Microsoft Office 2007 on Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 64 bit with Wine

I really support OpenOffice, but many times it happens that some people don’t switch to linux just because of incompatibility with M$ Office and Ubuntu…

To convince these people i write this 🙂 :

So, let’s start…

First of all, remove all the existing Wine installations

sudo apt-get remove wine

Event the hiddend folder

rm -rf ~/.wine

Now, let’s install a newer version, go to the The WineHQ .deb packages archive, download the last version (I tried the Wine 1.1.32 amd64 and Wine 1.1.36 amd64, both working properly) and install it without caring this:

Now, just continue to follow this guide from Install Microsoft Office 2007 going on 😉