Installation of cxoffice - Virtual Machine & Debian/KDE | Request for Comments

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Audience

• Users that intend to install cxoffice without missing/broken libraries

References

Introduction

This text describes a procedure to install cxoffice on a Debian system.

The procedure was created for an out-of-the box Debian/KDE running in a Virtual Machine.

Special Thanks

My thanks to all the authors and contributors to the publications referenced in this text.

Intended outcome

The aim is to create a procedure for a trouble-free cxoffice installation.
By using a controlled environment, users should be able to recreate it as a reference/starting point in case of issues.
As this environment consists of out-of-the box Debian, the procedure should work for Debian and derivatives.

It would be appreciated, if readers could

• comment on any bugs in this text

• comment on whether they get the same reports of missing libraries

• comment on other issues they experience (ideally with potential fixes/workarounds)

Versions

• Debian 12.10.0 with KDE

• VirtualBox 7.1.8 with GuestAdditions

• cxoffice 25.0.1 (identifies as wine-10.0)

Prerequisites

1. Host with RAMdisk mounted as /mnt/RAMdisk/ and used as SharedDrive, containing

   • installation file crossover_25.0.1-1.deb REF01

2. VirtualBox Virtual Machine

   • 8 cores in this example, adjust as required

   • Debian & KDE

   • user "vbox"

   • no previous cxoffice wine or Wine installation and

   • SharedDrive mounted as /home/vbox/RAMdisk

   with

   • VM-Bi: Virtual Machine, Multi-Arch

     Packages added as part of the GuestAdditions installation

     sudo apt-get install gcc make perl linux-headers-6.1.0.37-amd64 synaptic

     Added i386 architecture

     sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
     sudo apt update

Installing cxoffice

1. Change to SharedDrive

   cd $HOME/RAMdisk/

2. Install cxoffice

   sudo apt-get install ./crossover_25.0.1-1.deb
   
   N: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file '/home/vbox/RAMdisk/crossover_25.0.1-1.deb' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)

3. Correct common issues with cxfix as per REF02

   sudo /opt/cxoffice/bin/cxfix --auto

4. Run checks for missing/broken libraries as per REF02

   sudo /opt/cxoffice/bin/cxdiag
   sudo /opt/cxoffice/bin/cxdiag64

5. Address reported issues using commands described in REF03

   The following table lists

   • the commands needed to install the packages required to address missing/broken libraries (number_name)
   • the cxdiag/cxdiag64 messages/warnings addressed by that particular command (number_Msg-index)

   ID	Command / Message
   01_MissingLibCapi20	sudo /opt/cxoffice/bin/cxfix missinglibcapi20 missinglibcapi20.amd64
   01_Msg-101	[MissingLibCapi20]
   	[MissingLibCapi20.amd64]
   01_Msg-102	"Lib"="libcapi20.so.3"
   01_Msg-103	"Title"="Missing 32-bit libcapi20.so.3 library"
   	"Title"="Missing 64-bit libcapi20.so.3 library"
   02_MissingLibOdbc	sudo /opt/cxoffice/bin/cxfix missinglibodbc missinglibodbc.amd64
   02_Msg-101	[MissingLibOdbc]
   	[MissingLibOdbc.amd64]
   02_Msg-102	"Lib"="libodbc.so.2"
   02_Msg-103	"Title"="Missing 32-bit libodbc.so.2 library"
   	"Title"="Missing 64-bit libodbc.so.2 library"
   03_MissingLibOpencl	sudo /opt/cxoffice/bin/cxfix missinglibopencl missinglibopencl.amd64
   03_Msg-101	[MissingLibOpencl]
   03_Msg-102	"Lib"="libOpenCL.so.1"
   03_Msg-103	"Title"="Missing 32-bit libOpenCL.so.1 library"
   04_MissingLibOsmesa82	sudo /opt/cxoffice/bin/cxfix missinglibosmesa82 missinglibosmesa82.amd64
   04_Msg-101	[MissingLibOsmesa82]
   	[MissingLibOsmesa82.amd64]
   04_Msg-102	"Lib"="libOSMesa.so.8"
   04_Msg-103	"Title"="Missing 32-bit libOSMesa.so.8 library"
   	"Title"="Missing 64-bit libOSMesa.so.8 library"
   05_MissingLibPcap	sudo /opt/cxoffice/bin/cxfix missinglibpcap missinglibpcap.amd64
   05_Msg-101	[MissingLibPcap]
   05_Msg-102	"Lib"="libpcap.so.0.8"
   05_Msg-103	"Title"="Missing 32-bit libpcap.so.0.8 library"
   06_[MissingLibAsound]	sudo /opt/cxoffice/bin/cxfix missinglibasound missinglibasound.amd64
   06_Msg-101	[MissingLibAsound]
   06_Msg-102	"Lib"="libasound.so.2"
   06_Msg-103	"Title"="Missing 32-bit libasound.so.2 library"
   07_MissingGStreamer1Bad2	sudo /opt/cxoffice/bin/cxfix missinggstreamer1bad missinggstreamer1bad.amd64
   07_Msg-101	[MissingGStreamer1Bad2]
   07_Msg-102	"Title"="The gst-plugins-bad 32-bit GStreamer plugins appear to be missing h264parse"
   08_MissingGStreamer1Ugly	sudo /opt/cxoffice/bin/cxfix missinggstreamer1ugly missinggstreamer1ugly.amd64
   08_Msg-101	[MissingGStreamer1Ugly]
   08_Msg-102	"Title"="The gst-plugins-ugly 32-bit GStreamer plugins appear to be missing asfdemux"
   08_Msg-201	[MissingGStreamer1AsfDemux]
   08_Msg-202	"Title"="The gst-plugins-ugly 32-bit GStreamer plugins appear to be missing asfdemux"
   09_MissingGStreamer1Libav	sudo /opt/cxoffice/bin/cxfix missinggstreamer1libav missinggstreamer1libav.amd64
   09_Msg-101	[MissingGStreamer1Libav]
   09_Msg-102	"Title"="The gst-libav 32-bit GStreamer plugins appear to be missing avdec_eac3"
   09_Msg-201	[MissingGStreamer1AvdecVp9]
   09_Msg-202	"Title"="The gst-libav 32-bit GStreamer plugins appear to be missing avdec_vp9"

Starting cxoffice

/opt/cxoffice/bin/crossover

Fin

another great guide. kuddos from me