wine problem

Asked by Amir

I was trying to install Microsoft office 2007 by wine using the guide in these two links :http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=844309
http://www.quicktweaks.com/2008/04/09/install-ms-office-2007-in-linux/#more-5
after installing the rpcrt4.dll file just to my desktop i finf problem running wine and when in terminal i type winecfg trying to lunch wine configuration i find the following error:
$ winecfg
err:module:import_dll Library rpcrt4.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\services.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\windows\\system32\\services.exe" failed, status c0000135
err:wineboot:start_services_process Unexpected termination of services.exe - exit code -1073741515
err:module:import_dll Library rpcrt4.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\ole32.dll") not found
err:module:import_dll Library ole32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winecfg.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winecfg.exe" failed, status c0000135

i got two question:
1-how to solve a problem?
2-Does this file(rpcrt4.dll) i had downloaded is dangerous?

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Jose (josea.munoz) said :
#1

Dear Amir,

I can confirm you that rpcrt4.dll is NOT dangerous for your System.

I've been installing 1.1.2~winehq0~ubuntu~8.04-2-0ubuntu1 (Release 1.1 is very important) and reply all the steps from http://www.quicktweaks.com/2008/04/09/install-ms-office-2007-in-linux/#more-5 without problems.

Could you please reinstall wine and tell us your results?

Regards

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Amir (amireazad) said :
#2

Thanks for your confirmation.But im still a little bit about that as well u can check it out in http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-bb6a7a98ea5016383c4f81717063463e5217c3bf what says about dll files.
After removing e reinstalling the problem still remains with following erro to launch winecfg
err:module:import_dll Library rpcrt4.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\services.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\windows\\system32\\services.exe" failed, status c0000135
err:wineboot:start_services_process Unexpected termination of services.exe - exit code -1073741515
err:module:import_dll Library rpcrt4.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\ole32.dll") not found
err:module:import_dll Library ole32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winecfg.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winecfg.exe" failed, status c0000135

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Ben Klein (kleinb1) said :
#3

You should not have any need to install M$ Office. OpenOffice.org comes pre-installed with Ubuntu and is capable of reading all M$ Office files (eg, .doc, .xls, .ppt, ...). The equivalents are:

M$ Word <=> OpenOffice.org Writer
M$ Excel <=> OpenOffice.org Calc
M$ PowerPoint <=> OpenOffice.org Impress
M$ (whatever the drawing program is) <=> OpenOffice.org Draw
M$ Outlook <=> Evolution

Hopes this helps you stay AWAY from a proprietary package.

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Amir (amireazad) said :
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