You probably already have LibreOffice Office Suite installed in Ubuntu and you’re happy with it. Well, more power unto you. This brief tutorial is going to show those of you who need Microsoft Office 2010 installed in Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin). Even though LibreOffice is a great productivity suite, in some situations, M$ Office will be required in order to get your work done. If you need to edit or collaborate on MS Office documents, use Outlook with Exchange without missing some features, or install and use OneNote, you’ll definitely need Microsoft Office. Using Wine, you can install and use Microsoft Office Suite in Linux systems, including Ubuntu. It’s not perfect, but good and can get the job done.
So, without wasting anymore of your time, lets’ get going.
Objectives:
To get started, press Ctrl – Alt – T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the commands below to add Wine PPA.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
Next, run the commands below to update your system and install the latest version of Wine
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install wine1.5
After that, go to Dash and launch Winetricks.
When Winetricks opens, choose ‘Select the default wineprefix’ and click ‘OK’
Then choose ‘Install a Windows DDL or component’ and click ‘OK’
Next, select both ‘dotnet20’ and ‘msxml6’ from this screen to install.
After installing those two components, go back to Winetricks and choose to install a font.
Next, choose to install corefonts
After installing, the corefonts, go back to Winetricks and choose ‘Run winecfg’
Then select ‘Libraries’ tab and make sure these DLLs are added. The select each DDL and click ‘Edit’and change the overrides for each DDL to ‘Native’ (Windows)
After that, close out of Winetricks insert your Office CD/DVD or ISO and double click ‘setup.exe’.
Next, click ‘Install Now’ . After installing, remove the CD/DVD and begin using Office.
To launch Microsoft Excel, press Ctrl – Alt – T to open Terminal. Then run the line below
wine "C:/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office14/excel.exe"
To launch Microsoft Word, run the line below
wine "C:/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office14/winword.exe"
PowerPoint, copy and paste the line below
wine "C:/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office14/powerpnt.exe"
Enjoy!
The Insync repository is available for:
If you're using one of the above Ubuntu, Debian or Linux Mint versions, add the repository using the following command:
- for Ubuntu:
echo "deb http://apt.insynchq.com/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) non-free" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/insync.list
- for Debian:
echo "deb http://apt.insynchq.com/debian $(lsb_release -cs) non-free" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
- for Linux Mint
echo "deb http://apt.insynchq.com/mint $(lsb_release -cs) non-free" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/insync.list
Then, for any of the above, import the key and update the software sources:
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And finally, install Insync if you haven't already:
Unity (appindicator):
sudo apt-get install insync-beta-ubuntu
GNOME Shell:
sudo apt-get install insync-beta-gnome
Cinnamon:
sudo apt-get install insync-beta-cinnamon
KDE4:
sudo apt-get install insync-beta-kde
For other Linux distributions, see the new Insync Linux page:https://www.insynchq.com/linux
This brief guide shows you how to remove gnome-screensaver, install xscreensaver and activate it so that when your computer becomes idled, screensavers will be shown instead of a blank screen.
Objectives:
To get started, press Ctrl – Alt – T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When Terminal opens, run the commands below to remove gnome screensaver.
sudo apt-get remove gnome-screensaver
Next, run the command below to install Xscreensaver and other plugins.
sudo apt-get install xscreensaver xscreensaver-gl-extra xscreensaver-data-extra
After installing, go to ‘Control –> Startup Applications’
Then click ‘Add’ and type the entry below:
Name: xscreensaver
Command: xscreensaver –nosplash
xscreensaver -nosplash
Finally click ‘Add’
When finish, open ‘Dash’ and search for xscreensaver. Open it and customize it.
Enjoy!
Grub customizer allow user to change in boot menu items, you can add, rename, remove, reorder boot menu items. Grub Customization software also allow changes to the Grub 2 configuration settings such as pictures in background and menu timeout.
To install Grub Customization Software, First open terminal (Press Alt+F2 and type: gnome-terminal) and copy the following commands in the terminal:
How to clone LINUX ? easy
nainstalovat gdrescue
sudo apt-get install gdrescue
sudo ddrescue -v dev/sda dev/sdb