CHAPTER 28 RUNNING MICROSOFT OFFICE UNDER UBUNTU Note I experienced a few weird bugs when running some Office programs. For example, the text in the Office Assistant dialog boxes didn t appear. I also found that the clipboard didn t work correctly when two or more Office applications were running (it seemed fine with just one application). You might encounter similar problems, but you should find that the key functions work. Installing Other Windows Programs A lot of Windows applications will install and work under Wine. Installing them is usually a matter of typing this: wine As I mentioned earlier, the Wine database (http://appdb.winehq.org) often details the best way to get Windows software working. Very nearly every mainstream Windows program can be made to work, although it may take a little extra effort. If there s a program that doesn t work, you can suggest it to the developers. The site contains a list of the top 25 programs that don t work, but which people would like to see up and running under Wine. In my tests, I managed to use Wine to install the popular WinZip archiving application, as well as the Winamp Lite audio software and Adobe Photoshop 6. Figure 28-4 shows each up and running. Figure 28-3. Although it sometimes takes a bit of effort, virtually any Windows application can be made to run under Ubuntu.
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