How to get Office 2010 (specifically Outlook) to run?

wine microsoft-office

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Solution 1

The 32-bit version of Microsoft Office should be installable through Wine, as they refer in their site in Ubuntu 11.10; so please follow their instruction and be sure you have a version of Wine above 1.3.35. There is also a trick to solve your problem about the file machine.config.

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=17336

Solution 2

All windows MS Office apps will install and work on Ubuntu if you use Crossover. Outlook does have some issues IF you, like me wish to use gmail and IMAP. This is because of the TSL and SSL security it, gmail, requires. STUNNEL(4) is supposed to resolve these problems as it acts as a middleware server, but I have yet to make it work.

So, yes, I have mine up and running, but as I use gmail and IMAP I can not get it to sync on inbox.

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Daniel Gauthier

Have my own computer repair company for Microsoft PC's, laptops, etc since 2004. Have played with Linux before and I'm serious about getting it as my main operating system now, and selling systems built with Linux. I hope to learn alot here and also share my learning experiences.

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

Daniel Gauthier over 1 year
Although there are many alternatives out there, I'm not prepared to get away from Outlook yet, and I have many clients I'd like to switch over to Ubuntu but they need Outlook and won't switch because of this one thing holding them back.

Currently I have Ubuntu 11.10, Wine 1.3.35 and PlayOnLinux 4.0.14 I tried to get Wine 1.3.9 which apparently supports Office 2010 but I can't get that to install either. Not sure if it's a waste of time, but that's a separate question if it's a path worth going down.

Office 2010 starts install with PlayOnLinux no problem but half way through fails with the following error:
```
1: 25541 2: -2147024786 3:
C:\windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\machine.config
```
I'm thinking I have to install .NET framework separately first but I don't want to mindlessly install all kinds of software and makes things worse. I appreciate any advice on this so I can help promote this awesome operating system.
- Uri Herrera over 12 years
  
  Did you follow any instructions at the appdb.winehq.org site?.
- Panther over 12 years
  
  According to winehq it will not work : appdb.winehq.org/… If outlook is that mission critical perhaps stay with windows. Is there some feature in outlook that does not work with the linux native alternates ? I am not trying to tell you what to do, merely suggesting it may be easier to migrate to a linux alternate then maintain outlook in wine/playonlinux, and having outlook fail would not be good either.
- Amith KK over 12 years
  
  Welcome To AskUbuntu! Office 2010 is not very well supported under Wine :( . I suggest you use thunderbird or Outlook 2003 :D . Most of the Outlook Features are on Native linux clients. If it is really required... You'd be needing the windows :D
- Daniel Gauthier over 12 years
  
  Thanks for all your comments, I know there are alternatives, but I'd like to work with the Ubuntu community to find a way to make it work so more people will want to switch over from Windows. I'm ok with changing to Thunderbird probably, but then there are issues like how to sync my Blackberry with it when it only has the option for Outlook? That's another question for another time. Some websites like Bodhi.zazen found say it doesn't work,but others like heiko81 found says it does work with some tweaks. There's several scenarios which I'd like to address, I'm going through one at a time.
- mbybee almost 12 years
  
  I found that using Wine 1.5 got outlook 2010 to install properly, but it still seems to crash almost immediately after it downloads the inbox.
- Leon almost 12 years
  
  I also got outlook 2010 to install but it keps crashing after n seconds.
heiko81 over 12 years

You have to start Winetricks (you can find it easily searching in the Unity Lens) and then choose Select the default wineprefix, Install a Windows DLL or component, and then install the msxml6 package. I've just tried and it works.
Daniel Gauthier over 12 years

Ya, that's what I tried and it doesn't have the check mark on showing it is installed, but it also says "cached" in the status. So I'm not sure how or if I can uninstall it to try again. I think I really screwed it up somehow. I'll see what else I can do in the mean time.
Daniel Gauthier over 12 years

If anyone is interested how I installed Office 2010 Pro edition... I used PlayOnLinux. I clicked to install program not listed. I choose the libraries to install during installation. msxml6 and dotnet20. Couldn't find Core fonts in that list. Go through prompts and it eventually finishes successfully.
heiko81 over 12 years

You can find the core fonts in winetricks where there is an option "Install a font".
zed over 7 years

After multiple failures, I came out with this success: blog.z-proj.com/…