[luau] Codeweavers Crossover plugin

[Alvin Murphy]

MonMotha wrote:

> This is mostly addressed to Warren, though anyone with experience 
> using the Crossover plugins can respond of course :)
>
> I'm curious as to whether this can be made to work for me.  Since I'm 
> having trouble finding installation procedures, I'm not sure if it is 
> compatible with distributions other than those listed.
>
> I run a homebrew distribution loosely based off of an old slackware 
> 7.0 install.  Most everything has been upgraded.  Of course, slackware 
> doesn't support RPM, APT, or other common packaging formats.  Can the 
> crossover plugin be made to work manually with no more than 
> "reasonable" effor (I don't want to spend more than an hour tinkering 
> if that can be done).
>
> Also, I'm guessing crossover office and normal crossover get along 
> fine?  Most of what I awnt to do is run my old Office97 stuff (I for 
> the life of me cannot find a word processor that isn't bug laden, 
> slow, or lacking in features/configurability: OpenOffice, StarOffice 
> 5.2, abiword, and StarOffice 6.0 Beta tried), but I also might find it 
> useful to run other stuff.
>
> --MonMotha
>
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I am running Mandrake 8.2 and there was no problem downloading and 
installing both programs which comfortably coexist. The only problem I 
had with installing Office 2000 was install routine claiming not to find 
files on the cd; this was covered in the help notes and was a simple 
matter of remounting the cdrom with an "unhide" option.  I am currently 
trying to get wordperfect to run in wine but it may be beyond my 
"hacking" ability. Good luck.