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Thursday, February 16, 2012

How to install Microsoft Office 2010 on Linux with Wine

I installed MS Office Professional 2010 on my Ubuntu computers and it's working fluently.
It is a nerve breaking experience for a Linux new bee to work with open-office for documentation works than their favourite MS Office. New interface and new formats of open office makes them reluctant to take it as a first choice. So this post is for those who are tired of rebooting your system to make small changes in the documentations.
Now you don’t want to reboot your system to get windows™ and MS Office™ to work on your documents. You can do it from any linux distribution with wine.

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1. Install Wine 1.3.35 beta through PPA.

Code:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
Code:
sudo apt-get update
Code:
sudo apt-get install wine1.3
2. Now start a new wine prefix or rename the hidden folder .wine in your Home directory (if you had Wine installed before).

From winetricks,

Choose "Select the default wineprefix" then "Install a windows DLL or component" and from there install the dotnet20 and msxml6, following the instructions.
Again from "Select the default wineprefix" choose "install a font" and select the corefonts.

From winetricks and "Select the default wineprefix" choose run "winecfg". From there go to tab "Libraries" and click on *msxml6 then "Edit" and choose "Native (windows)".

3. Run the MS Office 2010 Professional x86 installer you have.
I used an .exe file. On Wine website they used an .iso mounted (MS Office Pro Plus x86 2010). Choose to install only Word, Excell and Powerpoint.
I used a valid key and the online activation worked perfectly.

During the installation the installer was hang for a while but finally it completed the installation.

4. On winecfg as instructed above to the tab "Libraries" and from "new override for library" click the small arrow and choose to "Add" riched20 and gdiplus. Then click on both, "Edit" and as above change their override to "Native (windows)".

5. Final steps.
Open Word, Excell and Powerpoint to see if they work. Then go to each one to File-options-Trust Center->Trust Center Settings, lower the security to none in every option and uncheck the Enable Protected View options. Word and Excell are working perfectly, the only problem is with Powerpoint which is not very dependable.

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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

MS Office on Wine is a good first step, but still Libre/OpenOffice are better for those who wants to get proper OSS experience.

Randy said...

What do I have to do to get MS Outlook 2010 to work?

pjlfield said...

I am very excited to install Office 2010 on my Ubuntu 10.04 system, but I am having a little trouble. I have updated Wine and installed all the listed libraries, etc... However, after I open the Office 2010 installer I cannot enter my product key (clicking inside the window or the form box does not allow me to type into the box). Any ideas?

pjlfield said...

I am excited to install Office 2010 on my Ubuntu 10.04 system, but I am having a little trouble. After installing all the listed packages, I start the .exe installer for Office. However, after the installer starts, I cannot seem to enter my product key (clicking inside the form box or the window doesn't allow me to type anything in the box). Any ideas?

Unknown said...

Thanks for the notes. I may have to give it a try.

As far as the "Linux Experience"...
After about 4 years of not having any Microsoft software on my computer... I've come to the realization that perhaps Linux is just more of a hassle than it is worth with some things.

I've downloaded a spreadsheet that I'd like to use in OpenOffice/LibreOffice. They open it just fine, but the macros are a nightmare. I miss little features like type-ahead, giving choices for fields in records, or arguments to functions, all of which lack in Star Basic.

I suppose that is the true "Linux Experience". 90% is smooth sailing, 10% just isn't.

Unknown said...

Worked perfectly, thankyou very much!!

Unknown said...

Worked perfectly, thankyou very much!!