[luau] Codeweavers Crossover plugin
Alvin Murphy
amurphy at hawaii.rr.com
Mon Jul 8 21:34:00 PDT 2002
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.
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