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Since I work as a network administrator, Microsoft Visio is very important for me to draw network diagram / topology. Although there are many Visio alternatives for Mac such ConceptDraw, LucidChart, SmartDraw, or OmniGraffle according to my opinion they can not replace Visio. It is the best because of its simplicity and easy to use. Another reason is I am already familiar with Visio when running Windows and also already bought the software license so buying another program for this purpose is wasting money. In this article I will not talk about which software is better. I want to show you how to install Microsoft Visio on Mac running OS X El Capitan on top of Wine, thanks to WineHQ team for making this great tool. It should be applicable on previous version of OS X such as OS X Yosemite, OS X Mavericks, and Mac OS X Mountain Lion.
Lets start with the installation process Windows programs can be run on OS X, Linux and BSD via WINE (Windows Emulator) so first we need to install wine and winetricks. We can install wine and winetricks packages using Homebrew, follow how to install Wine on OS X. Brew install wine winetricks Define Visio Home directory Although it is not necessary, it is better to set environment folder for Visio. We will set it under $HOME/.vision2007. Inside your $HOME directory (/Users/yourusername), create.visio2007 directory.
Mkdir.visio2007 Perform Wine initialisation and setup of WINEPREFIX in.visio2007 env WINEPREFIX=/.visio2007 wineboot We need several packages be installed to run Visio 2007. Those packages are gdiplus, msxml6, dotnet20, riched20, and corefonts.
Install them using winetricks as follows: env WINEPREFIX=/.visio2007 winetricks gdiplus env WINEPREFIX=/.visio2007 winetricks msxml6 env WINEPREFIX=/.visio2007 winetricks dotnet20 env WINEPREFIX=/.visio2007 winetricks riched20 env WINEPREFIX=/.visio2007 winetricks corefonts Capture example of installing.Net Framework (dotnet20) is as in image below: After installing the packages above, then run Wine configuration editor (winecfg) env WINEPREFIX=/.visio2007 winecfg In Wine configuration, under Libraries tab make sure that gdiplus, msxml6, riched20 are set to native. See image below! Run Visio setup installation Once the above dependency packages installed and configured, we are ready to run the installation.
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Env WINEPREFIX=/.visio2007 wine /path/to/visio2007/setup.exe After the installation completed and successful, you can run Visio using command below: env WINEPREFIX=/.visio2007 wine /.visio2007/drivec/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office12/VISIO.EXE Visio should be running well without any problem. Create visio script To make it easier to run Visio using Terminal, create a script named as ‘ visio’. Touch visio vi visio Copy and paste the following command into the visio script. Change the ‘ your-username’ accordingly with yours. /usr/bin/env WINEPREFIX=/Users/your-username/.visio2007 /usr/local/bin/wine /Users/your-username/.visio2007/drivec/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office12/VISIO.EXE &/dev/null & Make it executable and then move it into $PATH chmod +x visio sudo mv visio /usr/local/bin/ To run Visio, just type visio in Terminal.
Hi, thanks for the guide, really helpful! I just wanted to contribute in case someone else encounters the same problems I did, while installing visio 2010 on Sierra: Trying to install riched20 I got error “Checksum for /.cache/winetricks/win2ksp4/W2KSP4EN.EXE did not match, retrying download sha1sum mismatch! Rename /.cache/winetricks/win2ksp4/W2KSP4EN.EXE and try again.” It’s because this fails: “Downloading ” Reason: Microsoft has made the download unavailable.
Workaround: search for the url at webarchive.org and download EXE from there and put it in the cache folder “/.cache/winetricks/win2ksp4/”. And I also needed to install Samba for the installation to work. (with homebrew installed just run:) brew install homebrew/boneyard/samba.
Finally successfully installed Visio 2010 on 10.12 Sierra on MBP. Here is some feedback on this article Excellent to have links to background info on installing wine – much appreciated for a newbie — I got errors when installing the packages, complaining about mismatch between 64-bit and 32-bit. So I ended up deleting that first attempt then backtracking to step “Perform Wine initialisation and setup of WINEPREFIX in.visio2007” and ran the following.before. doing anything. EXPORT WINEARCH=win32 — After installation, when I went to start the application it crashed and said it “cannot verify the license”. I tried several things, and eventually some combination worked.
What I tried:. Installing SMBup to install Samba (can download this app from various places). Installing Windows Scripting Host via winetricks (was trying to manually register using the ospp.vsb script). Great info I have visio 2010 up and running on 10.11.6 el capitan works perfectly except for Im unable to save. I get “Cannot create object.” dialog on startup of app, once i click ok, app comes up fine and works as expected except save. I see the same error on startup and on save: err:ole:TLBReadTypeLib Loading of typelib L”Z: Users myuser.visioX drivec Program Files Microsoft Office Office14 VISLIB.dll” failed with error 3 fixme:advapi:RegisterEventSourceW ((null),L”Microsoft Office 14 Alerts”): stub VISLIB.DLL exists at the location referenced.