Note: I am running Open Office 2.4 on Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 64bit.

At the upper left, you will find the drop down which contains a few styles by default.

In this case, the Title style is available because I have already applied it in this document. The problem is that it is not obvious how to find the Title style (and many others).

Click More… and you will get a pop-up that has a few more styles.

To find the rest of the styles you need to click on any one of the buttons on the top (besides the currently highlighted button, the paragraph symbol) and then click the button that is currently highlighted (the paragraph symbol).

Like digital magic, you now have access to all of the available styles.

Do you have a style tip? Leave it in the comments.

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

1. Close your browser.
2. Open a terminal.
3. sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
4. Open your browser.
5. You should be good to go. Enjoy!

Some Background:

I had VMWare Server 1 (that stopped working upon upgrade) with Windows XP installed previously. I am running a Dell Precision 690 with Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 64bit. My kernel is (output from cat /proc/version) 2.6.24-19-generic (buildd@yellow) (gcc version 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)).

Current Situation:

VMWare Server 2 beta is running great with my previous Windows XP virtual machine in tact. The first thing I did was power up the console and install the VMWare tools from the browser; that automatically started the installation from within the VMWare console under XP.

Step-by-Step:

Install Preliminary Packages

sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r` xinetd
source

Disable ipv6

You need to do this because VMWare Server 2 is not compatible with ipv6 in Ubuntu. Follow the instructions here.

Update hosts file

Make sure you have an entry in your /etc/hosts file that looks like this:
127.0.0.1 localhost
source

Install VMWare

Download the beta here.

I used this guide to do the install.

Change User Access

“Because Ubuntu does not use the root user account we also need to setup access for your main user. Replace root with your username on line 10 of: /etc/vmware/hostd/authorization.xml (ACEDataUser).”
source

Restart Your Machine

I’m not sure if this is completely necessary, but the tutorial about disabling ipv6 recommended it.

Experience VMWare heaven

Open a terminal and type in vmware. Firefox will open and tell you something is wrong with the certificate. Click ok, then click the link that says “Or you can add an exception…”. Add and confirm the certificate and you should be good to go. Login with your system username and password.

1. Open a terminal.
2. Type: sudo vi /etc/samba/smb.conf
3. Add the line “usershare owner only = False”  to the [global] section.
4. Go to Places->Computer.
5. Navigate to the folder that you want to share.
6. Right click that folder and choose “Sharing Options”.
7. Check the box that says “Share this folder”.
8. Choose your share name and check the box that says “Allow other people to write in this folder” if that is your intention.

Now you should be able to see and access the shared folder from your network.

• Go to System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager
• Search for envyng and select envyng-core and envyng-gtk
• Apply
• Close the Package Manager
• From the command line, run  envyng -g
• Use the auto-detect option
• Restart the computer when prompted
• If your display is still messed up:
  • Open a Terminal
  • sudo /usr/bin/nvidia-settings
  • Click X Server Display Configuration
  • Save (it will write a new xorg.conf file)
  • Restert the X Server ( Ctrl-Alt-Backspace )
• Experience the joy of a properly working NVidia driver on Ubuntu

sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list

Add:

deb http://www.symfony-project.org/get debian/

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install php5-symfony

mkdir /var/www/test

cd /var/www/test

symfony init-project mytest

symfony init-app myapp

sudo vi  /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default

Add this to the end:

<Directory "/usr/share/php5/symfony/data/web/sf">
  AllowOverride All
  Allow from All
</Directory>
<VirtualHost *>
  ServerName mytest.thinkingserious.com
  DocumentRoot "/var/www/test/web"
  DirectoryIndex index.php
  Alias /sf /usr/share/php5/symfony/data/web/sf

  <Directory "/var/www/test/web">
    AllowOverride All
    Allow from All
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

sudo a2enmod rewrite

sudo vi /etc/hosts

Add this:

127.0.0.1 mytest.thinkingserious.com

vi /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

Make sure:

magic_quotes_gpc = Off

apache2 restart

Type http://mytest.thinkingserious.com in your browser.

Done