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Installing Office 2013 with Wine

So I ditched Windows 10 on my HP Spectre 360 since it didn't meet the upgrade requirements for Windows 11. Instead I overwrote the OS with Linux Mint. Now I am trying to get my Office 2013 installed using Wine.

To install Wine on Linux mint, I followed these instructions. Note that sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable actually needs to be changed to `sudo apt install --install-recommends wine-stable

I follow these instructions. However, I realized that my Office 2013 version was 64 bit and that therefore Wine wouldn't run the setup.exe.

So I ran

rm -rf ~/.wine/Office2013

to remove the WINEPREFIX, and replaced it by changing win32 with win64:

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine/Office2013 WINEARCH=win64 winecfg

The installer ran until it said it ran into an error. I then followed the instructions here which said that a few more winetricks needed to be installed in addition to msxml16 which the first tutorial already installs. 

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine/Office2013 WINEARCH=win64 winetricks msxml6 msftedit riched20 riched30 vb6run corefonts

However, I still go the same error. I'm not sure if I simply need to have the 32 bit version or if there's something left I'm missing.

Setting up your own private Docker Hub Repository

Setting up a docker repository in Nexus requires some additional configuration as the Docker api needs to run on a separate port. Once set up, you can now dockerize and back up your applications to your own server!

I have all the details on how to set up your docker repo here here. I will be adding additional documentation about how to actually dockerize your applications next.

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Communicating between components

In Angular, it is vital to be able to transfer data between components, whether it's a parent/child relationship or a sibling relationship.

Check out the solutions I documented using @Input, @Output, Service, and @ViewChild with full interactive StackBlitz examples here.

Organizing different repositories and environmental variables

Organizing different publishing libraries should be straightforward in the build.gradle in situations where you might pubish to a snapshot repository vs a release repository.

In the following build.gradle, note that I can simply change the publishRepository to releasesRepository and the artifact will be published accordingly. I don't yet have a sexy solution for having the "SNAPSHOT" at the end of the version, but I will report back if I streamline that further.

Setting up a Free, Self Hosted, Photo Storage Alternative

I am amazed at how good this free and open-source photo solution is. A software called Immich, developed by an electrical/software engineer, who wanted no-limits, private, free alternative to storing photos after starting a family.

Hey, I also started a family not that long ago and all of the sudden, I started taking TONS of photos. Fortunately for me, Alex has already created this amazing solution and open-sourced it, so that the whole community gets to use this!

Building a Home Server with an old PC

So I had an old PC laying in the closet that I haven't touched in probably 2 to 3 years and decided to turn it into a new toy for the house. In today's post, I will go over installing Ubuntu on our old desktop, configuring it as a network drive, configuring Remote Desktop, and talk about the things I want to do with this.