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Although there are many alternatives out there, I'm not prepared to get away from Outlook yet, and I have many clients I'd like to switch over to Ubuntu but they need Outlook and won't switch because of this one thing holding them back.

Currently I have Ubuntu 11.10, Wine 1.3.35 and PlayOnLinux 4.0.14 I tried to get Wine 1.3.9 which apparently supports Office 2010 but I can't get that to install either. Not sure if it's a waste of time, but that's a separate question if it's a path worth going down.

Office 2010 starts install with PlayOnLinux no problem but half way through fails with the following error:

1: 25541 2: -2147024786 3:
C:\windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\machine.config

I'm thinking I have to install .NET framework separately first but I don't want to mindlessly install all kinds of software and makes things worse. I appreciate any advice on this so I can help promote this awesome operating system.

Braiam
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Daniel Gauthier
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All windows MS Office apps will install and work on Ubuntu if you use Crossover. Outlook does have some issues IF you, like me wish to use gmail and IMAP. This is because of the TSL and SSL security it, gmail, requires. STUNNEL(4) is supposed to resolve these problems as it acts as a middleware server, but I have yet to make it work.

So, yes, I have mine up and running, but as I use gmail and IMAP I can not get it to sync on inbox.

Jonners59
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The 32-bit version of Microsoft Office should be installable through Wine, as they refer in their site in Ubuntu 11.10; so please follow their instruction and be sure you have a version of Wine above 1.3.35. There is also a trick to solve your problem about the file machine.config.

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=17336

heiko81
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