programs in "Microsoft Office 2007" don't start

[Pierre Frenkiel]

Binary package hint: playonlinux

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10

apt-cache policy playonlinux
playonlinux:
  Installed: 3.6-1
  Candidate: 3.6-1
  Version table:
 *** 3.6-1 0
        500 http://ftp.crihan.fr karmic/multiverse Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I expect, when I type: playonlinux --run "Microsoft Office Word 2007"
to get a word window
Instead, I get the error message:
    wine: cannot find '/WINWORD.EXE'
Idem for all the programs of the suite.

After looking at the different scripts, I found that all scripts in directory

   $HOME/.PlayOnLinux/configurations/installed

are completely wrong:
How can somebody make 3 so big errors in a 8-line script, errors that
prevent the program to start:

============================================================================
cd "$HOME/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/Office2007/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office12"
docname=${1##*/}
docpath=${1%/*}
cd "$docpath"
wine "/POWERPNT.EXE" "$docname"
============================================================================

1/ the / in the wine command explains the error message
2/ After removing the /, when giving an argument in the call, the 2nd
  "cd" command cancels the 1st one, which gives the error:

   wine: could not load L"C:\\windows\\system32\\POWERPNT.EXE": Module not found

3/ even after correcting these 2 errors, i.e replacing the last 4 lines by just:

   wine "POWERPNT.EXE" $1

   it works only if the given file is in the same directory as the .EXE
   to make it to work, the correct script is:
================================================================================
#!/bin/bash
PATH="$HOME/.PlayOnLinux/WineVersions/1.1.33/usr/bin/:$PATH"
export WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/Office2007"
export WINEDEBUG="-all"
EXE="$HOME/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/Office2007/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office12"
wine "${EXE}/POWERPNT.EXE" $1
================================================================================

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Nov 30 11:57:56 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: playonlinux 3.6-1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LC_TIME=fr_FR
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/ksh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
SourcePackage: playonlinux
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic i686

[Pierre Frenkiel (pierre-frenkiel)]

I forgot to add that the script I gave worked as a separate script
directly run by the user.
To make the original scripts in
    $HOME/.PlayOnLinux/configurations/installed
to work with
    playonlinux --run "Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007" $PWD/file.ppt
one needs to give the absolute path in the call,
because playonlinux does a "cd ..." command before calling them,
So, one must add the following code:

D=`dirname $1`
F=`basename $1`
cd $D
wine "${EXE}/POWERPNT.EXE" $F

[Seth Hikari (sethhikari)]

The scripts don't seem to be part of PlayOnLinux's development and they don't like to accept script errors as bugs because they are made and updated separate

[Pierre Frenkiel (pierre-frenkiel)]

   It's a shame to receive that kind of answer, 5 months after the bug
   report!

On Sun, 25 Apr 2010, Seth Hikari wrote:

>
> The scripts don't seem to be part of PlayOnLinux's development
   "don't seem" or "are not" ?
   with a line like:
      cd "$HOME/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/...
   it has obviously been written by the playonlinux software.
   If that is not the case, where these scripts come from ?

> and they don't like to accept script errors as bugs because they are
> made and updated separate >
   who "they" ?
   and again: if it is not playonlinux, who made them?

--
Pierre Frenkiel

[Aymeric (mulx)]

Hi,

This is a know bug found in older release of PlayOnLinux <3.8.1.

We had started to fix this bug with POL 3.7.3, and this is fully fixed on PlayOnLinux git and so will be fixed with the next release (3.8.2).

I recommend you to always use the last version of PlayOnLinux.

And sorry for long time before answering.

Aymeric.

[Aymeric (mulx)]

Closing this bug report.
No activity, old bug, affect an old version of PlayOnLinux...