Microsoft Office 07 enterprise Wine Install

**Joe Ker1086** · October 31st, 2009

Any tricks that anybody knows of to install MS office enterprise using wine? Every time I try to install it, it fails at about half way through. any ideas?

**Daniel1994** · October 31st, 2009

I think I read somewhere that Crossover("deluxe" version of wine) can run ms office. You should check it out.

Other than that, I have no idea. OOffice statifies all my office needs

**lavadisco** · October 31st, 2009

Try this:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ht=Office+2007

Worked for me.

**Joe Ker1086** · October 31st, 2009

I agree that open office is better but i have to take some classes where ms office is required (IE access 2007 class). I though crossover was only for MAC

**Joe Ker1086** · November 6th, 2009

Thanks Lavadisco I will try it.

**Dark_Stang** · November 6th, 2009

Originally Posted by Joe Ker1086

I though crossover was only for MAC

Nope, crossover is for Mac and Linux. About a year ago crossover gave away a version for free for 1 day only. It was a pretty sweet deal.

And good luck with access. The last time I had a class with that we were given 2 options.
1. Use access
2. Do everything in SQL manually.
I used access for about 10 minutes on a school PC. Said F that, used my laptop to SSH into the server and login to Oracle. Then did everything with a few scripts. Soooo much easier.

Edit: Also, OpenOffice has a database application. AFAIK it's compatible with access.

**e-nygma** · November 6th, 2009

Which version of wine are you using? was able to install Office '07 on wine version 1.1.16. I always had problems using other versions of wine, but version 1.1.16 worked perfectly for me. You can grab the debian file from WineHq and double click it to install. Once installed, insert the Office '07 CD and navigate to the setup.exe on the cd and choose open with "wine windows program loader." Hope this helps.

**Joe Ker1086** · November 7th, 2009

Originally Posted by e-nygma

Which version of wine are you using? was able to install Office '07 on wine version 1.1.16. I always had problems using other versions of wine, but version 1.1.16 worked perfectly for me. You can grab the debian file from WineHq and double click it to install. Once installed, insert the Office '07 CD and navigate to the setup.exe on the cd and choose open with "wine windows program loader." Hope this helps.

Let me try the newest version, thanks for the heads up.

**Joe Ker1086** · November 7th, 2009

Originally Posted by Dark_Stang

Nope, crossover is for Mac and Linux. About a year ago crossover gave away a version for free for 1 day only. It was a pretty sweet deal.

And good luck with access. The last time I had a class with that we were given 2 options.
1. Use access
2. Do everything in SQL manually.
I used access for about 10 minutes on a school PC. Said F that, used my laptop to SSH into the server and login to Oracle. Then did everything with a few scripts. Soooo much easier.

Edit: Also, OpenOffice has a database application. AFAIK it's compatible with access.

I agree with the SQL comment, I hate access but unfortunately i have to take the class

**SamD42** · November 8th, 2009

I recently managed to install office 07 through Playonlinux. It configured and ran everything. All works great save for outlook!

Playonlinux is in the standard repos since Karmic, so grab it and give it a go. The way it configures everything for you from missing components to the best wine version for each program is fantastic.