I just installed playonlinux version 3.6 on my pc and installed office 2007. It works like a charm. Play on linux is a program based on the popular wine software. The code to install it on Ubuntu Jaunty(9.04) is given below. If you want to install it in any other version of ubuntu just replace jaunty with intrepid, karmic, etc. The good news for us Ubuntu users is that playonlinux will be in the ubuntu repositories starting from Karmic(9.10).
sudo wget http://deb.playonlinux.com/playonlinux_jaunty.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playonlinux.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install playonlinux I
chose only to use Word, Excel and Powerpoint because I hardly use any
office suite. Pics of Word and Powerpoint in action have also been
attached below for proof;)Play on linux is found in the games menu.If you want to access the folder where
playonlinux is installed go to Home Folder and choose "show
hidden files" on View. You will then see a folder called
".playonlinux". Enter the folder and click on the sub
folder "wineprefix". You will see all your installed
software there. One area that needs to be worked on is the print function which didn't work. Hopefully the future versions will have better integration with the Linux system.
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