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Running Microsoft Office 2007 Under Wine 1.0 in Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04

Elmer Thomas — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:19:36 +0000

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

The Story Behind iPhone.com

Elmer Thomas — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:46:26 +0000

Once again, Starbucks proves to be a great place to meet interesting people. Today, I met Michael Kovatch, who is recently “Internet” famous for selling iPhone.com to Apple. Thanks for the introduction Kurt! Following is a brief video interview where Michael explains how he acquired iPhone.com. You can add this to your trivia files.

How much woud you have sold iPhone.com for?

Black Friday Last Minute Roundup

Elmer Thomas — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 06:38:31 +0000

Twas the night before Black Friday… This if for those who have waited to the last minute and still want to get in on the action. Following are some resources to help you find the best deals.

BLACK FRIDAY RESOURCES

DEAL AGGREGATORS

THE USUAL TECH DESTINATIONS

ASK FOR WHAT YOU WANT OR SELL YOUR BLACK FRIDAY DEALS

What is your favorite Black Friday online resource?

Welcome

Elmer Thomas — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:17:53 +0000

This blog is a continuation and expansion of blog.ThemBid.com, which has become popular for its technical and life hack content; however, the purpose of that blog has been changed to better serve ThemBid.com users.