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