I also have an older MS Office 2003 disc - which does not work either (again -with appropriate download code)
Office 2003 doesn't work as well in Wine as Office 2007, and the installer in particular has problems. Stick with Office 2007.
I'm lost....not sure what I need to do here:
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cd wine64
sudo apt-get remove wine64
No, don't do that. A wineprefix just where Wine stores its fake C: drive, and uninstalling Wine won't remove it.
I assume you've been installing to the default wineprefix, which is ~/.wine, and on a 64 bit system it would be a 64 bit wineprefix, so that could be the problem.
Since Office is best installed in a separate wineprefix anyway, leave the default one alone for now and create a new 32 bit one for Office:
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WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=$HOME/office2007 wineboot
You should get a popup message about creating a wineprefix, and some harmless error messages in the console. The console output at the end should say the wineprefix has been created. If it doesn't, post the terminal output.
Assuming wineprefix creation goes okay, run the Office installer, but you will have to start the command line with the WINEPREFIX variable to get it to install to the non-default wineprefix you created:
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WINEPREFIX=$HOME/office2007 wine start /unix /path/to/installer
(Substitute the actual path to the installer for /path/to/installer)
One more thing does occur to me: is the directory with the Office install files actually a mounted iso? If it is, either burn a real disc or copy all the files from the iso to an ordinary directory on your hard drive and run from there.