I just wanted to see if I could use Office 2010 through wine. winehq says it should work somewhat. Host is 32 bit, Intel.
System profile (Netbook with 1GB RAM, Atom N550 chip — quite old):
$ uname -a Linux lauenetbook 4.9.0-9-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.168-1 (2019-04-12) i686 GNU/Linux $ cat /etc/debian_version 9.9
1 Had the office 2010 .exe installer (so not an install from CD)
2 Used PlayOnLinux (PoL) to install it into a new wine prefix (default)
3 Created shortcuts in PoL and launched
4 Some bugs, including ‘IOPL not enabled’
5 A little fiddle:
$ cd /lib/i386-linux-gnu/ $ sudo ln -s libudev.so.1 libudev.so.0
6 That solved one little error, but did not fix it
7 In PoL, installed MS core fonts
8 In PoL, installed gdiplus
9 Still getting error ‘IOPL not enabled’
10 Manually, on the command line, set the value for WINEPREFIX to …
$ WINEPREFIX=/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/Office2010/ $ export WINEPREFIX
11 But then I launched PoL again and I’m pretty sure it ignored that
12 I reinstalled over the top of the first install, using the same .exe installer and same defaults
13 After I decided to overwrite without first erasing, the installer did not ask me as many questions as it did the first time, it just installed
14 And then it worked!
I don’t know what I did. But it works now. I can’t really offer advice, but I guess you can try this process…?
Some points: The first time I ran the installer, it did not generate shortcuts automagically, and I generated them myself; the second time I ran the installer it did generate shortcuts and even dumped them on the desktop unasked.
So…
- Maybe run the installer twice?
- Maybe do the libudev thing?
- Maybe use PoL to install gdiplus manually?
- Maybe all of them?