Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 Error on Install

[JamesGeddes]

Hi Everyone!

I'm a bit of a wine n00b so your patience is muchly appreciated!

So I've followed every set of instructions that I can, yet I still cannot get MS Office to install on Ubuntu 13.04. Yes, I would prefer to use Libre Office, but work insist...

The installation gets part of the way through, then just returns the attached message. What am I doing wrong?

I have also tried using "PlayOnLinux", however under this, it says that Excel does not have enough memory to run. I did run Excel on this laptop before when it was on Windows 8, but everyone says installing M$ Office is sooo easy in Wine I thought I would be ok to go with my preferred OS

Any help would be most gratefully appreciated!

[dimesio]

PlayOnLinux is not supported here, and their scripts for MS Office are wrong.

Once the Office 2010 installer fails for a given wineprefix it will always fail in that wineprefix, so the first thing you need to do is delete the wineprefix and install to a clean one.

Note that 64 bit Office 2010 does not work in Wine; 32 bit does, but only in a 32 bit wineprefix. If your OS is 64 bit, create a 32 bit wineprefix with

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WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/path/to/wineprefix winecfg

(substitute the actual path to the wineprefix), then install to that following the instructions in the AppDB. Note you must have wine-mono and winbind installed for the installer to work.

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#wineprefix
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=17336

[JamesGeddes]

Note you must have wine-mono and winbind installed for the installer to work

So I installed Mono and samba to get winbind, but now Office is returning the attached error. What am I doing wrong now?

[dimesio]

Sounds like you neglected to create a clean wineprefix.

[JamesGeddes]

Sounds like you neglected to create a clean wineprefix.

I think that was the problem! I made a clean wineprefix and office installed perfectly! Thanks everyone!