Ubuntu 9.10 Installing Microsoft Office 2010 Beta… December 18th, 2009
As promised, an update on where I am at with trying to get a working installation of Microsoft Office 2010 on Ubuntu.
After numerous hours spent trying various options and configurations of WINE I’m still unable to get it working. Sure, I can get it to install but it won’t run so I can’t really call it a success. I’ll have some time over the Christmas break so will keep trying and hopefully will have a stable solution soon; these things have a habit of ‘falling into place’ and the answer is usually staring me in the face!
My original post showing how to install Office 2007 can be found here – http://www.mikesouthby.co.uk/2009/11/ubuntu-9-10-installing-microsoft-office-2007
9 Responses
BasiCo Says:
I do the same but with no success so far. The Microsoft people did a good job on that. I tried to make a backup from an installed Vbox installed MsOffice2010 to the virtual C: of Wine, but it’s not working. I think that the key is to upgrade from Office 2007 to Office 2010. The problem is that I cannot manage to pass the password approval step. The installation tries to use a microsoft application or runs a script and it stucks.
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besweeet Says:
Did you just so happen to get Office 2010 via WINE figured out?
Mike Says:
Sorry, not yet. I haven’t had much time to work with Ubuntu over the last couple of months as have had another project rolling but hope to have some news regarding this soon.
pisi Says:
please make it to work :(
Stephen Oneill Says:
with Ubunto 10.10 coming out are u any closer to getting this to work?
Mike Southby Says:
@ Stephen, thanks for taking the time to leave a comment. I’ll be honest, owing to other projects I had parked this for a while. I’ll put aside some time though to give it another go, I’d say I managed to get 95% there previously so sure a solution can be found! I generally use the LTS builds, although will run a 10.10 virtual machine and see if the new build helps at all.
