mike