[cw-discuss] Ubuntu + CXO = Confusion :)

[Phil Stopford]

Hi all,

I'm largely lurking until Wine bug 2398 gets squashed, otherwise I'm
stuck with CXO 3.x for my current purposes *sigh* That said, I did write
my doctoral thesis using CXO 4.x and it never let me down and I keep a 
current version of CXO installed.

Having moved away from SUSE due to its rather poor 10.1 release and the 
rapid fall off in community interest for the superior 10.0 release, I 
found myself installing Ubuntu's latest. It's pretty nice, but CXO seems 
to have a lot of trouble with it:

1) The Loki installer simply refuses to play ball because the home 
directory is not owned by root. This seems related to the non-existence 
of an active root account.

2) Despite the Loki installer being the recommended option, I went ahead 
and installed the debian package. No problems there, but no 
configuration tool is shown at the end. Hmmm. Running :

sudo /opt/cxoffice/bin/cxsetup

gets nowhere because it cannot connect to the X server. Usually 'xhost 
+localhost' and using 'su -' sorts this out, but no such luck here. I'd 
like to set up managed multiple user mode, but there seems no way to do it.

Needless to say, I'm a little confused. Is MMU mode supported under 
Ubuntu, or is CXO stuck with per-user configuration at the moment? 
Calling /opt/cxoffice/bin/cxsetup as a regular user works just fine.

I couldn't come up with anything useful from a trawl around the 
numerous, isolated pockets of information on the CW site (it really, 
really needs a wiki to consolidate the various hints/tips/known issues)

3) Having got per-user mode running (boo! this puts heavy load on disk 
space and makes it much more difficult to update apps), I would have 
liked to be able to install some IE-dependent apps in a Win2K bottle. 
This doesn't seem to be supported because IE is installed into Win98 
instead. This is confusing. I'm wondering which of the following is true :

- Can we install IE into bottles other than Win98, without everything 
going pear shaped?
- If not, is IE emulated somehow in these other bottles, or is there no 
way to reconcile the IE-dependency for Win2K.

I am....confused. Documentation seems to be vague or non-existant. Help 
:) This is what you get when I renew my subscription :b

Phil Stopford.