Adobe Photoshop CS2 (Wine) works only on Linux Mint

[archp2008]

I have six flavors of Ubuntu installed in a multiboot setup. I find that Adobe CS2 installs and works on Linux Mint 15 (now upgraded to 16) but hangs on Ubuntu/UbuntuStudio/Lubuntu/Xubuntu/ and Kubuntu. As a matter of interest is there any obvious explanation why I have had success only with Mint? I installed the highest numbered version of Wine listed in Synaptic Mananger in each distro.

[oiaohm]

archp2008 really not enough details to be any help at all.

wine --version to start off with. If the distributions have the same version wine most case the result should be the same. It is possible that mint is installing different version numbers to everything else. I think mint include PPA of wine out box where the others you have to add that or your get a Ubuntu customized version.

Reporting problems do include tested wine --version numbers.

[archp2008]

Thanks for the reply. How do I tell the version number of Wine that is installed in the Mint where it is working? I had a quick look at a guide on your site for installing CS2 in Wine. I did not follow this guide or any other guide. The only thing I did was to load the setup.exe with the Wine loader. Other than that the procedure was the same as for Windows. With Mint I got the chance to check activation options, etc. With the other distros I could not get beyond the opening interface of CS2 which looked perfect but was frozen. Being that I have CS2 working in one distro besides Windows the only reason for having multiple installs is for convenience. BTW, is it possible to access the home folders to load images from one distro to the other?

[archp2008]

The version of Wine in Mint appears to be 1.4 32-bit

[archp2008]

Wine installed appears to be 1.4 in Mint, 1.6.2 in 3 of the other 4 and probably the same in the other one (I uninstalled it after CS2 failed.) I am wondering whether to try version 1.4 in the others to see what happens.

[archp2008]

I have downloaded and extracted the files for version 1.41 but have no idea how to install from this folder of extracted files. There are a dozen or so readme files inside one of the subfolders which may or may not help but none of them is in English. I didn't see any terminal line commands in the text files I looked at. Are Linux terminal commands the same in all languages?

[oiaohm]

"wine --version" tells you the installed version 1.4 is no longer supported.

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 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.7 winetricks

Adding the PPA should allow you to pull in 1.6 and 1.7 versions of wine. You should try the latest 1.7 before going back to unsupported.

The problem we have had no one testing Adobe Photoshop CS2 and reporting working or not working status.