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pacohope
I'm not sure what the problem was, but every time I tried to update my
Office 2008 installation, with the 12.1.1 updater, it would say there
was no version of Office to update, even though there was. Perhaps
it's because I have Office 2004 also installed. I need to be
compatible with some Office 2003 Windows users, and 2008 doesn't do it
in a variety of specific places.
So anyways, I figured out how to get the update to apply in 3 easy
steps.
1. Create a script called find_office.sh and put the following
contents in it:
#!/bin/sh
echo "/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008"
exit 0
1.a. Make sure it's executable by setting its execute permissions:
chmod a+x find_office.sh
1.b. Make sure that you put the right path to Office 2008 in the 2nd
line, if you didn't install in the standard path.
2. Go into the .mpkg folder for your updater and move the real
find_office program away. In my case, I had put the updater on my
desktop, so these commands looked like this for me:
cd ~/Desktop/Office\ 2008\ SP1\ Update\ \(12.1.0\)/Contents/Resources
mv find_office find_office.orig
3. Copy your find_office.sh script to that location, and remove
the .sh from its name. E.g.,:
cp ~/find_office.sh ./find_office
Now double-click the Updater. It will work. (At least it did for me)
Incidentally, this made it much faster, since the standard find_office
program roams all over the hard drive looking for Office
installations. It took about 3-4 minutes on my system to do that. My
no-op script, obviously, takes a fraction of the time and works fine,
as far as I can tell.
Cheers,
Paco
Office 2008 installation, with the 12.1.1 updater, it would say there
was no version of Office to update, even though there was. Perhaps
it's because I have Office 2004 also installed. I need to be
compatible with some Office 2003 Windows users, and 2008 doesn't do it
in a variety of specific places.
So anyways, I figured out how to get the update to apply in 3 easy
steps.
1. Create a script called find_office.sh and put the following
contents in it:
#!/bin/sh
echo "/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008"
exit 0
1.a. Make sure it's executable by setting its execute permissions:
chmod a+x find_office.sh
1.b. Make sure that you put the right path to Office 2008 in the 2nd
line, if you didn't install in the standard path.
2. Go into the .mpkg folder for your updater and move the real
find_office program away. In my case, I had put the updater on my
desktop, so these commands looked like this for me:
cd ~/Desktop/Office\ 2008\ SP1\ Update\ \(12.1.0\)/Contents/Resources
mv find_office find_office.orig
3. Copy your find_office.sh script to that location, and remove
the .sh from its name. E.g.,:
cp ~/find_office.sh ./find_office
Now double-click the Updater. It will work. (At least it did for me)
Incidentally, this made it much faster, since the standard find_office
program roams all over the hard drive looking for Office
installations. It took about 3-4 minutes on my system to do that. My
no-op script, obviously, takes a fraction of the time and works fine,
as far as I can tell.
Cheers,
Paco