Uninstalling/reinstalling Kindle made it unusable!

[kndl65]

Unfortunately I made a big mistake. Thinking that there was a new version of Kindle for PC from Amazon, downloaded the .exe file and run it with wine without uninstalling the already installed Kindle application which was working fine under Ubuntu 8.04.

So, the installation began but halted unexpectedly. I tried to run it double clicking the program icon and nothing happened. Changed wine to an older version, nothing again.

This was the output from the command line when I run

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wine '/home/xxxx/Downloads/KindleForPC-Installer.exe'

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fixme:advapi:CheckTokenMembership ((nil) 0x1413c0 0x33f8f0) stub!
fixme:advapi:CheckTokenMembership ((nil) 0x1413c0 0x33f8f0) stub!
fixme:advapi:CheckTokenMembership ((nil) 0x1413c0 0x33f8f0) stub!
fixme:advapi:CheckTokenMembership ((nil) 0x1413c0 0x33f8f0) stub!
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
xxxx@yyyy--06:16:05> fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:crypt:CertGetNameStringW unimplemented for type 2
 

The command line output then stopped, waiting as if something was imminent. Nothing happened though. I pressed enter and the xxxx@yyyy returned.

Would you be kind enough advising me what to do?(I've already bought a couple of Kindle books).

[dimesio]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21485

[kndl65]

Thanks for the reply!! In that thread you provided there is a suggestion that only the first beta version of Kindle For PC works under wine. The problem was where were that beta file. One person in that thread provides http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/K ... 43957.html
which solved the problem. Says to "grab it while still available". It worked!