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Microsoft Office 2007 In Linux With WINE

Posted by timothy on from the drink-the-wine-but-not-the-kool-aid dept.

Kenneth Reitz writes "Wouldn't it be lovely to have a nice, clean installation of Microsoft's Office 2007 Suite to run on your Ubuntu Linux Distribution? For some people, this is the only thing that truly holds them back from an all-Linux environment ... But not anymore! We have compiled a nice, concise set of instructions to help guide you along."

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  1. Ummm....Nope. by JustNiz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    >> Wouldn't it be lovely to have a nice, clean installation of Microsoft's Office 2007 Suite to run on your Ubuntu Linux Distribution?

    Umm nope. I'd rather have a frontal lobotomy. The words nice, Clean, and Microsoft just don't belong in the same sentence. And why sully a nice, clean Linux installation by letting anything from Microsoft come into contact with it? I'll stick with OpenOffice thanks.

  2. How on earth did this get past the Firehose? by Little_Professor · · Score: 5, Informative

    These 'step by step instructions' consist merely of "Install wine" and then "install Microsoft Office from the CD" Blatant blogspam, not worthy of a place on the \. front page

  3. Does not work with the latest wine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Regression in wine 1.1.16 (still in 1.1.17) causes the office 2007 and office xp installers to bomb. This guide only works with older versions of wine.

    Bug: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17600

  4. Executive summary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Install wine

    Get the winetricks script from http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
    Use winetricks to get a bunch of dll files:
    winetricks gdiplus riched20 riched30 msxml3 msxml4 msxml6 corefonts tahoma vb6run vcrun6 msi2

    install MS Office

    There. Was that so hard?