Microsoft Office 2016 - offline version

prog-amateur · May 22, 2022, 1:23pm

Hello,

Thank you very much for your application that greatly facilitates the understanding of Windows installations with your very practical graphic interface.
BUT… I’m not good enough!

I have an official offline version of MS Office 2016 at home (carton box with the product key). The file format is a .img containing the following tree structure:

In office folder, there are many contents (folders & files).

So, how can I install Office 2016 offline with this file type please?

Thanks again for your precious help!

zakapslowany · May 22, 2022, 2:43pm

Hello. Welcome to Bottles forum.

So this means it’s USB image. You can either research if it is possible to mount .img file like .iso files or wait for Bottles to add a way to mount .iso images (and see if it works with .img) and then try it.

Here’s the issue on github that talks about it:

github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottles

[Request] A way to mount / unmount CD images when launching a program

opened 07:35AM - 23 Jan 22 UTC

TiBeN

Feature request

**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** I am looking… for a way to trigger a CD image mount before launching a program. In Lutris, i used "Pre-launch script" and "post-exist" script with simple bash script to trigger cdemu mounts / unmount. But i have not found a way in bottles to do this kind of thing. **Describe the solution you'd like** The best solution would be a cdemu (best cd drive emulator in Linux) integration. Something like a "Mount image" option in Program options. **Describe alternatives you've considered** The pre-launch / post-exit launch bash script like in Lutris is a cheaper solution but it works. It's just kind of a pain to have to create sh script file for each installed game only for that. **Additional context** Just discovered Bottles yesterday and i found it very promising so i'm planning to migrate from Lutris to Bottles, mainly because i use lutris only as a Wine frontend. I'm a kind of old school gamer, i don't use any game platforms (gog, steam etc.) but my old physical games converted to CD ISO images. My mount script is as simple as: #!/bin/bash cdemu load 0 '<iso-filepath>' sleep 3 udisksctl mount -b /dev/sr0 sleep 3 It could be better i suppose, but it does not require root.

Sorry for not helping more, but I myself also wait for this feature since I don’t want to waste time learning how to mount image files.

Alternatively you can try extracting the files from .img to a folder inside your Bottle and then run setup.exe but I doubt it would work

prog-amateur · May 29, 2022, 3:51pm

I am very late sorry, but thank you very much for your reply.

Too bad it is only exe compatible. Do you know how to make an empty bottle and put files into it please ?

Thank you very much again.

zakapslowany · May 29, 2022, 6:29pm

Create a new bottle.
Click “utilities” in “details & utlilites” tab
Click “Browse C:”
Create a new folder there
Extract the files from your .img file
Return to Bottles and click “run executable” button
Select the Setup.exe after locating it.

But I don’t guarantee it would work because if the installer wants to check if the CD/USB is inserted then it won’t see it and it will fail.

francescomasala · May 31, 2022, 4:33pm

I tried installing office 2016 and it was running smoothly so you should have no difficulty installing the software

prog-amateur · June 5, 2022, 5:33pm

I must first apologize for never coming back to thank you. You guys make a great community. I intend to test your recommendation. Thanks again!

prog-amateur · June 5, 2022, 7:42pm

So it seems Office is installed but I don’t know which exe shall I pick up : I have selected /home/user/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles/bottles/MS-Office/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Office 15/ClientX64/IntegratedOffice.exe

I have tried also /home/user/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles/bottles/MS-Office/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Office/Updates/Download/PackageFiles/XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX/root/Office16/EXCEL.EXE without success.

@francescomasala do you remember the path to launch tour programs ?

Thank you very much !

francescomasala · June 8, 2022, 5:57pm

I used "/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Office/Updates/Download/PackageFiles/XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX/root/Office16/EXCEL.EXE" and it went smoothly

what version of wine are you using?

prog-amateur · July 13, 2022, 3:53pm

Hello, really strange, this is exactly what I did… and I still struggle to make it work.
Version is : Win64 Application with caffe-7.7 and I have chosen Application as the environment.
How can I display the Wine version please ?
Thank you

oliver.storch · September 23, 2022, 5:32am

hi francescomasala
i am trying to install office 2016 home student on bottles. doesnt work. what were your settings when you succesfuly installed it?
thanks