To be honest, I was just guessing and trying to get as many of the components as I thought it might remotely need.ĭuring the install, I received this error: I selected: allcodecs, gecko, ie8, msxml6, msxml4, riched20, riched30, and winhttp. Next, I chose to “Install a Windows DLL or component”: Once, winetricks was running, I chose to “Select the default wineprefix”: Note that this assumes you already have a bin directory in your home. Then, I used these commands to download winetricks. Unfortunately, no winetricks RPM exists in the repository, but the Wiki has some nice installation instructions. So, I decided to attempt to install gecko since I had run into issues with it earlier. Power Point would open, no problem, but I couldn’t open a file with it. When closing, I received this error message (I think this is probably the key to all of it):Īfter all this, I still couldn’t open a Power Point Presentation. I chose the option to keep the installation up to date: I chose the over the Internet method, and I was quickly able to complete that:Īfter clicking the menu button in Word, I got the Privacy Options, which I just accepted the defaults: Next, it went through a log configuration process a couple of times:Īfter clicking OK, it let me proceed to the activation window: On the first run, it asked for my name and Initials: After you click Add, you can click the Edit button and change it to “Native(Windows)”. Then, I went to the Library tab and added the riched20.dll in the “New override for library” box. When it was done, I closed the installer:Īfter closing the installer, I reopened Wine Configuration tool. I keep that handy so that I can reenter each time I reinstall Linux.įinally, click the install button to install the software: The first question it asked was the Product key. Next, I put in my Office CD and ran the Setup.exe using Wine: It didn’t ask me the second time, and I made sure the version was set to Windows XP: I just closed all of the configuration windows and reopened the Wine configuration tool again. When, it was done, it asked me again to install Gecko. It attempted to download and install gecko: I said yes (although, I later learned that clicking yes is pointless): Once I opened the Configuration, it asked me if I wanted to install Gecko. For me, I just searched for Wine in the Gnome Shell Applications pane: Supposedly, you can find this in Gnome Classic under: Applications > Wine > Configure Wine. Next, I went into the Wine Configuration screen. It installed about 30Mb of dependencies when it installed:įor me, this installed Wine version 1.3.24: I do have the 64-bit version of Fedora 15 installed though. I think probably the installing the 64-bit version as this screenshot shows was causing my problems. Note: I learned later that I need to install the 32-bit version. Since that wasn’t in the repository, I thought that I would try without it. It did a decent job of getting all of the prerequisites working. Previously, I had used PlayOnLinux with Ubuntu. The first step I took in trying to get Office working was obviously installing Wine. If you are looking on something to develop to make the world better for Linux users, look no more. So, don’t bother with this article if you are trying to figure out how to make it work. Instead, I think I have created more of a how NOT to! By the time I was done with all of this, it didn’t work. So, my thought was to create my own how to. How To Install Microsoft Office 2007 In Ubuntu 9.04.HOW TO INSTALL MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007 IN UBUNTU (UNDER WINE). Unfortunately, the closest I found was these two articles: I needed to install Microsoft Office 2007 on my Fedora 15 installation, and my first step was to look for a tutorial that might help clear up any gotchas before I hit them.
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