CrossOver Office is easy to install, and there are two methods by which it can be installed: system-wide and user mode. System-wide installation is useful if everyone who logs into the system will use the exact same programs. It is also very useful from a maintenance and control perspective.

CrossOver Office is installed via RPM on most systems.

rpm -ivh crossover-pro-4.0.1.i386.rpm

CrossOver Office provides its own graphical interface for installing Windows programs into its Wine implementation. For example, here is a simple installation of mIRC.

Launch the tool by selecting Red Fedora->CrossOver Tools->Office Setup to bring up the installation tool (Figure A.1)

Figure A.1: CrossOver Office installation tool.

Clicking the Install button will bring the installation screen up (Figure A.2).

Figure A.2: CrossOver Office "Install Software" screen.

Check the Install unsupported software box and click Next >> (Figure A.3).

Figure A.3: CrossOver Office "Install unsupported software" box checked.

Now, specify the full path to the installation executable for the mIRC program (Figure A.4).

Figure A.4: CrossOver Office installation tool specifying path to installation executable for mIRC.

The standard mIRC screens will appear while the CrossOver Office Setup dialog waits for a clean installation of the program (Figure A.5).

Figure A.5: CrossOver Office installation tool installing unsupported software.

Once the installation is complete, CrossOver Office will bring the Setup dialog back to the first screen, showing the newly installed program.