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How to Run Microsoft Office 2007 in Ubuntu Linux 8.10   
Wednesday, March 18 2009 @ 02:26 PM EST
Contributed by: sde

Wouldn’t it be lovely to have a nice, clean installation of Microsoft’s Office 2007 Suite to run on your Ubuntu Linux Distribution? For some people, this is the only thing that truly holds them back from an all-Linux environment… But not anymore! We have compiled a nice, concise set of instructions to help guide you along.

WINE (Wine Is Not an Emulator) is an application layer for Linux that interprets the Windows API and DLLs into native Linux commands. This allows for programs made for Windows to be run in Linux!

In order to run Office 2007, Wine 1.1.9 (or newer) is required. It is currently in a development release. If you don’t have it installed already (this is very likely), go ahead and type the following commands, which will set it up for you:

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