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Installing Office on Arch Linux

This short and concise guide lists all the required commands to install all the Office suite (version 2013 and 2016 supported) on Arch Linux (or any other Arch-based distro). Works under Wayland and using Window Managers (tested using Hyprland on Arch, Artix and CachyOS).

[!IMPORTANT] Read the docs (RTFM)

I - Install required graphic drivers​

On NVIDIA​

Check the correct and working latest driver version or install the nouveau drivers instead.

sudo pacman -S nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils

NVIDIA & all others​

sudo pacman -S mesa mesa-utils lib32-mesa lib32-mesa-utils

II - Install wine​

sudo pacman -S wine wine-gecko wine-mono

yay -S winetricks

III - Install dependencies​

[!NOTE] Samba contains the required winbind package.

sudo pacman -S zenity cabextract samba gnutls lib32-gnutls lib32-libxinerama lib32-libxcomposite lib32-v4l-utils lib32-ncurses lib32-lcms

IV - Install fonts​

yay -S ttf-ms-fonts OR yay -S ttf-ms-win11-auto

V - Setup the wineprefix​

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine/office2013 WINEARCH=win32 winecfg

Select Windows 7 and quit.

Install packages (not all of them are needed, at least msxml6 riched20 should be installed, then riched30 richtx32 vb6run gdiplus if problems arise).

If you are lazy like me, install them all™:

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine/office2013 WINEARCH=win32 winetricks msxml3 msxml6 riched20 riched30 richtx32 corefonts tahoma msftedit vb6run gdiplus

VI - Run the installer​

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine/office2013 WINEARCH=win32 wine /path/to/msoffice/folder/setup.exe

VII - Regedit​

Run regedit (using winecfg, bash or winetricks) in the wine prefix.

Create a new DWORD HKCU/Software/Wine/Direct3D/MaxVersionGL=0x30002

Create a new DWORD HKCU/Software/Wine/Direct2D/max_version_factory=0

VIII - Office 2016 & 2019 specifics​

Depending on your installer, two scenarii may happen:

  • Your installer enters in a infinite loop at around 75% completion (see the console logs) "finalizing stuff..." --> kill it (do NOT cancel it)
  • Your installer works: After your installation, copy the AppvIsvSubsystems32.dll and the C2R32.dll, from /Program Files/Common Files/Microsoft Shared/ClickToRun/ to /Program Files/Microsoft Office/root/Office16/

References​