My goal is to download DRM ebooks using ADE in WINE.
This time I stopped at the first sign of trouble to ask directions. I spent the weekend getting intimate as possible with eOS, WINE, Winetricks, .NET, Mono, and Adobe Digital Editions, and my efforts failed. Best result was ADE 1.7 launching but refusing epubs from DRM acsm files. ADE 3.0/4.5 both installed but failed to launch with so many errors I couldn't understand exactly what to address, so I tried everything. After 3 days of flailing, reading, and testing advice that had no effect, I decided on a clean slate to start over. All remnants of that list above were removed, uninstalled, working directories deleted, all gone.
One note that I'm not sure what to make of; the eOS AppCentre WINE is older than dirt--3.0?--and I read of success with latest versions of everything, including 64bit in AppDB. This time I'm proceeding command line only, even though I did that before with WINE v6.0. I'll worry about ease of use after everything is working. I'm under the impression I can, at some point, create an installation--prefix?--specific to every Windows application, so I'd like to do that this time if I need to create parallel tests.
Following some online Ubuntu instructions for WINE, that parrot most I've read:
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sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/Release.key
sudo apt-key add Release.key
sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install --install-recommends wine-stable
Then, a dead end when expecting to set up with winecfg. Both wine and winecfg not found.
At that point, I realised I had copied an apt-get instead of apt, so I did an apt-get autoremove that removed some cruft, but no change:
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bash: /usr/bin/wine: No such file or directory
winecfg: command not found
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Get:1 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu bionic/main i386 wine-stable-i386 i386 6.0.0~bionic-1 [68.2 MB]
Get:2 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 wine-stable-amd64 amd64 6.0.0~bionic-1 [70.5 MB]
Get:3 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 wine-stable amd64 6.0.0~bionic-1 [1,906 kB]
PS: Are there topic tags for posts? I don't see any. And why does the search tool tell me to wait?