24th March 2017, 10:19
Thanks rocky, that did work... but do you know why, until now, Maui [Konsole; wine --version] & Synaptic completely & repeatedly contradicted each other? I don't think i've encountered that before.
The happy news: your procedure is a gem - i now have MS Office 2010 running, as a Proof of Concept, in both those Maui VMs (including the one that still thinks its Wine is 1.6.2, but the Office setup still worked anyway].
I've been testing for a couple of hours [basically since my previous post], & i'm very impressed... compared to my PoL / Office 2010 experience of 2015, your way so far anyway has been completely stable.
There IS one problem though, now, which IS the same as in PoL in 2015... the pgm window [Word / Excel / Ppt] opens up maximised / full-screen, & will not respond to normal manual attempts to resize it/them. I seem only to have 2 choices: work in a maximised window [which i hate, my normal workflow is never like this, but to size the window so i can work in it whilst still seeing various other windows on my desktop (not one on top of another)] OR click the "restore" icon [between the minimise & maximise icons in top rhs corner] which does partly shrink the window but i cannot then move it or drag-size it.
Does this also happen for you? Do you know a solution pls?
The happy news: your procedure is a gem - i now have MS Office 2010 running, as a Proof of Concept, in both those Maui VMs (including the one that still thinks its Wine is 1.6.2, but the Office setup still worked anyway].
I've been testing for a couple of hours [basically since my previous post], & i'm very impressed... compared to my PoL / Office 2010 experience of 2015, your way so far anyway has been completely stable.
There IS one problem though, now, which IS the same as in PoL in 2015... the pgm window [Word / Excel / Ppt] opens up maximised / full-screen, & will not respond to normal manual attempts to resize it/them. I seem only to have 2 choices: work in a maximised window [which i hate, my normal workflow is never like this, but to size the window so i can work in it whilst still seeing various other windows on my desktop (not one on top of another)] OR click the "restore" icon [between the minimise & maximise icons in top rhs corner] which does partly shrink the window but i cannot then move it or drag-size it.
Does this also happen for you? Do you know a solution pls?