Activating Movie Magic Screenwriter 6

[JustSteph]

Hi
I have installed Movie Magic Screenwriter 6 in Wine on Ubuntu 10.4, but when I get to the activation stage, it gets stuck on "Waiting for response from server"

Anyone any idea how to fix this?

Thanks
Steph

[dimesio]

Hi
I have installed Movie Magic Screenwriter 6 in Wine on Ubuntu 10.4, but when I get to the activation stage, it gets stuck on "Waiting for response from server"

Anyone any idea how to fix this?

What version of Wine? If it's older than 1.2-rc5, upgrade. If you still have problems, run it from a terminal and post whatever messages appear.
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#run_from_terminal

[JustSteph]

Thank you.

I don't know what version of wine it is but I only installed it a few weeks ago, so I assume it's the newest one.

And running it in a terminal just began running the program. I don't know how to get it to run the activation stage in the terminal.

[JustSteph]

I checked. I have wine-1.1.42.

[dimesio]

I checked. I have wine-1.1.42.

Upgrade to 1.2-r5. Follow the instructions I linked to for running in a terminal.

[JustSteph]

I've downloaded it and extracted it into my home directory but I can't figure out how to install it.

Sorry, I'm very new at this.

[dimesio]

I've downloaded it and extracted it into my home directory but I can't figure out how to install it.

Sorry, I'm very new at this.

Sounds like you downloaded source code. You would have to build that yourself, and I doubt you want to do that.

You should be able to upgrade through your package manager, but you have to add the right repository. I believe it's ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa, and the package you want to install is called wine1.2. Beyond that I can't help, as I don't use Ubuntu; ask on the Ubuntu forum.

[JustSteph]

Thank you. I managed to upgrade to 1.2-rc7 and it solved the problem