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InvisibleShadowGhost
Asked: 2019-03-31 08:12:21 +0800 CST

Equivalent to ms-office-online AUR package

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Does anyone know whether there is an Ubuntu equivalent to the ms-office-online package from the AUR ms-office-online 20.1.0-2?

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  1. Best Answer

    According to Repology this package is available only for Arch and Manjaro:

    but you can clone this repository and use the application by steps below:

    sudo apt install git
#sudo apt install python3-setuptools # for 18.04 LTS
#sudo apt install gir1.2-webkit2-4.0 #GTK Bindings if you are on KDE

cd ~/Downloads
git clone https://github.com/codesardine/Jade-Application-Kit.git
cd Jade-Application-Kit
sudo python3 ./setup.py install

cd ~/Downloads
git clone https://gitlab.manjaro.org/applications/ms-office-online-launcher/tree/a28c813678dfaa5a1923cc6c9e7ef758dfbae8dd
cd ms-office-online-launcher/
sudo make install

    And then use it with ms- prefixed commands:

    • ms-excel
    • ms-office - seems to be main Office executable
    • ms-onenote
    • ms-outlook
    • ms-powerpoint
    • ms-skype
    • ms-word

    or by using menu of your desktop:

    Microsoft Online stuff in menu

    Below is a screenshot for ms-office command:

    <code>ms-office</code>

    Tested this method on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS as well as POP!_OS 19.04.

    Note that this is using a legacy version of ms-office-online-launcher as the commit from 15 Jun, 2019 broke compatibility.

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  2. There is a snap package available now: https://snapcraft.io/unofficial-webapp-office

    To install it, run the following command in a terminal:

    sudo apt update && sudo snap install unofficial-webapp-office

    If you have not installed snap yet, install it first by running:

    sudo apt update && sudo apt -y install snapd

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