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Introducing CodeWeavers CrossOver Office
The outstanding Wine system lets you tap the deep resources of the Windows world. Wine is developed under the open source system, where volunteers provide countless hours of service to the computing world. The open source community, however, doesn’t limit the use of its software to only noncommercial use. Software developed under the General Public License (GPL) permits commercial use as long as no restrictions are placed on the original GPL software.The commercial use of open source software can provide an extra punch in certain circumstances. Open source for profit? Indeed. Companies such as CodeWeavers (www.codeweavers.com) and TransGaming (www.transgaming. com) deliver just such a punch. Both companies have added features to the basic Wine software to make the installation process simpler. CodeWeavers concentrates on making Wine easier to use on the general desktop; the company makes installing and using Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, and various plug-ins easy. The TransGaming product WineX, on the other hand, provides a gaming-oriented system.This book is oriented toward using Linux as a useful day-to-day workstation. Our work is tilted toward using word processors and similar programs. We leave it to you to experiment with WineX. Suffice it to say that our game-oriented colleagues find WineX useful.CodeWeavers produces two products: CrossOver Office and CrossOver Plugin. Office provides value as an installation utility that helps with installing Windows applications. The Plugin product provides internally developed software that helps in using plug-ins. CrossOver Office uses mostly unmodified Wine software, but provides a slick installation system. CrossOver Plugin uses its own custom libraries to make Windows plug-ins, such as QuickTime, work with your Linux browser. CrossOver Office costs $54.95 and Plugin costs $24.95. You can purchase both for $69.95. (Those prices are for when you download the product from the Internet. The CD version costs $64.95, $34.95, and $79.95, respectively.)
Downloading the trial version of CrossOver Plugin
CodeWeavers graciously provides a 30-day evaluation license for CrossOver Plugin and CrossOver Office. You can therefore test the full version of its products. These steps describe how to download the trial version of CrossOver Plugin:
Log in to your Red Hat Linux computer as the superuser.
Open Mozilla and go to www.codeweavers.com/products/download_ trial.php.
Click the CrossOver Plugin button at the top of the page.
Fill out the registration form and click the Request Evaluation button.
The Download Trial Version of CrossOver page opens, informing you that instructions for installing CrossOver are being e-mailed to you.
When the information is e-mailed to you, open the this page in Mozilla: http://crossover.codeweavers.com/download/plugin-trial.
The CrossOver Secure Download window opens.
Enter the access key (your e-mail address) and serial number that was just e-mailed to you in the Access Key and Serial Number text boxes.
Click the Download button.
The Downloading install-crossover-plugin-1.2.1-demo.sh dialog box opens.
Click the OK button.
The Enter Name of File to Save To dialog box opens.
Click the Save button and the software is saved to your current directory.
Installing CrossOver Plugin
After you have downloaded the CrossOver Plugin installation system, your next step is to install CrossOver Plugin. These steps describe how to use the installation system to install and configure the software:
Log in as the (root) superuser.
Open a GNOME Terminal window.
Enter the following commands:
chmod +x install-crossover-plugin-1.2.1-demo.sh
./install-crossover-plugin-demo-2.0.2.sh
The License Agreement dialog box opens.
Read the license and click the I Agree button.
The CrossOver Plugin Setup window shows the location where the Plugin software will be installed. The default directory is /opt/cxplugin (which is created for you).
Click the Begin Install button, and the CrossOver Plugin software is installed for you.
When the installation finishes (it can take several minutes), the CrossOver Plugin Setup window displays the message Installation complete.
Click the Configure Now button.
The Plugin Setup window opens.
Click the Install button.
The Install Software window opens, showing a selection of plug-ins you can install.
Click the Next button.
The Browser Selection window opens, showing plug-ins to be installed for both Netscape and Mozilla.
Click the Next button.
The HTTP Proxy Configuration window opens and allows you to configure the plug-ins to work with a Web proxy server. Proxy servers filter the locations you can browse. Enter the information about your proxy, if you have one.
Click the Finish button.
The CrossOver Plugin Setup window opens, as shown in Figure 14-3.
Figure 14-3: The CrossOver Plugin Setup window.
Using CrossOver Plugin
The next phase of the configuration process allows you to choose from numerous popular Windows plug-ins. When you select a plug-in to install, it’s automatically downloaded from the Internet for you. No muss, no fuss.These steps describe how to select and automatically download a Windows plug-in:
Click the Install button and the next CrossOver Plugin Setup window opens.
Figure 14-4 shows the Install Software window.
Click the QuickTime 6 plug-in.
Click the Next button
The Express Install (Recommended) button is selected by default.
Figure 14-4: Selecting plug-ins to download and install.
Click the Next button and the QuickTime 6 plug-in is downloaded from the Internet.
The QuickTime 6 Setup window opens, as shown in Figure 14-5.
Figure 14-5: The QuickTime 6 Setup dialog box.
Click the Next button.
A welcome screen is displayed.
Click the Next button to proceed.
The next window shows the QuickTime license agreement.
Read the license (preferably with a room full of lawyers) and click the Agree button.
The next window shows the installation location in which the QuickTime plug-in will be installed. The default is the simulated Windows directory, which is really the .wine/c/program files directory in your home directory.
Click the Next button.
The Choose Installation Type dialog box opens.
You can select various levels of sophistication. The minimal level (the default) should suffice, so just click the Next button.
When the Select Program Folder opens, click the Next button to select the default folder name: QuickTime.
Take a deep breath because you’re almost home. The next window is the Enter Registration window.
Enter your name and organization, if you have one. (You don’t have to enter a registration number.) Click the Next button.
The last step is to enter any proxy information. If you have a proxy (for example, if your company’s network uses one), obtain the information about it and enter it.
Click the Continue button.The installation system thinks for a while and then displays a progress dialog box as it downloads the QuickTime plug-in from the Internet.
Configuring QuickTime
The final QuickTime configuration process begins when the QuickTime Settings/Introduction window opens. These steps describe how to complete the QuickTime configuration:
Click the Next button and the Connection Speed dialog box opens.
The Connection Speed dialog box wants to know what kind of Internet connection you use.
Select the speed and type of your connection from the pull-down menu and click the Next button.
The Browser Plug-in window opens and wants to know which, if any, MIME settings you want to change.
The default settings should be all right, so click the Next button.
In the File Type Associations window that opens next, you can select which types of files QuickTime should work with. The default option is QuickTime, to work with Mac files (PICT and AIFF, for example).
Make any changes that are appropriate for you and click the Finish button.
The last dialog box asks whether you want to read the README file and or start QuickTime.
Click the Yes, I Want to Launch QuickTime Player button and click the Close button.
The Installation Report window opens, showing information about all your plug-ins.
Click the OK button and control returns to the CrossOver Plugin Setup window.
The CrossOver installation system installs links to the QuickTime player application in addition to the plug-ins. CrossOver also installs menus on the GNOME Main Menu.
Click the GNOME Menu button and choose ProgramsQuickTimeQuickTime Player.
The QuickTime Player opens, as you can see in Figure 14-6.
Figure 14-6: Playing with the QuickTime Player
CrossOver also installs its own utilities. Click the GNOME Menu and open the CrossOver menu. You see several utilities. Click the Plugin Setup option and the Plugin Setup window opens.Technical Stuff The QuickTime plug-in and its supporting software are installed in the .mozilla/ plugins directory in your home directory. You can verify that the plug-in was installed by opening Mozilla and choosing HelpAbout Plugins. Mozilla displays all installed plug-ins.
