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Microsoft Office 2003 on Ubuntu Linux

July 6th, 2011 md Leave a comment Go to comments

This post is actually for me to remember the steps to install Microsoft Office on Linux should I need to do it again in future.

The thing is, last couple of days, I tried to upgrade my previous Office 2000 to Office 2003, and it didn’t work as expected. Then, I removed all the installation files, directory and etc. including WINE! (the windows emulator program on Linux) with hopes it could solved the upgrade issue. NO, it does not solved it. My Wine is crippled, and left me with one thing to do – RE INSTALL it all over again!

BEWARE! the steps I listed below are for fresh installation of Microsoft Office 2003 on WINE, if you already have other applications installed on WINE, please backup it first OR search for better tips to make it work without re-install your WINE.

Here are the steps:

sudo apt-get remove wine (remove previous installation. You can also use Synaptic Package Manager from “Administration” menu)
rm -r ~/.config/menus (remove the old Wine menu, remember we want to get it fresh)
rm -r ~/.wine
rm -r ~/.local/share/applications/wine
sudo apt-get install wine1.2 (I don’t know why the latest WINE doesn’t seem to work with MS Office 2003 at the moment. Using this version, I don’t have to use winetricks to install msxml3, dotnet20, riched20, riched30 vcrun2005sp1 and what not. I also don’t need to change the “native” library setting on winecfg.)
Browse the installation media (CD/thumb drive/etc) and right click on SETUP.EXE file, select “Open with Wine Windows Program Loader“
Wait for the setup screen to appear. Enter the CD-Key and wait until the installation finished.
Once the installation is completed, try to launch Microsoft Winword from WINE menu.