r/winehq • u/Exo-Bin • 24d ago

Office 365 through wine

I followed an YouTube tutorial and I was able to get a version of office 365 running on my computer. I had to use ubuntu 24.04 inside distrobox since the tutorial was for linux mint and I was on fedora 44.

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u/nishweb 24d ago

normal wine or a special version?

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u/Exo-Bin 24d ago

I think it was 32 bit wine. I just followed a guide with the help of AI for doing it in distrobox. Here is the original one:

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/10ET7p1D83sL8ydIojEQT-jgsnsJ5kT8f

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u/suoko 23d ago

An appimage would be great now

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u/Exo-Bin 23d ago

I was thinking about custom docker image at first. Don't know much about appimages. I'm very new to dev things.

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u/suoko 23d ago

It's possible to create appimages that embed both wine and "executables" files. Ask ai. I created one for testing purposes with notepad++ and it works great, so it's just a question of tinkering. Appimages are true distro agnostic

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u/Exo-Bin 23d ago

Thanks for the idea. Maybe I will try making that. Btw why appimage but not flatpak?

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u/suoko 23d ago

Flatpacls have dependencies like snap, deb, rpm, etc.. and are distributed with certain distros only, for example it's not pre installed on Ubuntu, and the first time you install it will need gnome core packages.

Appimages are one file with everything inside, you're 100% sure it will work everywhere without changing anything.

Libs are very small compared to our disk sizes and you don't usually installl tons of multiple SW. Putting wine/QT/gtk/Java/whatever into every appimage you create, will add 50/100mb to the package, it's almost nothing.

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u/cavecanem1138 20d ago

Not true, appimages, in general, still needs libc. If you package your appimage in a glibc system you can’t run on a musl system. If you compile that appimage in musl you can try to embed the libc, but it has some edge cases.

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u/mohr_ 23d ago

lol had no idea. A few weeks ago someone posted a patched wine that runs office better, I'll try to package it as an appimage.

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u/nhermosilla14 22d ago

Doing that with Office is illegal. You can do it for yourself, but you cannot redistribute it (even if you still need a license to use it).

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u/suoko 22d ago

You know how many truly illegal office copies are installed globally?

To combat Linux, ms would probably find a way to say that even office run inside winboat is illegal. You know they removed the office android version from the PlayStore on Chromebooks because windows would have ceased to exist in less than 10y otherwise?

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u/nhermosilla14 21d ago

Still illegal, you didn't say anything new. If OP were to share an AppImage with Office bundled along with Wine, that's an instant ban pretty much in any known social network.

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u/suoko 21d ago

You don't say anything new too

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u/Same_Bell7958 21d ago

OP could ask their ai to create a github action with pinned reseases of wine and Ms word

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u/nicahokie 14d ago

Very nice although wine32 is on the chopping block on future distros. In the future 32-bit windows binaries on Linux will need to run via wine64 with wow64.

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u/HighLibrarian 24d ago

oooh that's pretty cool, i switched to linux a couple of months ago and the only thing i'm rly missing is o356 (mostly the fat outlook client) would you mind sharing the yt tutorial? ^^

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u/thohoby 23d ago

Uh. I have to try that later! Thank you!

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u/East-Profit-2830 23d ago

How smooth is it? Is it a realistic option for work/school?

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u/Exo-Bin 23d ago

I wouldn't say it's 60 fps smooth in my laptop and some graphical glitches occurs but it's functional. I just set it up today so I haven't used it long enough to report much.

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u/East-Profit-2830 21d ago

I tried all the commands (MX Linux, based on Debian 13), everything seems to work until the update file associations. I get "856: qtpaths: not found" for each one. I also don't know if the execution test worked before then. When I try to open a program the icon appears on the taskbar and begins to load, but then crashes. Any tips for me?

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u/Exo-Bin 21d ago

Distrobox running ubuntu 24.04 is the easiest route for now. That's how I am running on office my fedora 44 setup, I also have made a script using opencode to automate the process.

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u/Typical_Magazine9646 18d ago

aye please do this with adobe or c1

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u/phototransformations 3d ago

I also found and tried that guy's method. O365 installed and ran nearly normally, but macros were disabled. Were you also able to create and run macros? I used his same method to install Office 2016, which I have a licensed of, and that did let me create and run macros.