Anyone successfully installed Onenote? [solved]

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Has anyone managed to install Onenote on MX Linux 19?

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Has anyone managed to install Onenote on MX Linux 19?

I was able to get MS Office 365 installed on an MX 19 system at work using Crossover Office version 18.5. OneNote, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint were all working for me. Not a great experience - high CPU usage, higher heat and fan usage, and occasional random crashes. But, you could get some work done. I would definitely recommend trying it through Crossover Office, as I couldn't get normal wine to install it. Crossover Office has special scripts for MS Office products.

I find that the web app version of OneNote is good enough for my simple uses: https://products.office.com/en-us/oneno ... -app?rtc=1
Also, P3X OneNote gives you the OneNote web app in an electron shell that you can install via Appimage download: https://electronjs.org/apps/p3x-onenote
Both the Appimage of P3X OneNote and the normal web app have worked for me on the MX 19 system at work.

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OK, thank you. So does appimage version work reliably and without lags? I am using the online version of Onenote but am looking for something to work offline and with less not more lags.

I am on thinkpad x200, whose low specs might cause problems, based on what you write.

[andyprough]

OK, thank you. So does appimage version work reliably and without lags? I am using the online version of Onenote but am looking for something to work offline and with less not more lags.

I am on thinkpad x200, whose low specs might cause problems, based on what you write.

The appimage version is simply the web app in an electron shell (a stripped down version of chromium) - so it is not an off-line version from my experience. You would need to be online to run it.

Is your x200 one that was built with a max of 4GB of ram? If so, you might try installing OneNote with Crossover Office, but it will probably run poorly. You could improve your experience by using an SSD, or by using a system with a higher max ram. Crossover Office usually offers a one-week free trial, so there's no harm in trying it.

If all you want is a note-taking app, you might want to try apps that are similar to OneNote but run natively on GNU/Linux. Here are 4 note-taking apps that I've heard of, there may be some better ones if you search around:
elephant: http://elephant.mine.nu/
simplenote: https://simplenote.com/
turtl: https://turtlapp.com/
laverna: https://laverna.cc/

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My x200 is the one with p8600 core 2 duo, ssd, 4gb ram.
I went to https://snapcraft.io/p3x-onenote#cory-non-external
and tried to install the app, and here is what showed:

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Install latest/stable of P3X OneNote

Ubuntu 16.04 or later?
View in Desktop store
Make sure snap support is enabled in your Desktop store.

Install using the command line

sudo snap install p3x-onenote
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Don't have snapd? Get set up for snaps.

Installing is not possible, so I think it is about enabling snapd support.

Clicking the link, I went here:
https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd

and selected Debian, so ended up here:
https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snap-on-debian

Everything went well until this moment:
$ snap install hello-world
error: cannot communicate with server: Post http://localhost/v2/snaps/hello-world: dial unix /run/snapd.socket: connect: no such file or directory


Am I correct in choosing Debian? How progress with that ?

Thanks
Tom


Crossover is paid, so maybe not now.

[andyprough]

Hi Tom,
I have not tried to install any snap packages, so I don't know much about how those work. The same page has an appimage package though. Just download it, right click on the downloaded file, select Properties, and make sure the file is Executable. Then you should be able to just left click on the file to start the OneNote program. It will ask you to sign in and take you to the web app version of OneNote.

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Works! Thank you very much.

The file to be run is not the one that is downloaded but the one that is in home/user/opt folder

I had to right-click, select properties and enabled execution.

Now, double-clicking on it runs onenote!

The app appears to work just as snappy as the windows 7 version.

Memory usage up to 63% of the 4gb I have. According to task manager 150mb used by the app itself. Not much, is it?

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I don't know about appimage files as I don't use them, but I've found that in MX memory utilization is never the bottleneck, even on a 32-bit netbook with 2GB of RAM. It's the CPU on that machine (1.6GHz Atom) that gets jammed up sometimes. No RAM or CPU bottlenecks on my laptop with 4GB RAM and a 1st generation two-core i5 Nehalam mobile processor, unless I try running an OS in a virtual machine at the same time I'm doing other things, then the memory gets tight.

Please edit your original post #1 (via the pencil icon at the top right) and add [SOLVED] to its subject. This makes it easier for others when they're searching the forum looking for solutions to the same question or problem. Thanks.

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Sure, made it show as solved.

It may take a while to see how this onenote works in the midst of a real research or study. I am used to opening a number of instances, something that is said to come with quirks - yet to find out what quirks.

At the end of the day it is about whether the app works better than the webpage version - and if it is free from showstoppers.

Anyway, great beginning. Even alt pgup/dn keys work as in the real thing!