Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Installing Office 2007 On Ubuntu Linux

So you wanna get way from Microsoft but you need to use the most popular and best office suite around... Well look no further as you can now run Office 2007 on the latest version of Ubuntu Linux.
Does it run perfectly? No there are a few minor issues.
Will all feature work from the suite of programs? No
The only ones that work will be Word, Excel, Power Point, Publisher. Do you need more well give WineHQ more time and I am sure others applications will be available.

So lets get to the fun easy task of installing office 2007

First and form most you need to have Ubuntu installed on your desktop / laptop.

Step one
Open up a terminal window

Run these commands.
wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/...t.d/hardy.list -O/etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list

sudo apt-get update

sudo aptitude install wine

wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks

chmod x+ winetricks

sudo aptitude install cabextract

sh winetricks gdiplus riched20 riched30 msxml3 msxml4 msxml6 corefonts tahoma vb6run vcrun6 msi2

Install office like you would on a Windows XP machine

Install office 2007 off of CD... (this is a must will not work any other way)

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