Howto Install Office 2010 using Wine

Microsoft Office 2010 is the most recent version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite. Formerly known as Office 14 in the initial stages of its beta cycle, it was released to customers in 2010. This howto assume that you got an ISO image of the installation media. If you are on Debian/Ubuntu you can install wine, winetricks, and winbind using sudo apt-get install wine1.5 winetricks winbind In order to install you’ll need the following native Microsoft Windows libraries (dll files)...

April 10, 2013

Howto run Netflix on Ubuntu Linux

Netflix is finally working on Linux - not native, but with a patched Wine build, you can now use Netflix under Linux. For those who are not familiar with Netflix, it is an American provider of on-demand Internet streaming media available to both North and South America, the Caribbean, United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland. How to install $ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ehoover/compholio $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install netflix-desktop The Netflix Desktop package installs all of the components necessary to run Netflix Watch Instantly under Wine, including the Windows version of Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Silverlight v4....

February 23, 2013