Applications on Vista Partition

kbaxter · Post by **kbaxter** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 1:53 am

I have several programs (Adobe CS2 etc...) installed on a Windows Vista partition. So far I haven't been able to use Wine to run these executables. I installed Wine with the hope that I could operate these programs from within my Ubuntu partition.

Is this not the way Wine is programmed to operate? Are there steps I am missing? What am I doing wrong?

L. Rahyen · Post by **L. Rahyen** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 2:23 am

On 2009-01-25 (Sunday) 06:53:06 kbaxter wrote:

I have several programs (Adobe CS2 etc...) installed on a Windows Vista
partition. So far I haven't been able to use Wine to run these executables.

Did you installed program(s) you want to run in Wine? If not then of course
they will not work. Imagine that you have installed clean Windows on another
PC and then accessed your programs installed on another Windows PC via
network. Will you expect that programs installed on another Windows will work
(without their registry keys and in different disk letter / network drive)?
Don't think so. Wine is no different.
If you installed your program in Wine and it still doesn't work you may want
to read information in http://appdb.winehq.org about your application and if
this doesn't help ask here for help but don't forget to mention your Wine
version, post terminal output and describe your problem.

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 3:17 am

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 12:53 AM, kbaxter <[email protected]> wrote:

I have several programs (Adobe CS2 etc...) installed on a Windows Vista partition. So far I haven't been able to use Wine to run these executables. I installed Wine with the hope that I could operate these programs from within my Ubuntu partition.

Is this not the way Wine is programmed to operate?

No.

--
-Austin

kbaxter · Post by **kbaxter** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 3:54 am

I am using Wine 1.1.13 on my Ubuntu 8.04 Partition...

After my initial post I was able to get Adobe Photoshop CS2 to launch by mounting my other partition and simply double clicking the .exe...

Inside the application things seemed to work fairly well during my brief trial, only I was unable to use keyboard shortcuts without freezing the application...

Feedback much appreciated!

L. Rahyen · Post by **L. Rahyen** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 4:26 am

On 2009-01-25 (Sunday) 08:54:18 kbaxter wrote:

I am using Wine 1.1.13 on my Ubuntu 8.04 Partition...

After my initial post I was able to get Adobe Photoshop CS2 to launch by
mounting my other partition and simply double clicking the .exe...

Again, I repeat: please *install* the program *in Wine* if you really want it
working properly (and if you want to get any kind of help in this forum).
Only thing you should mount to run Windows programs in Wine is installation
CD/DVD or CD/DVD image, *not* Windows partition(s) with program(s) installed
outside of Wine (in Windows, for example).

Don't use executables in Windows partitions! As I explained before this will
not work properly on Windows too because an application will not find its
registry keys if you try to run it in OS where it wasn't installed!

Please read HOWTO section in AppDB article about Adobe Photoshop CS2 here:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... n&iId=2631 and follow
steps described there to install and run Photoshop CS2.

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 3:45 pm

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 2:54 AM, kbaxter <[email protected]> wrote:

I am using Wine 1.1.13 on my Ubuntu 8.04 Partition...

After my initial post I was able to get Adobe Photoshop CS2 to launch by mounting my other partition and simply double clicking the .exe...

Inside the application things seemed to work fairly well during my brief trial, only I was unable to use keyboard shortcuts without freezing the application...

Feedback much appreciated!

It may work, yes, as it does in windows sometimes. But whenever your
windows partition is hosed, don't expect Wine to be able to help you.

--
-Austin

James Mckenzie · Post by **James Mckenzie** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 11:34 pm

kbaxter <[email protected]> wrote:

Sent: Jan 24, 2009 11:53 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Wine] Applications on Vista Partition

I have several programs (Adobe CS2 etc...) installed on a Windows Vista partition. So far I haven't been able to
use Wine to run these executables. I installed Wine with the hope that I could operate these programs from within >my Ubuntu partition.

You made an incorrect assumption. You have to install these programs from within Wine. This is the only sure method that they will run properly.

Is this not the way Wine is programmed to operate? Are there steps I am missing? What am I doing wrong?

No. Wine is not designed to work the way that you want to. You cannot just install Wine and then assign a drive letter to your Vista partition and then go right to work.

Sorry if his is the impression you received, but alas it is incorrect.

James McKenzie