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Run office 2007 pptview.exe on ubuntu 9.10

Run office 2007 pptview.exe on ubuntu 9.10

I am setting up an old PC on which I have installed Ubuntu 9.10. For viewing powerpoint slides, I first installed the pptview package . This doesn't always seem to work well; in the first example I tried the slide text was almost unreadable. man pptview indicates that the package is based on PowerPoint Viewer 97 which seems very old to me.

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Guest [Entry]

"It turns out the office 2007 pptview.exe does not work under wine if ubuntu is configured with another language than English. Under the default language, it works fine.

As a work-around on the command line, you can launch wine with the default language like this:

LANG="""" wine ~/.wine/<path to application>"
Guest [Entry]

"It turns out the office 2007 pptview.exe does not work under wine if ubuntu is configured with another language than English. Under the default language, it works fine.

As a work-around on the command line, you can launch wine with the default language like this:

LANG="""" wine ~/.wine/<path to application>"