{"id":5208,"date":"2019-10-02T22:10:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T22:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/?p=5208"},"modified":"2019-10-08T04:04:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T04:04:12","slug":"installing-office-2010-with-playonlinux-on-18-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/?p=5208","title":{"rendered":"Installing Office 2010 with PlayonLinux on 18.04"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just wrote an update to this entire page – go here<\/a> and forget about this page!<\/p>\n

Major Woes<\/h2>\n

I tried to install Office 2010 using PlayOnLinux – on PopOS 18.04 (essentially, Ubuntu 18.04) – over and over, having read everything I could find on the web about installing Office 2010 with PlayOnLinux and it failed repeatedly. Specifically, what happened is that the install routine would finish, create desktop icons, etc. – ever indication was that everything had gone fine. When I tried to launch Word, for instance, the GUI would open and a second or so later the installer graphic would appear again, in the middle of the screen, and everything would simply hang. I couldn’t close Word without using the “Kill Processes” button in PlayOnLinux.<\/p>\n

A lot of screwing around, and success<\/h2>\n

This is what I did, and, I am writing this for my own benefit – I would not recommend following these steps as some may be superfluous, etc. I have no idea why in the hell this worked. In desperation, this is what I recall doing – and these were a mash up of suggested fixes that I’d found on a variety of pages around the web:<\/p>\n

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  • I installed Wine 3.8 from the PlayOnLinux GUI, but, when I eventually installed Office it said it was downloading version 3.2, as I recall.\n
  • I used the PlayOnLinux GUI to create a new bottle – I called it simply “32bit” – not sure where I got this idea…..this has been an ordeal.\n
  • On that bottle I installed msxml6, dotnet20, and riched20\n
  • Then I created another bottle called “Office2010” – I knew this was the name of the bottle that was normally created by the PlayOnLinux installer for Office 2010.\n
  • I installed the same components in this bottle that I just listed (above) in this new bottle.\n
  • I ran the installer from a mounted ISO file and I was asked if I wanted to completely delete or overwrite the existing bottle named “Office2010”.\n
  • I chose to overwrite the existing bottle and the damned thing seems to have worked – I have no idea why….\n<\/ul>\n

    Again: These Are Notes to Myself<\/h2>\n

    This post is not a guideline for going about installing Office 2010 on Linux using PlayOnLinux.<\/strong><\/em> I have never heard of anyone having the specific problem I had with all of this, and, creating a bottle called “32bit” was something I did – and I can’t recall why – that was certainly superfluous…. Nonetheless, I had such a bad time with this thing that I thought it best to document every stupid thing I did. . As I’ve said, from what I could find I had some unique problem, that, through a lot of screwing around eventually got fixed – and I really don’t know why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I just wrote an update to this entire page – go here and forget about this page! Major Woes I tried to install Office 2010 using PlayOnLinux – on PopOS 18.04 (essentially, Ubuntu 18.04) – over and over, having read everything I could find on the web about installing Office 2010 with PlayOnLinux and it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}