I’ve heard a lot of times that windows is a lot easier than Linux, that you cannot easily install programs on linux and so on and so on…so here’s my little story from yesterday.<\/p>\n
A friend came at home today and he had to finish a project for today. His project involved some math problem solving and unfortunately he had chosen Microsoft Office and MathType to do it. So I rebooted my PC from Linux to Windows XP and that’s how about the problems begin. Upon booting to windows various popups started appearing that programs needed update. The anti-virus (I would have nearly forgotten that word while using Linux, unless someone very very close to me ( \ud83d\ude42 ) kept asking over and over about Panda Antivirus, heh), Windows itself, acrobat reader and so on…OK, maybe that was my mistake because I had not booted into windows since last September when I needed it for a project of my own. Then I wanted to install Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word to be exact. I found an old CD of mine with Microsoft Office XP Pro and put it inside the tray…I opened the cdrom drive with Windows explorer and what I saw was…shocking. At least 10 to 15 different executables with weird names and some .msi files. In fact…here’s what the cd contents look like! So there’s 28 files in the root cdrom dir, 11 of these are .exe and 12 are .msi. As far as I can remember .msi files can be “installed” as well. And…surprise surprise!! there’s no “setup.exe” inside…but a bunch of various setup???.exe. What do we do now ? Oh … there’s autorun.inf…that should tell us. shell\\configure=&Configure... shell\\install=&Install... And then …wow! the installation begun!<\/p>\n Is that what windows people call “click and play” ? Ease of Use ? User Friendliness? GIVE ME A BREAK!!!<\/p>\n Do you know how HARD was to install OpenOffice (that has built-in mathematics support, so you don’t need MathType crap) in Gentoo Linux ?<\/p>\n And if it even wanted to install something like “Linux Installer Service” it would have done it without any user intervention because it knows what a dependancy is.<\/p>\n Now…Who is user friendly ? <\/p>\n Every time I have to boot into windows it reminds me how happy I am with Linux \ud83d\ude42 Thanks to all the redmond guys…you ROCK!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve heard a lot of times that windows is a lot easier than Linux, that you cannot easily install programs on linux and so on and so on…so here’s my little story from yesterday. A friend came at home today and he had to finish a project for today. His project involved some math problem […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":4942,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nathlios:\/mnt\/cdrom%ls -1
\naccess.msi
\nautorun.inf
\nexcel.msi
\nfiles
\nfp.msi
\ninstmsi.exe
\ninstmsiw.exe
\nmsde2000
\noffice1.cab
\nork
\noutlook.msi
\nowc10.msi
\nppt.msi
\npro.msi
\nproplus.msi
\nreadme.htm
\nsetupacc.exe
\nsetupexl.exe
\nsetupfpg.exe
\nsetupolk.exe
\nsetuppls.exe
\nsetupppt.exe
\nsetuppro.exe
\nsetupstd.exe
\nsetupwrd.exe
\nsharept
\nstd.msi
\nword.msi
\nathlios:\/mnt\/cdrom%ls -1 | wc -l
\n28
\nathlios:\/mnt\/cdrom%ls -1 | grep .exe | wc -l
\n11
\nathlios:\/mnt\/cdrom%ls -1 | grep .msi | wc -l
\n12
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\n
\nathlios:\/mnt\/cdrom%cat autorun.inf
\n[autorun]
\nOPEN=setuppls.exe \/AUTORUN
\nICON=setuppls.exe,1<\/p>\n
\nshell\\configure\\command=setuppls.exe<\/p>\n
\nshell\\install\\command=setuppls.exe
\n<\/code>
\nIt’s obvious right ? I need to run setuppls.exe!
\nAnd now…time for some problems!
\nEverytime I clicked on setuppls.exe I got this beautiful error message:
\nThe Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. You may be running in Safe mode or Windows Installer may not be correctly installed.<\/code>
\nI tried the other setup???.exe files too…same error again…
\nWhat is Windows Installer Service ? I am surely NOT running in safe mode…and how could I have incorrectly installed something that I don’t know what it is ?
\nAfter some trial and error and some googling I came up to the conclusion that I had to run “instmsiw.exe” first and then the infamous setuppls.exe.<\/p>\nemerge openoffice-bin<\/code><\/p>\n