Microsoft Office 2010 Installation in Ubuntu
You Probably have worked with Microsoft office suite then you know the strength of the Microsoft office package. No doubt Libre office ond Open office are the best open source options for the Microsoft office but you may more friendlier with microsoft version than others, You may miss your favorite office suite since you have being using Linux.
This guide will help you to install Office 2010 in your Linux system (Mine is Ubuntu 13.04). But you need followings to get it done
• Office 2010 32bit
• Latest version of Wine emulator, ver 1.6
• .NetFramework 2.0 32bit
First you need to install wine. If you are a Linux user i think you already know what the Wine is, simply it is an emulator to run windows programs in Linux.
1. Install latest version of the Wine
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install wine
Launch "winecfg" and in Application tab Select "Windows Version" as windows XP
2. If you are using 64bit version Ubuntu you need to configure Wine to work with 32bit environment because Office 2010 only works with 32 installation.
So first you need delete default wine folder with this command. If you ask for sudo type it before the command.
$ rm -r ~/.wine
created 32 bit prefix with this command
WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine winecfg
You can see wine reconfigures the settings. For more help follow askubuntu
3. Launch Winetricks from your applications. If you you have a problem launching it in 13.04 in terminal type. And here is the guide for creating launcher for winetricks askubuntu
winetricks –-gui
4. Select “Select the default wineprefix ” and click “OK”
5. Next Select “Install a Windows DDL or component” and click “OK”
6. Next Select “msxml6” and hit “OK”
7. Go back and Select ” Install a Font” and “OK”
8. Next Select “corefonts” hit “OK” install windows core fonts
9. You need to Install .NET framework 2.0 manually. Installing it in above
method didn’t work for me. You can download it form Here and open with "Wine Windows Program Loader" install it manually
10. Launch “winecfg” and select “Libraries” tab select "*msxml6 (native, built-in)" from Existing_overrides and edit and select “Native Windows”
11. Now add the "riched20" and "gdiplus" from the section "New override for libraries" and also set them as native.
12. Right Click on your Office 2010 Setup.exe file and open with "Wine Windows Program Loader" install it manually. And Follow the steps you follow generally in windows environment to install it.
13. After the successful installation you can search in your Unity dash or if not type these commands in terminal to launch
$ wine "C:/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office14/excel.exe"
$ wine "C:/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office14/winword.exe"
$ wine "C:/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office14/powerpnt.exe"
