Arch linux office 2010

Arch Linux

What is the most important thing that Linux can not give you? In my point of view, it’s Microsoft Office.

So let’s have a look how to run Office 2010 on Arch Linux.

First we have to install Wine, the Windows run-time environment for Linux. You can install the required packages by:

$ sudo pacman -S —needed icoutils libwbclient libxslt lib32-mpg123 p11-kit lib32-p11-kit samba wine winetricks wine-mono wine_gecko

You need to enable multilib packages in pacman.conf before that.

sudo packer -S --noedit --noconfirm ttf-ms-fonts wine-mono

If you are using Linux 64 bit version, you may need these too.

sudo packer -S --noedit --noconfirm lib32-libwbclient lib32-mpg123 lib32-libxslt

You need to create a separate installation folder, we call it a prefix, for Office package.

export WINEPREFIX="~/.msOffice" export WINEARCH="win32"

(If you want to make this as default, add above two lines to /etc/profile )

Let’s run the wine configuration, where we have to override some system libraries.

Then Click the Libraries tab of the config window, select riched20 and click Add. You may also need to add msxml3, msxml6 and gdiplus libraries too.Then Click Apply, then click OK.

Done…. You are now ready to run any windows executable file.

Then go to the Office setup folder, and run $ wine setup.exe

Please note that only 32 bit version of Office is only supported yet.

If you face an error “MSXML is not installed” kind of thing, you may need to download msxml3 and msxml6 from MS XML website and install it on your wine installation.

Or install the Linux version from

For more info about wine, visit wine arch wiki page.

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Arch Linux

MS Office 2010 and some games are the last reason why I have Windows on my computer.

Is Office 2010 already ported to wine or do they still are having some problems?

#2 2011-12-03 19:17:42

Re: MS Office 2010 under archlinux amd64(Wine)?

You might want to go and look at the AppDB at www.winehq.org and look at their database.

#3 2011-12-03 19:26:18

Re: MS Office 2010 under archlinux amd64(Wine)?

No wine still only support office to an half and to get there is a lot of work.

#4 2011-12-03 20:12:42

Re: MS Office 2010 under archlinux amd64(Wine)?

If you’ve got the necessary hardware spec then it’s probably going to be easier to run a virtualbox vm of windows and use that to host the work apps as well as access your underlying physical filesystem from within the vm effortlessly — for windows games I’m still dual-booting into OS on physical host.

#5 2011-12-03 20:14:56

Re: MS Office 2010 under archlinux amd64(Wine)?

Just for the record: what is the problem with Libre Office?

#6 2011-12-03 20:23:57

Re: MS Office 2010 under archlinux amd64(Wine)?

Just for the record: what is the problem with Libre Office?

In my case. when I’m not having to work with other users of MS Office possessing existing investment in the office formats (templates, code etc.) that can and sometimes break when being interchanged with other tools like Libre/OpenOffice then there is no problem and LibreOffice is my preferred tool.

#7 2011-12-03 23:29:36

twelveeighty Member From: Alberta, Canada Registered: 2011-09-04 Posts: 986

Re: MS Office 2010 under archlinux amd64(Wine)?

I’m not sure about Office 2010, but I’m running Office 2003 on Crossover — in my view Crossover is the best «paid software» I’ve ever bought.

As for LibreOffice — I use it as well. As long as you install all the vista and Windows fonts, you can edit most documents and keep them interchangeable with those Windows victims out there, but I do have to resort to MS Office on Crossover once in a while.

#8 2011-12-04 06:35:13

Re: MS Office 2010 under archlinux amd64(Wine)?

Libreoffice ist fine no question..
But they’re missing some indispensable options/tools at basic like special pasting, headlines. Surely you can make this also with Libreoffice but it isn’t as nice.

In my opionion Libreoffice should stop wasting so much time by trying to hold a compatiblity at Office 2003 (the compatibility with 2007 and later just includes the content not any layout. ) which isn’t a compatibility at all and start to add some features which really make working easier and faster.
But at the moment Libreoffice is «just» a office suit which creeps 6 years behing M$. I hope this will change after freeing up from Oracle and with the hopefully coming up UI.

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#9 2011-12-04 11:42:00

Re: MS Office 2010 under archlinux amd64(Wine)?

For my own, i’m rather glad that LO keeps some compatibility with MS Office as it allows me to use LO to do my job and to send it to my contractors (who need .doc files).

I’m speaking of books of 300 pages, with a fixed stylesheet (written in Word by my contractor), index, revision marks and so on. All is fine as long we avoid .docx format.

#10 2011-12-05 07:39:40

Re: MS Office 2010 under archlinux amd64(Wine)?

If you’ve got the necessary hardware spec then it’s probably going to be easier to run a virtualbox vm of windows and use that to host the work apps as well as access your underlying physical filesystem from within the vm effortlessly — for windows games I’m still dual-booting into OS on physical host.

I do it exactly this way, too. Works very well for me except for some minor glitches in seemless mode that are probably caused by desktop compositing.

Just for the record: what is the problem with Libre Office?

I use mainly Powerpoint or Impress respectively.
And for those users that like a little «decoration» in their slides and illustrations (such as gentle gradients, for instance), working with Powerpoint is way, way more fluent and takes far less than half the time than when working with LibreOffice for achieving the same result. I realize it can be done with LO, too, but at least to me it is just so much more cumbersome.

Also, I’m looking forward to see how good the Calligra Suite will turn out to be in a few releases.

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Installing Office 2010

Once Wine is installed, installing Office 2010 is the same for Arch Linux and Ubuntu.

Create a clean wine prefix.

export WINEPREFIX="$HOME>/.msoffice2010" export WINEARCH="win32" winecfg 

Click the Libraries tab, select riched20 and click Add . The default entry should read riched20 (native, builtin) . Click Apply , then click OK . This will ensure that PowerPoint starts and selection boxes display correctly.

Install libxml6 and corefonts with winetricks

winetricks msxml6 corefonts 

Start the Office 2010 setup. In the example below X17-75058.exe is the name of the 60 day trial version of Office Home and Business 2010 that I downloaded.

Follow the installation wizard, we are only interested in running the essentials, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. This is what I selected during the install.

• Enter your serial number.
• Leave ticked Attempt to automatically activate my product online.
• Click Continue
• Tick I accept the terms of this agreement
• Click Continue
• Click Customise
  • Microsoft Access (Trial) [Not Available]
  • Microsoft Excel [Run all from My Computer]
  • Microsoft OneNote [Not Available]
  • Microsoft Outlook [Not Available]
  • Microsoft PowerPoint [Run all from My Computer]
  • Microsoft Publisher (Trial) [Not Available]
  • Microsoft Visio Viewer [Run from My Computer]
  • Microsoft Word [Run all from My Computer]
  • Office Shared Features [Defaults]
  • Office Tools [Defaults]

  That’s it. Office 2010 is installed and should be associated with the appropriate file types.

  Some Issues

  Here are some of the issues we noticed running Office 2010 under Wine.

  • Always install Office 2010 into it’s own WINEPREFIX . You are less likely to run into problem that way.
  • Online updates do not work. Fortunately, the trial installer has SP1 integrated.
  • If you purchase Office 2010 licenses you can still use the trial installer with your purchased license key(s).
  • We did test a trial of CrossOver. However, it wouldn’t activate Office 2010 on Arch Linux but did activate on Ubuntu.
  • Files saved to cifs mounts are set read-only. This might be a Wine issue or due to the unusual way we have our file server configured, we are still investigating.

  Uninstalling Office 2010

  Should you ever need to, you can uninstall Office 2010 as follows.

  rm -rfv $HOME>/.msoffice2010/ rm -rfv ~/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-* rm -rfv ~/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/Microsoft\ Office/ 

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  today I decided to install Wine and try installing Microsoft Office 2010. By doing that I encountered a few problems and started wondering about a few things:

  a. I wanted to make using Wine a bit more secure so I changed the linking of «Z:» -> «/» to «Z» -> «/home/username/Windows/».
  b. I am using firejail with the standard wine.profice policy
  c. I changed the linkings from «/home/username/Pictures/» to «/home/username/Windows/Pictures» (same for Documents,Music,Video,Desktop)

  1. I think this should make using wine quite secure as any application run with Wine can only access the few specifically-for-wine-created folders and not touch the rest of my Linux system?

  I then continued by installing Microsoft Office 2010:

  export WINEPREFIX=~/.wine # Wine prefix to use wine /path/to/office_cd/setup.exe

  But at the end of the installation I got this error which cancelled the installation:

  The databases in [/home/username/.local/share/applications] could not be updated. err:rpc:RpcAssoc_BindConnection rejected bind for reason 0 err:menubuilder:write_freedesktop_association_entry error writing association file "/home/username/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-chm.desktop" err:menubuilder:write_freedesktop_association_entry error writing association file "/home/username/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-hlp.desktop" err:menubuilder:write_freedesktop_association_entry error writing association file "/home/username/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-htm.desktop" err:menubuilder:write_freedesktop_association_entry error writing association file "/home/username/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-html.desktop" err:menubuilder:write_freedesktop_association_entry error writing association file "/home/username/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-ini.desktop" err:menubuilder:write_freedesktop_association_entry error writing association file "/home/username/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-msp.desktop" err:menubuilder:write_freedesktop_association_entry error writing association file "/home/username/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-pdf.desktop" err:menubuilder:write_freedesktop_association_entry error writing association file "/home/username/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-txt.desktop" err:menubuilder:write_freedesktop_association_entry error writing association file "/home/username/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-url.desktop" err:menubuilder:write_freedesktop_association_entry error writing association file "/home/username/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-vbs.desktop" err:menubuilder:write_freedesktop_association_entry error writing association file "/home/username/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-wri.desktop" fixme:ole:NdrCorrelationInitialize (0x23a060, 0x23a2f0, 2048, 0x0): semi-stub fixme:rpc:handle_bind_error unexpected status value 1765 err:rpc:RpcAssoc_BindConnection rejected bind for reason 0

  2. How to fix this? Is it because of my security «changes» ?

  3. I wanted to install Microsoft Office and make it usable for all users on my Linux installation. But right now Wine would install Microsoft Office in my user-specific-folder which means others users can’t access it? How to fix this?

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