How to Install Microsoft Office on Ubuntu Linux: I've shown you the steps in installing Adobe Photoshop on Ubuntu Linux. This time, allow me teach you how to install Microsoft Word on Ubuntu. As some of you may know, I still use MS Word in favor of OpenOffice.org Writer. So if you are like me or if you have other reasons not to ditch Microsoft Office completely, perhaps you should follow this guide of installing MS Office on Ubuntu or on just about any other Linux distributions.
Note: I was using MS Office 2003 inside Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" but this guide may also work if you are using other MS Office versions or other Ubuntu versions.
Note: I was using MS Office 2003 inside Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" but this guide may also work if you are using other MS Office versions or other Ubuntu versions.
1. Install Wine via Software Center, Synaptic Package Manager or via the command line:
$ sudo apt-get install wine
2. Download winetricks:
$ wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
3. Now install winetricks and other packages:
$ sh winetricks msxml6 gdiplus gecko vcrun2005 ie6
4. Configure Wine by navigating to Applications --> Wine --> Configure Wine, and then set "Windows Version" to Windows Vista inside the Applications tab.
5. From the “Libraries” tab, look for rpcrt4.dll and msxml3.dll and add them to “Existing overrides”. Edit Existing overrides and make sure the load order is set to “Native (Windows)”.
6. Download rpcrt4.dll (.zip) from HERE, and then extract it.
7. From the Wine menu, browse C:\ drive and navigate to windows/system32 directory. Copy the downloaded rpcrt4.dll inside system32 to overwrite or replace the existing rpcrt4.dll.
8. Put Microsoft Office installer, click on setup, and just follow the normal installation process.
9. After installing MS Office, configure Wine again and set Windows version back to Windows XP.
10. You can now use MS Office inside Ubuntu Linux by navigating to Applications --> Programs --> Microsoft Office.
Running MS Office Word 2003 inside Ubuntu 10.04 “Lucid Lynx”
Brian
It is on Karmic Koala, but it shouldn't matter
Suggestion: insert some semilcons in that long command that starts with wget, it won't work this way
Either there is one more missing semicolon in the 1st command and 2nd one is extraneous and useless
OR
1st command should end at current semicolon (preferably),
but then 3) should say "Download wine quick&dirty library/font/anything installation tool"
“Personally, I have all but written off the current generation of computer users. We have had and will have our victories, but the genius of Bill Gates was not in keeping an operating system cobbled together. His genius was understanding human nature and behavior.
He only had to hold monopoly status long enough to ingrain Microsoft Windows into our society. We would do the rest for him. The Anti Trust sanctions leveled against him pale in comparison to the profits realized by his monopolization of the desktop.
We are lazy, and as a rule, most of us would rather deal with the devil we know than the devil we don't. We detest change.
Gates understood that...and built the most powerful business and political lobby in our history based on that knowledge”
http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2009/06/linux-against-poverty-it-is-go.html
Brian
http://www.wine-reviews.net/
Just look in the Archive..
Cheers,
Tom
Another alternative though, you can use Virtual Box and install a Window OS. In this way, you can run almost every window based software.
Here's an example of my installation: http://wsmuniversity.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-to-install-e-sword-in-ubuntu-better.html
What do you think?
sh winetricks msxml6 gdiplus gecko vcrun2005 ie6
Executing wget -O msxml6_x86.msi -nd -c --read-timeout=300 --retry-connrefused --header Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/a/f/eafb8ee7-667d-4e30-bb39-4694b5b3006f/msxml6_x86.msi
msxml6_x86.msi: Permission denied
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Note: command 'wget -O msxml6_x86.msi -nd -c --read-timeout=300 --retry-connrefused --header Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/a/f/eafb8ee7-667d-4e30-bb39-4694b5b3006f/msxml6_x86.msi' returned status 1. Aborting.
Archive: /home/cdjoya/Downloads/winoffice2007-20070404.exe
[/home/cdjoya/Downloads/winoffice2007-20070404.exe]
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /home/cdjoya/Downloads/winoffice2007-20070404.exe or
/home/cdjoya/Downloads/winoffice2007-20070404.exe.zip, and cannot find /home/cdjoya/Downloads/winoffice2007-20070404.exe.ZIP, period.
Any help?
Help please?
Once I click download from webpage, i get this error
/tmp/ReimageRepair-3.exe could not be opened, because the associated helper application does not exist. Change the association in your preferences.
Any help??
sh winetricks msxml6 gdiplus gecko vcrun2005 ie6
Thank you.
Windows Vista update (KB 950759)
Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant
When it tries to download the files, I get an error:
An error occurred downloading the following resource:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/F/6/9/F693B7D8-4984-46FF-9366-480D28E1F2E8/VistaKB950759/IE-Security-x86.msu
Date: 30/10/2010 5:58:23 PM
See the setup log file located at 'C:\windows\temp\VSD73cf.tmp\install.log' for more information.
Any ideas how to resolve it?
fixme:wininet:InternetGetConnectedState always returning LAN connection.
That was a long with a send error report box.
I'm just seeing if I can install Office but it's only out of curiosity, so I can live without it.
help. please.
I found this information on the internet and it works for me:
1. Navigate to the executable and right click on the file
2. Choose 'Open with other Application...'
3. Expand the 'Use a custom command' section
4. Enter the command 'wine' (without the quotes) in the newly exposed box
Now you should be able to start it by right clicking the file, then choose 'Open with' and finally choose 'wine'. It could take some time before something starts happening, but hang in there
If you want to avoid the righ click procedure mentioned the last paragraph you can make the action the default launch action by:
1. Selecting the file and right click it
2. Choose 'Properties'
3. Open the 'Open with' tab
4. Select the 'wine' option
5. Close the dialog
Now all exe files should start like you would start any file.
Hope you are okay now.
At the outset I would like to say that I'm beginner with linux :/
I have ubuntu 10.04 and installed wine. Under wine I have successfully installed Microsoft Office 2003, and works fine. The problem is that I can not open any files from other partitions than linux: for example windows xp partition or external drive. Is there any way to fix it?
That function is included in the rpcrt4.dll library. So i decided to change settings to (built-in, native) and ... done! It worked an actually improved the start up speed.
I recommend to skip stpe 6.
To Anonymous - December 15. Have you tried to create a soft link in $HOME/.wine/dosdevices pointing to other partitions?
It worked for me.
The command should be: "ln --symbolic /media/Data/ g:"
where "/media/Data/ is where the other partition is mounted and "g:" is the unit name that you want to create inside WINE.
Archive: /home/itadmin/Documents/Office2003Lite-SFX.exe
[/home/itadmin/Documents/Office2003Lite-SFX.exe]
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /home/itadmin/Documents/Office2003Lite-SFX.exe or
/home/itadmin/Documents/Office2003Lite-SFX.exe.zip, and cannot find /home/itadmin/Documents/Office2003Lite-SFX.exe.ZIP, period.
i installed wine but when i run window setup, i get an error msg "Microsoft office setup cannot continue because the installation source has been corrupted." any suggestion?
Many Thanks once again
Good how-to though, thanks.
$ sh winetricks msxml6 gdiplus gecko vcrun2005 ie6
To
$ sh winetricks msxml6 gdiplus gecko vcrun2005 ie8
because Microsoft discontinued download and support for IE6. I'm using the updated command, and it works fine.
You saved my hours - if not days..