Adobe digital editions4.xx + Wine1.7.33 + Xubuntu14.04-amd64

[dimesio]

This isn't a Wine problem; it might be something to report to your distro, but since you got it working once, it's obviously something that can work on Xubuntu.

One more thing to try (probably won't make a difference, but it's easy): instead of using export, specify the WINEPREFIX for every command.

[dimesio]

I had time and was curious, so I installed 64 bit Xubuntu 14.04 in a VM, installed the current (1.7.33) Wine package from the Ubuntu Wine PPA and winetricks 20141130 from winetricks.org into it, and then tested the ADE 4.0 installer. I intentionally did not install winbind at first just to see what would happen.

ADE installed just fine, but crashed on start without winbind. Installing winbind fixed that, and ADE 4.0 now works just fine in my Xubuntu 14.04 VM. And yes, I got those p11-kit messages in the console, too; as I suspected, they are harmless.

I don't know what you are doing wrong, but clearly it is something you are doing, not some imaginary incompatibility between Wine and Xubuntu.

[biesta]

Thank you for this info, that's exactly what I needed to know.
I've revived my old computer (named 'ari'), installed xubuntu from CD, winbind, wine, winetricks, WINEPREFIX as before, corefonts + dotnet40, ADE4, - failed!
So where did you get your xubuntu from?
I had mine from here: http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Downloads/Tr ... ht=xubuntu

[dimesio]

I got it from http://xubuntu.org/getxubuntu/.

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8b06ac9d76186721312c17a851801e2e  xubuntu-14.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso

[biesta]

Victoire! Vittoria! Victory! Victoria! (sorry, "Sieg" does not fit in this sequence, it was my version 'v'.)

The explanation for the malfunction is as simple as trivial.
The command "$ WINEARCH=win32 winecfg" creates the directory as specified by WINEPREFIX and builds the configuration in it. Then it shows a GUI-window named "Wine Configuration", with a dropdown field named "Windows Version", and a default setting "Windows XP".
I must NOT do any changes in that Window, just click the OK-button.
If I change "Windows XP" to "Windows7" then the ADE installation fails.

The simplest sequence of commands might be:

(install xubuntu14.04-amd64; system ubdate...)

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$ sudo apt-get install winbind
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install wine1.7
$ wget http://winetricks.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/winetricks
$ sudo cp -f winetricks /usr/bin
$ sudo cp -f winetricks /usr/bin/X11
$ sudo chmod 555 /usr/bin/winetricks
$ sudo chmod 555 /usr/bin/X11/winetricks
$ export WINEPREFIX=~/wine32a
$ WINEARCH=win32  winecfg
$ winetricks -q corefonts dotnet40
     (download ADE-4.xx from  http://www.adobe.com/de/solutions/ebook/digital-editions/download.html )
$ wine ~/Downloads/ADE_4.0_Installer.exe

...that's all!

Just for info:
$ wine --version -> 1.7.33
$ winetricks -V -> 20141125

wine+winetricks installed from the ubuntu package is version 1.6.2 and does NOT work.
The xubuntu from ubuntuusers or from xubuntu.org doesn't make a difference.

Special thanks to Rosanne Dimesio!

[dimesio]

If I change "Windows XP" to "Windows7" then the ADE installation fails.

I'm glad you figured that out on your own, but I have to tell you, you would have saved us both a lot of trouble if you had told me you were changing the Windows version in the first place: I would have told you immediately to set it back to XP. In the future, when asking for help, please explain everything you've done, even the things you might think are unimportant. And don't change any default settings without a reason.

[biesta]

I would have told you immediately to set it back to XP

Oh what a pity that you didn'd do that! Now that's in the past, and nobody can change the past, as you certainly know.

To make up for that, I've added a "how-to-install" to the ADE-4.0 article in the AppDB.
I'm quite confident that it will be useful in the future. Besides that: thank you again for your help.