Will Auction Defender 3 work?

[Cubeology1]

Before I completely reconfigure my system, I would like to know at least the probability of Auction Defender 3 working under Wine. It also must be stable enough to run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This is my potential deal breaking critical application when it comes to leaving Windows. Every other program I use has an equivalent Linux based option. Unfortunately the Linux and web based eBay snipers are crude and totally impractical for high volume. I tried Linux and Wine about 7 years ago and didn't have much luck with Wine working then. I would appreciate any feedback.

[dimesio]

There's no AppDB entry for it. I downloaded the app and was able to install and start it up in trial mode with winetricks vcrun6. It reported that it was able to login to my eBay account. Beyond that, you'll have to test it yourself.

[Cubeology1]

Thank you very much for taking the time to test it. I just looked up winetricks, I wasn't familiar with it. Is it necessary or does that just happen to be how your system is configured.

I just ordered a SSD so I can give Linux a shot without goofing around with my current system. Going to look at Fedora and maybe some others on a flashdrive in the meantime.

[dimesio]

The app will not run without vcrun6; winetricks is the easiest way to install it.

[Cubeology1]

I installed the program with winetricks vcrun6 and at first I thought it was working. The database and bidding part of it works just fine. But typically I added actions by drag and dropping them from a browser into the program but that would not work with this configuration even after I loaded a windows version of chrome via winetricks. So I decided I would settle for using the browser built into the program, but some hyperlinks and drop down menus wouldn't work. I figured it might need IE installed but I ran into a problem, winetricks kept returning an error the IE? wouldn't install because wine was 64bit? So I started all over again using playonlinux instead of winetricks and was able to load Auction Defender and IE7 but the built in browser still doesn't work.

This is as far as using my rusty tech skills, and trolling through forums could get me, especially since I am barely familiar with Linux at all. Any suggestions on what I can try next. FYI: I am using the Linux Mint 14.1 Cinnamon.

[dimesio]

PlayOnLinux is not supported here. The instructions below are for plain Wine.

Based on the message you reported from winetricks, you have a 64 bit wineprefix. Try installing everything to a 32 bit one. Create it with

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WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/path/to/wineprefix winecfg

(use the actual path to the wineprefix), then install to that. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#wineprefix