office 2k7 problem
Ray Leventhal
ubuntu at swhi.net
Wed Jun 3 15:42:14 UTC 2009
Haseeb ul Hasan wrote:
> Question 1
> I am a rookie user. (Ubuntu 8.04 x64)
> I have googled on how to install office 2007 on it. Got success in
> installing wine and wine tricks. Got the iso downloaded of office 2007.
> Successfuly installed gmount iso to mount the disc.
> Successfully started installing, but on the halfway through it gives and
> unknown error and closes.
IMNSHO, you'll find CrossOver/Linux from Codeweavers [1] most helpful as
Office 2007 is one of the supported applications.
The basics: Yes, WINE is the ticket, but the folks at Codeweavers (the
most significant supporters of the WINE project, btw) have developed a
few not-open features which make the whole process far easer, again
IMNSHO. I think of their product as WINE-heavy.
The other side of this is OpenOffice from Sun [2] is available and
likely already installed on your current 8.04 system. If there's
something that OO can't do (or can't do without major learning curve) I
fallback to M$ Office through [1].
I hope this helps.
-Ray
[1] http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxlinux/
[2] http://www.openoffice.org/ *
*caveat: on Ubuntu, please try to use software from repositories as it
keeps your system secure, up-to-date and less likely to encounter
conflicts down the road.
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