Ever since I fully migrated from my primary operating system windows, I felt the need for a complete office suite. Of course, there are plenty of options available to pick from but none of them are superior enough to replace the MS Office suite. Installing Microsoft Office 2010 on Linux can be a bit complicated process and people who are new to this environment cannot find any helpful newbie-friendly resource. So this guide might help some to get a fully working MS Office 2010 on their Linux machine.

 Installing necessary libraries

Ubuntu Users:

sudo apt-get install wine winetricks wine-gecko wine-mono winbind fontsmooth-rgb

Arch Users:

sudo pacman -Sy wine wine-mono wine_gecko fontsmooth-rgb samba

Creating a 32-bit wineprefix

WINEPREFIX=~/.ofice2010 WINEARCH=win32 winecfg

After executing this command a 32 bit wineprefix will be initialized on ~/.ofice2010 and a wine configuration window will pop up. From the configuration window, select operating system Windows XP.

Configuring Wine

In the configuration window, click on libraries tab and add override libraries msxml6 and riched20. The override order for both libraries should be native then built-in.

Installing MS Office 2010

We are almost done configuring the wine now we need to initialize the office installer using terminal.  We will use cd to navigate to the installation folder. In my case, It is located on my desktop.

cd ~/Desktop/office2010

Now we need to run this command to start the installer.

WINEPREFIX=~/.office2010 WINEARCH=win32 wine setup.exe

Completing the installation and running MS Apps

Follow the installation wizard and complete the installation. Now you can find all MS apps on your application list.