This is the simplest way to install office 2007 on ubuntu 9.10 this method should also work with ubuntu 8.04,8.10 and 9.04.

If you have an iso image to MS Office 2007 you will need an iso mounter to mount the image, the best one I found was "Furius ISO Mount" you can download it from the programs manager.

You have to install a version of wine after v1.1.10 older Wine releases will not work.

Step 1. Install Wine:

* wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

* sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/...t.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list

* sudo apt-get update

* sudo aptitude install wine

A .deb package can also be downloaded from http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/ please keep in mind that Ubuntu versions older than Hardy are no longer being updated.

Step 2. Download Winetricks

* wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks

Step 3. Install Cabextract to run the Winetricks smoothly

* sudo aptitude install cabextract

Step 4. Run Winetricks

* sh winetricks

In the Winetricks window, install each of the following *individually*, which means check & install one, then re-run Winetricks and do the next:

* dotnet11

* gdiplus

* vb3run

* vb4run

* vb5run

* vb6run

* msxml3

* msxml4

* msxml6

* riched20

* riched30

* vcrun6

Step 5. Install MS Office 2007.

From your MS Office Installer CD or Directory, run:

* wine setup.exe

Step 6. Run Office 2007

Professional support options

If you should run into any problems with the above howto you can always purchase CrossOver Office from the folks at Codeweavers. Crossover Pro runs on practically every Linux distribution as well as Intel Macs.