I have succesfully installed office 2007 using Wine under 1 account on my parents computer (which now runs on linux mint 13 LTS XFCE). I installed it under 1 account and normally, when you do this in windows, it is installed for all accounts. But because I have installed it under Linux using Wine, this does not apply to this situation.therefore, my question is:(How) can I make office 2007 also available for the other user?I guess activating for the 2nd time (which is needed after install) will not work.Can I install it on another drive besides the win c drive and have it shared this way? Can I also create a shortcut in the wine 'start' menu under 'programs'?edit: I have successfully followed the tutorial provided by @slm. Each user now has msword available, although it has been installed only once using wine.I have created a starter (for ms word) which uses this starting command:sudo -u windows -H wine C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\\winword.exeAnd I have placed this starter in the 'office' section of the mint menu by adding the starter in the applications directory. I have edited the starter in my default editor (either gedit or leafpad):[Desktop Entry]Version=1.0Type=ApplicationName=Microsoft WordComment=Exec=sudo -u windows -H wine C:\\\\Program Files\\\\Microsoft Office\\\\Office12\\\\winword.exe\nIcon=/media/Schijf-2/MS-Word-2-icon.pngPath=Terminal=falseStartupNotify=falseCategories=OfficeIt is now perfectly listed under 'Kantoor'(which is Dutch for Office).The only thing I have not succeeded in was having all word documents open with ms word. Perhaps I will try to do that in the future. Only setting .doc  and .docx files to open with ms word was enough for me at this moment.
office 2007 under wine: available for all user accounts?
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I think what you're really looking for is this Q&A from the Wine HQ forums titled: [FAQ] [RFC] How can multiple users share an installed Wine application.=== How can multiple users share an installed Wine application? ===Wine is a per-user app; every user has their own Wine Registry, with  the list of installed apps for that user.So one user installing App A is not going to tell the Wine Registry of  any other user that App A is installed. The other user will have to  install the application as well. [1]So this scenario is not officially supported. There are some solutions  written down on the WWW as for example for Ubuntu [2].The gist of the Ubuntu Forums method mentioned in the 2nd links above, basically makes use of sudo to have the users run wine as a common user vs. each having their own installation. This would seem to be the most direct route, you'd need to follow the steps in the link, moving the previously setup Wine install + Office 2007 to a 3rd user account, windows.Any user wanting to run Wine would then do this:$ sudo -u windows -H wine notepadCommands such as this above could be aliased for your parents accounts and even added to their LinuxMint menus for easier access.