Recently I found myself needing to install the Google Adwords Editor application and ran into a few issues with this because I am running the most recent version of Ubuntu as my operating system. After a bunch of research and some troubleshooting, I finally had some success installing the Google Adwords Editor in Ubuntu using these 5 simple steps:
Open up your Terminal and follow these steps…
1. Install Wine from the Regular Repository
sudo aptitude install wine
2. Get the Winetricks Script
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
3. Install vcrun2005
sh winetricks vcrun2005
4. Download the Google Adwords Editor (windows version)
http://www.google.com/intl/en/adwordseditor/
5. Install the Google Adwords Editor
msiexec /i adwords_editor_en-US.msi
That’s it! You are done!
You should now be able to go to Applications >> Wine >> Programs >> Google Adwords Editor and run the application. To further this experiment I had a PPC expert use this application on Ubuntu for 8 consective hours completing various tasks and everything worked perfectly.
Tim
September 14, 2010
Thanks so much…had a difficult time until I found your site. r/ Tim
blastradius
October 17, 2010
Brilliant!
Installed perfectly in minutes, thanks for this, another nail in the Windows coffin for me, just HTML-Kit to go!
huguz
November 21, 2010
Thanks a lot…worked like a charm
Tony
December 2, 2010
Thanks a bunch
Jordan McClements
January 17, 2011
Thanks so much for this.
I have an old laptop with Ubuntu 10.10 on it now.
95% of the time all I need to use on it is Firefox. But the one thing I *really* missed the other 5% of the time was AdWords Editor.
Shame on Google for not releasing a Linux version…
PS –
I know practically nothing about linux, if you know anything about linux, stop reading now…
“sudo aptitude install wine”
gave me an error
but it worked when after a quick search on Google suggested:
“sudo apt-get install wine”
Also – for anyone with a default install of Ubuntu 10.10, using firefox, the .msi file will be in the /tmp folder so you’ll need to type
msiexec /i /tmp/adwords_editor_en-US.msi
Thanks again.
Jason
October 2, 2011
I love linux but if I cannot get adwords editor to work I will have to switch back to windows. I know nothing about computers beyond that of a normal everyday user. I would appreciate if someone could give me or point me towards step by tiny little step (i.e. click here, open this, type this) for installing adwords editor. When most people hear I run ubuntu they assume I have more than average computer knowledge but I don’t I like it because its secure and free. Thanks in advance for any help.
Jordan McClements
November 11, 2011
Well, I tried upgrading to the latest version of AdWords Editor (I knew this would be a mistake) – version 9.5.something.
It refused to upgrade properly, and refuses to be removed.
I pugraded to Ubuntu 11.10 (not too easy).
Unistalled wine
reinstalled wine.
downlaoded adwords edit,
installed adwords editor again – but still refuses to install or let me remove version 9.5 from Wine.
I just cannot afford to waste any more time on trying to get this working, and a laptop that will not run AdWords Editor is not much good to me.
Looks like I have 2 options.
1. Reformat HD, and Install Unbuntu again from scratch, and hoe I can get adwords editor working next time.
2. Buy a new laptop with Windows 7 on it.
Thanks Google for not providing a Linux version of AdWords Editor!
Chase
November 11, 2011
@Jordan I’m sorry to hear that. It doesn’t make sense to me why Google can’t keep something updated like this. It seems to me that Google is dropping the ball more than ever these days.
sherlockseo
February 19, 2012
hi
I’m pretty new user in Ubuntu
tried to install AdWords as specified above
I use Ubuntu 11.10
I downloaded latest edition of AdWords into my Downloads folder
not quite sure how to run the “msiexec /i adwords_editor_en-US.msi” command if my .msi file is under Downloads folder
I used cd Downloads in the terminal to reach to this folder then used the “msiexec /i adwords_editor_en-US.msi” command and nothing happens
what am I missing here?
thanx