Many times have I done this, but never quickly. The reason – never wrote it down, thus forcing myself to have to search through loads of pages again and again… The secret is knowing which Windows libraries to install using winetricks, after that, it’s a simple process:
- Install latest Wine and cabextract
ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install wine
sudo apt-get install cabextract - Get winetricks:
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks - Install Windows libraries usin Winetricks:
sh winetricks dotnet11
sh winetricks gdiplus
sh winetricks vb3run
sh winetricks vb4run
sh winetricks vb5run
sh winetricks vb6run
sh winetricks msxml3
sh winetricks msxml4
sh winetricks msxml6
sh winetricks riched20
sh winetricks riched30
sh winetricks vcrun6
sh winetricks vcrun2005sp1
sh winetricks vcrun2008
sh winetricks dotnet20
That’s it! Microsoft Office can now be installed by running the setup.exe from the installation CD… (wine setup.exe from console, or right click from file manager -> open with wine).
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