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martel

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Registered: 2009-01-01

Posts: 7

CXOffice -SOLVED

Hey,

Anyone using crossover office on Arch?  I have a pretty good installation of Office 2003 running in my 32-bit chroot, with the exception of Outlook.  It was working, but a recent upgrade seems to have fried it.

It all works pretty well, apart from I can't reply to, new, or forward mail - I get a weird 'operation failed" message box.

Thanks

M

Solved - I don't have the exact details, but it was definitely caused by an Arch update; I went through my pacman log and rolled back all changes from near to when outlook stopped working, and it has now back working again.

Last edited by martel (2009-06-30 11:05:46)

cinan

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From: Slovakia

Registered: 2008-07-04

Posts: 251

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Re: CXOffice -SOLVED

I tried crossover on Ubuntu. Everything OK. I think it's the same on Arch, because crossover is just hacked Wine.

Roberth

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From: The Pale Blue Dot

Registered: 2007-01-12

Posts: 894

Re: CXOffice -SOLVED

Crossover IS wine, just with a nice gui and some fixes to make the applications work.

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martel

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Registered: 2009-01-01

Posts: 7

Re: CXOffice -SOLVED

Well, thanks for that, but I do already know that Crossover is a specialization of wine - I was asking if anyone was having the same problems as I am having with it.

buttons

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From: NJ, USA

Registered: 2007-08-04

Posts: 620

Re: CXOffice -SOLVED

I've seen that happen before to office 2003 on cxoffice. A reinstallation of office on the new version took care of it, though.

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SiC

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From: Liverpool, England

Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 430

Re: CXOffice -SOLVED

I have cxoffice installed, everything works perfectly, with the exception of Outlook and Access, the only reason I was using it was to access my work email, but then I figured it would probably be better just to use Evolution.

martel

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Registered: 2009-01-01

Posts: 7

Re: CXOffice -SOLVED

Well, I have had big big issues with evolution in the past, which is why I'm going down the CXOffice route just now. 

Just now I have Outlook sitting working fine, it downloads mail and calender items, et cetera, but click on new, reply or forward and it blows.

McDuck

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Registered: 2007-03-07

Posts: 41

Re: CXOffice -SOLVED

A recent upgrade to what?

If cxoffice was updated I would suggest that you ask on the crossover forums,
or some other means of getting support from them, after all that is what you pay for .

martel

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Registered: 2009-01-01

Posts: 7

Re: CXOffice -SOLVED

A recent pacman -Syu, because if it was cxoffice, I would ask on the forums there .

And arch is an unsupported distro.

McDuck

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Registered: 2007-03-07

Posts: 41

Re: CXOffice -SOLVED

Fair enough.
Doesn't hurt to try their forums anyways, they seem quite friendly over there.

Here are a couple of suggestions:

I'm not very used to cxoffice, but isn't it possible to run your application from the console, see if
it outputs any errors.

Try and find out which packages were updated and reinstall older ones, trial & error.

Create a temporary account and install cxoffice there to see if the error exists on a clean install.