Trying to Install School Physics IOLab Software?

[MagosSarah]

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to install my school's physics lab software so I won't have to boot windows, although I think this may be a bit of an ambitious project for me since I'm faily new to using wine.
The program (IOLab) can be found here: https://iolab.science/running-application.html and is a simple program that records data from a USB wireless reciever for a physics sensor package.

The problems I've identified are:
1) The installer must not be run as administrator (which I can't figure out how to do) running `wine IOLAB_filename_here` from the terminal on my Manjaro system tries to use the administrator account

2) The lab manual has to be in a specific place (Documents/IOLab-WorkFiles/activities/lessons) (or else IOLab can't read it. These folders are created as a part of the installer process though)

How can I solve these problems and install the IOLab software?
Thank you for your time

[jkfloris]

The installer seems to work fine with wine-staging.
After the program was installed, it started automatically.
Unfortunately with a blank screen.
However, after restarting the program from the installation folder, it did seem to work.

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cd "${HOME}/.wine/drive_c/users/<username>/AppData/Local/IOLab/app-1.80.1605"
wine iolab.exe

Unfortunately, I have no sensors to test the program further.

[MagosSarah]

It does appear to install, but doesn't detect the USB despite it being plugged in