Noob but old, trying to run ACDSee

[RayTheRat]

I'm an old guy who's been around computers since the late 60s. My experience with *nix, however has been very limited. Nonetheless, I've found Windoze 7 to be too buggy to continue bashing my head against.

Right now I'm testing Ubuntu 10.x beta with Gnu GUI shell (this may be my problem, but I'm not sure...and I can revert to 9.x if needed) and attempting to find a way to run my mainstream applications (since retiring from the computer industry, I've become a freelance photographer) like ACDSee and Corel PaintShop Photo Pro under Wine.

I have Wine installed and it runs Notepad just fine. But when I try to run ACDSee, I get the wait icon for maybe 14 seconds and then it goes away without any error message or indication of failure and ACDSee doesn't even attempt to start.

Again, I'm relatively new to Wine (and although I've run a web server on linux for many years, I. far from being an expert. I can fumble through doing whatever is required to keep the server running, but that's about it.

So I'd appreciate any insight into this problem...like if there's a log that can tell me why the program didn't start or something I need to do in addition to setting the executable bit (which I've done.)

Thanks,

Ray the Rat

[dimesio]

So I'd appreciate any insight into this problem...like if there's a log that can tell me why the program didn't start or something I need to do in addition to setting the executable bit (which I've done.)

Have you installed this app in Wine? If you're trying to run it from a Windows partition, you can't do that.

How to get a log: http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#get_log

You didn't say what version of ACDSee, but from the AppDB it looks like only very old versions work in Wine. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... on&iId=299

[L. Rahyen]

On 2010-04-24 (April, Saturday) 12:27:14 RayTheRat wrote:

I'm ... attempting to find a way to run ... ACDSee and Corel PaintShop Photo

Pro under Wine.

As far as I know ACDSee doesn't work in Wine yet and I don't know any
workarounds. I recommend you to try XnView instead (read
http://www.xnview.com/en/features.html to know more about XnView). There is
also Linux equivalents like Gwenview or gThumb but these have less features
than XnView. Windows version of XnView runs perfectly in Wine for me.

Please note that there is XnView for Linux but I didn't liked it (I tried it
long time ago so you may want to try it yourself and compare with Windows
version in Wine).

Test results for PaintShop in AppDB are deprecated so you need to install
latest version of Wine and simply try it.

[lahmbi5678]

If you just need a comfortable viewer without fancy image processing functions, try an old version of ACDSee, e.g. 2.43 or 3.1 (not pro).

I myself use 3.1, from
http://www.oldversion.com/download_ACDSee_3.10.html
which is the usual shareware version, you can use it for a limited time.

[RayTheRat]

Just cuz I've been using ACDSee for so long, I have a copy of "Classic" (roughly v2.4) and it installed fine under Wine. Runs fine, too.

Paint Shop Pro is a different issue altogether. It installs fine. In the installation I disabled what I thought figured might be the most troublesome options and basically did a bare-bones installation. No joy. Blows up with a Runtime Error." Not the most helpful message I've ever seen.

Just to clarify, I have installed these apps thru Wine, rather than attempting a native installation.

So it's off to find something other than GIMP or PhotoShop, neither of which are suited to my needs.

I guess it's progress.

RtR

[DaVince]

What kind of runtime error? Could you give us some terminal output? This might indicate some missing libraries you need to install in Wine, first.

[Martin Gregorie]

On Sat, 2010-04-24 at 17:28 -0500, RayTheRat wrote:

So it's off to find something other than GIMP or PhotoShop, neither of
which are suited to my needs.

I have no idea whether it would do what you require, but have you looked
at the ImageMagick package?

ImageMagick is a set of command line programs that can be combined in
shell scripts. Consequently, the programs in that package really shine
if you need to do the same set of operations on a whole stack of images.


Martin

[Dotan Cohen]

On 24 April 2010 15:27, RayTheRat <[email protected]> wrote:

I'm an old guy who's been around computers since the late 60s.  My experience with *nix, however has been very limited.  Nonetheless, I've found Windoze 7 to be too buggy to continue bashing my head against.

Right now I'm testing Ubuntu 10.x beta with Gnu GUI shell (this may be my problem, but I'm not sure...and I can revert to 9.x if needed) and attempting to find a way to run my mainstream applications (since retiring from the computer industry, I've become a freelance photographer) like ACDSee and Corel PaintShop Photo Pro under Wine.

I have Wine installed and it runs Notepad just fine.  But when I try to run ACDSee, I get the wait icon for maybe 14 seconds and then it goes away without any error message or indication of failure and ACDSee doesn't even attempt to start.

Again, I'm relatively new to Wine (and although I've run a web server on linux for many years, I. far from being an expert.  I can fumble through doing whatever is required to keep the server running, but that's about it.

So I'd appreciate any insight into this problem...like if there's a log that can tell me why the program didn't start or something I need to do in addition to setting the executable bit (which I've done.)

Thanks,

Ray the Rat

Hi Ray. I install Kubuntu for local users, and one common "mistake" is
to try to use Windows software on Linux when there are suitable
replacements on Linux. This may or may not be your case, let's see.

What features of ACDSee are you using? If I know more about your
workflow, I may be able to recommend a native Linux alternative such
as F-Spot, Eye of Gnome, Digikam, or something else.

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