HOWTO Tutorial: Install Office2007 in Ubuntu 8.04 with Wine 1.1

[rdiaztushman]

Hello!

I have found that all of the HowTo tutorials out there for this process are missing steps. To get Office 2007 to work on my system with:

Wine 1.1
Ubuntu 8.04

I needed to pull various commands from various tutorials and execute them in a specific order. I thought I'd put them all together here. Hope this helps!

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Step 1. Install Wine:

• wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
• sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/...t.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo aptitude install wine

Step 2. Download Winetricks

• wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks

Step 3. Install Cabextract to run the Winetricks smoothly

• sudo aptitude install cabextract

Step 4. Run Winetricks

• sh winetricks

In the Winetricks window, install each of the following *individually*, which means check & install one, then re-run Winetricks and do the next:

* dotnet11
* dotnet20
* vb3run
* vb4run
* vb5run
* vb6run

Step 5. Configure Wine.

• winefcg

In the "Applications" tab, set "Version to Imitate" to *Windows Vista*
In the "Libraries" tab, define "rpcrt4.dll" and "msxml3.dll" as *Native (Windows)*

Step 6. Rename files.

In ~/.wine/windows/system32, rename "rpcrt4.dll" to "rpcrt4.dll_bak" (you will need this later)
In ~/.wine/windows/system32, rename "msxml3.dll" to "msxml3.dll_bak" (you may need this later)
Download a replacement for "rpcrt4.dll" here: http://www.mediafire.com/?njtut9aswdk
Copy the downloaded "rpcrt4.dll" to ~/.wine/windows/system32.

Step 7. Run Winetricks again.

• sh winetricks

In the Winetricks window, install each of the following *individually*, which means check & install one, then re-run Winetricks and do the next:

* msxml3
* msxml4
* msxml6
* riched20
* riched30
* vcrun6
* vcrun2003
* vcrun2005
* vcrun2005sp1
* vcrun2008

Step 8. Install MS Office 2007.

From your MS Office Installer CD or Directory, run:

• wine setup.exe

Step 9. Revert to original dll file.

In ~/.wine/windows/system32, rename "rpcrt4.dll" to "rpcrt4.dll_dl"
In ~/.wine/windows/system32, rename "rpcrt4.dll_bak" to "rpcrt4.dll"

Step 10. Set Wine to emulate WindowsXP

• winecfg

In the "Applications" tab, set "Version to Imitate" to *Windows XP*
In the "Libraries" tab, define "rpcrt4.dll" as *Native then Builtin*

Step 11. Run Office 2007 to confirm it works!

I really hope this helps you all!

Thanks!

[FatalChaos]

I just tried this from a clean wine install, and it didn't work for me. Everything installed correctly, but nothing would load up. The closest I got was word would load up and them immediately crash. I might have done a step wrong, so I'll try again some other time. But still, could you post anything else on wine that might help your ms office 2007? especially b/c ur one of hte only ppl who seems to have gotten a stable office going.

[cbuckbee]

I was able to get Office 2007 installed and running following these steps with a fresh install of Ubuntu 8.04 and Wine 1.1. All the programs work except for Outlook 2007 which exits with a generic popup box that reads, "Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook". I haven't been able to find anything else online about this error yet but will keep looking.

[snowball1288]

I had a similar problem to FatalChaos. Word 2007 crashed on startup, along with most of the other programs. i also found that i couldnt re-launch winecfg after Step 9.

So heres what i did:
I did Step 10 (setting wine to emulate XP and changing the settings on rpcrt4.dll) before Step 9. Then I went back and did Step 9.

And it works! Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and OneNote 2007 all seem to launch and respond normally. And my compiz effects all work on them. hats off to Wine and to rdiaztushman for the HowTo.

[RustyTrowel]

Thanks rdiaztushman.

Using your install method I got everything to work except Access.

Unfortunately, my attempts at fixing that issue completely messed things up. I reinstalled wine and winetricks and tried to go through the steps again. The result of that decision was that winecfg refused to open. I'm starting a new thread to see if folks can't help me get that going.

I'm definetly going to try to use this tutorial again once I get wine running properly.

[daerko]

The install was sucessful but I had same problem as snowball with not being able to launch wine config. I did the same thing as him to change it to run as WINXP and it crashes using the downloaded dll and starts with an errors from services.exe of missing rpcrt4.dll and then doesn't see the dlls like ole32.dll, oart.dll, urlmon.dll, ole32.dll and wwlib.dll (which are all suprisingly in their correct directories) while using the default rpcrt4.dll.

I find it funny that wine config runs with the downloaded rpcrt4.dll but doesn't run with the default one (it gives the rpcrt4.dll missing message and is required by services.exe).

I don't know where I should proceed from here.

[d4ng3r]

So I followed the tutorial but for some reason office still wont install. Has anyone tried this with Enterprise, every time I run the installer it crashes (and wants me to send an error report) at the point right after you click the "Install" button and the status bar comes up. I think it MAY have something to do with some of the things Winetricks installed not working exactly correctly...but I wouldn't know how to fix that.

[elmaster84]

Hi...
I did every step until No. 10
I cant get winecfg to work...
This is the problem Im getting. so If any one could help me!!!...
I urgently need Office 2007. I have a presentation on Monday 7th and my Windows Vista partition stopped working for no reason at all!!...cant load my user profile, so I cant acces my documets...something like that!!....

PLEASE HELP!!!

jach@jach-laptop:~$ winecfg
err:module:import_dll Library rpcrt4.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\services.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\windows\\system32\\services.exe" failed, status c0000135
err:wineboot:start_services_process Unexpected termination of services.exe - exit code -1073741515
err:module:import_dll Library rpcrt4.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\ole32.dll") not found
err:module:import_dll Library ole32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winecfg.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winecfg.exe" failed, status c0000135

[Twitch6000]

I must suggest also trying out wine doors due to it making some of the windows instillation alot easier.

[lilkidz]

Originally Posted by d4ng3r So I followed the tutorial but for some reason office still wont install. Has anyone tried this with Enterprise, every time I run the installer it crashes (and wants me to send an error report) at the point right after you click the "Install" button and the status bar comes up. I think it MAY have something to do with some of the things Winetricks installed not working exactly correctly...but I wouldn't know how to fix that.

I have the same problem as you = Using Enterprise too; always asking my to send a error report =/