I’m certain there’s a way to do this without going thru the menu, but since I don’t run MS-Office very often at all – once a quarter – it isn’t worth figuring out for me. I’ve learned that you need to use the menu to start the applications so specific WINE environment variables are setup. All the applications are listed under Wine → Programs → Microsoft Office. Install as you would in Windows: insert the CD and run setup.exe. Your distro my automatically mount it.Ĭurrent versions of WINE do not require any overrides to install Office 2003 Pro. I did manually mount the cdrom device to access the installer. The MS-Office Installer AppDB Entry in the WINE App DB says nothing special is required to install MS-Office. I’m running the default WINE package, version 1.1.42, for Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) and did the simplest install of MS-Office possible accepting the defaults. If you are running anything before 1.1.36, an update is needed to avoid some important issues – like not being able to open or save files. I’m running 1.1.42 out of the Ubuntu repository. For Debian-based distros, that is: sudo apt-get install wine To get started, simply install WINE from the repository for your distribution. MS-Office has always been a difficult problem for WINE. It works well for most applications that don’t need direct access to video hardware or use back doors into the operating system or depend on other MS-Windows applications to work. Linux users have almost certainly heard of WINE before.
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