Moving to Linux, but what about the office?

0xC0CAC01A2013-05-23 13:31:46

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0xC0CAC01A, 2013-05-23 13:31:46

I want to get rid of Microsoft on all machines, but a problem arises - I need to be able to check how the document formatting looks in Word and other offices. Is it currently possible to run MS Office (albeit not the latest version) under Linux without a Windows VM, i.e. wine or something else? Moreover, not in theory (“well, it almost works, you just need to file it here, here and over there, and don’t pay attention to what falls”), but in practice, i.e. what works as it should always and in any conditions?

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egorinsk, 2013-05-23
@egorinsk

Why switch from Windows to Linux? Most office programs are written, developed and tested specifically for Windows, maybe I don’t understand something, but what is the benefit of switching? Wine does not work perfectly, has bugs and shortcomings.
Moreover, it looks strange, if you have already purchased licenses for software, then there is not even any savings.

jcmvbkbc, 2013-05-23
@jcmvbkbc

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrossOver_%28software%29

Michael., 2013-05-23
@kulinich

In wine'e the office works quite well. Recently put the girl, there were no complaints. Says: just like in windows.

lmaxximl, 2013-05-24
@lmaxximl

Switch to Linux and use Windows applications, are you kidding me? If transition then transition, Libre on Linux works great. Everything on the subconscious, start working in Linux applications without paying attention to Windows and you will understand that there is no difference in the work of an ordinary user. I'm not talking about command line servers and everything like Linux has long been User Friendly.

Otkrick, 2013-05-23
@Otkrick

Finished wine from Etersoft . There is a commercial version that supports a bunch of our applications like Client Savings Banks ( list ). In the case of vanilla wine, you need to sort through its versions for specific applications, often “one wine - one application”.
Take a look at Ulteo (dedicated windows server required) for seamless integration, or hack manually via seamlessrdp.

elFurion, 2013-05-26
@elFurion

If you only need to check how the document looks in Word, then you can try installing the free Word viewer and Excel viewer through Wine. Thus, you will remain clean before the law.

Nirr0hope, 2014-08-31
@Nirr0hope

It is called WPS Office (Kingsoft Office). In fact, the Chinese communist brothers muddied a clone of the office for the needs of a socialist society.
(as usual, where "em dash" should be replaced by two "en dashes").
Set:
1. If you have AMD64. add support for i386 if it hasn't already been added.
dpkg --add-architecture i386
apt-get update
2. Install small soft fonts (contrib branch must be enabled)
apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
3. Download any missing fonts from allshrift.ru and unpack (save) to /usr/ share/fonts/microsoft-non-dpkg (if there is no directory to create).
(Attached a small pack of fonts.tar.gz to the post)
Run fc-cache -fv as root.
4. Download the WPS office distribution from the Linux community site: wps-community.org/download.html Install by
running dpkg -i as root (here is the name of the downloaded file with the .deb extension)
the necessary i386 libraries were installed.
If this prompts you to remove the installed office, something is wrong with point 1 or you have problems with addiction.
5.1. We cut out the fonts installed by the WPS office (Chinese), because there were glitches when Copy / Paste from the Internet (substitutes some Chinese font):
rm -r /usr/share/fonts/wps-office
fc-cache -fv
6. Russification ( before first run).
Russification is extremely clumsy, but you can install it and update it periodically, for this:
From root:
mkdir ~/.wps-office-i18n
cd ~/.wps-office-i18n
git clone https://github.com/wps-community/wps_i18n.git ./
cd ru_RU
make install
7. Run :)
8. Sometimes ( when the contribution is made) you need to repeat the Russification.
cd ~/.wps-office-i18n
git pull
cd ru_RU
make install
9. Installing a Russian dictionary for Russian spelling:
9.1. Download Russian dictionary wps-community.org/download/dicts/ru_RU.zip
9.2. Unpack this archive to /opt/kingsoft/wps-office/office6/dicts, which would look like this:
[email protected]:/opt/kingsoft/wps-office/office6/dicts# ls -lash
total 16K
4.0K drwxr-xr -x 4 root root 4.0K Aug 18 17:27 .
4.0K drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4.0K Aug 18 12:10 ..
4.0K drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Aug 18 12:10 en_US
4.0K drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4.0K Nov 20 2013 en_RU

Vadim Misbakh-Soloviev, 2014-10-15
@mva

By the way, a small offtopic, but for the purposes of "to display the same everywhere" for 500 years, PDF was invented in which all office packages can print (and some even embed ODF into it).
Have you tried looking this way?

Deleted Deleted, 2014-10-16
@DailyFuckups

PEOPLE! Don't forget about OneDrive! Microsoft moved everything to the cloud for a reason. In addition, 50 GB and free! Few? Google Docs! Everywhere editors are wide in functionality. Everything in the browser, no apps! Convenience, damn it!

Puma Thailand, 2013-05-23
@opium

Use office 365 and watch online

Mezomish, 2013-05-23
@Mezomish

My brother-in-law recently crawled onto Linux Mint, he runs Office 2010 without any problems in Vine.

affinity, 2013-05-24
@affinity

and skydrive is not an option?
Quite an office :-)

Omega9, 2014-10-16
@Omega9

Word Online
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/word-onl...

Ruslan, 2014-10-16
@solarplexus

1. Open Office
2. Libre Office
Why is everyone silent about them? Am I missing something?

StayBrutal, 2014-10-20
@StayBrutal

LibreOffice