Equivalent to ms-office-online AUR package

Question

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?

Answer 1

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

• ms-office-online;
• ms-office-online's dependency - jade-application-kit

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:

Below is a screenshot for ms-office command:

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.

Answer 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