Here’s an alternate script that doesn’t involve wine. Perhaps that would be easier for most users. (Don’t forget to do ‘sudo apt-get install cabextract’ or ‘sudo yum install cabextract’ first if you don’t have cabextract yet.)

#!/bin/sh
set -e
set -x
mkdir mytmp
cd mytmp
wget http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/6/7/E675FFFC-2A6D-4AB0-B3EB-27C9F8C8F696/PowerPointViewer.exe
cabextract -L -F ppviewer.cab PowerPointViewer.exe
cabextract -L -F ‘CONSOL*.TTF’ ppviewer.cab