Installing Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer on Linux (openSUSE) with CrossOver

In light of my download of CrossOver I thought I’d go over a quick overview of installing IE and Office on openSUSE.

I am assuming that you’ve already purchsed, registered and downloaded 9the rpm version) crossover-pro from CodeWeavers.com so here we go:

Open up a terminal / console / xterm and:

sudo zypper install /location/of/codeweaver.rpm
or
sudo rpm -ivh /location/of/codeweaver.rpm

The installation of codeweaver crossover pro is now completed (simple enough)

Now lets go on ahead and install Microsoft Office and IE (You must have a legal copy of MS Office to run the application on your Linux box).

To do this run:

sh -c “/opt/cxoffice/bin/cxinstallwizard”

That will bring up a window like so:

In the menu chose Internet Explorer (or Office, which ever you are going to install).

If choosing office, you can choose to install from the CD-ROM or from the installer file. To change to the installer file choose the option:

Other installer file:

and just browse to the location of the setup.exe

Now it’s just like a regular installation of Microsoft Office.

If installing IE it’s even easier, it asks a few simple steps and you’re done.

Sorry this walk through is quite choppy, i’ll probably fix it up later and beautify it, but it’s halloween and many other festives to enjoy.

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