This howto should help ease the process of installing Microsoft Office 2007 under Wine 1.0 in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. I should note that after all was said and done, I ended up going back to OpenOffice.org and sometimes AbiWord. There were just too many small bugs that made the experience frustrating. If I need to run Office 2007, I now do so in either VMWare or Windows XP.
Get the WineTricks package which will allow you to install needed run times for Microsoft Office 2007.
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
Make the file executable and transfer to your /usr/local/bin directory for easy execution.
chmod a+x winetricks
sudo mv winetricks /usr/local/bin
winecfg
Change the Windows Version to Windows Vista and click Apply.
Go to the libraries tab and add an override for rpcrt4.dll and msxml3.dll, then click OK.
Now you will need to update a needed dll.
mv ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/rpcrt4.dll ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/rpcrt4.bak
wget http://download210.mediafire.com/mvjci9edynsg/njtut9aswdk/rpcrt4.dll
mv rpcrt4.dll ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/
winecfg
mv ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/msxml3.dll msxml3.bak
Run winetricks and install the run times.
winetricks
A popup will appear with a list of run times like below:
Here are the run times I checked:
MS .NET 2.0
fontfix
gdiplus
msi2
msxml3
allfonts
riched20
riched30
vb3run
vb4run
vb5run
vb6run
vcrun2005sp1
vcrun2008
Grab some tea or coffee, this will take a bit… You will now go through a bunch of installers.
Grab your Microsoft Office 2007 CD and install the application. Be patient as it may seem like its stalling around 60% through the process.
RESOURCES
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=4992
http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks
Wineticks gives me NOTHING but install problems. I have not had one package install correctly. I would really love for this to work…
Update –
A few packages have installed but stuff like DotNet 2.0 requires MSI 3.0 which is not in the winetricks list. all fonts returns a status error of 1 and other return a status error of 103… Not sure what to do…
Something wrong with this url
http://download210.mediafire.com/mvjci9edynsg/njt…
This instead work http://www.mediafire.com/?njtut9aswdk
I've ran into a host of issues trying to run office 2k7 under wine. I simply gave up on it eventually. An alternative solution for me was to install virtualbox 1.6 with XP as a guest OS. Installing office 2k7 on the virtual machine was pretty much straight forward after that and it works perfectly. Heres a howto link:
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-install-virtualbo…
I got to install and run but then it gives me a messege about microsoft office is not allow to run for the current user under Ubuntu Hardy
To atul, thanks dude that tutorial rocked my world.
It worked flawlessly….
none of the other methods worked..
The method used above to install office 2007 never worked for me. I by myself figured out the problems in methodologies published all over net. Finally I wrote a [b]how to [/b]
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7231643#…
This works flawlessly and saves from shit published over net