I installed Kindle for PC, Adobe Digital Editions and ActivePython2.7 on Ubuntu 17.1 Mate, on a laptop. After the installation I find launch icons on my main menu for Kindle, two icons for Adobe Digital Editions and a set for Python2.7, including one for idle, one for an interactive shell and one for a package manager. If I click on the launch icons in the menu either of the Adobe Digital Editions will open the application, the others will hourglass and the close without opening an application or an error message. Also in the Other menu besides the icons metioned above are located several wine icons (help & homepage) and an activePython documentation icon. Clicking on these will produce a "Path not found" error box followed by a "There is no Windows program configured to open this type of file."
Ok so let's try the terminal using the wine command as in $ wine kindle. This produces the following error "wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\kindle.exe" Trying wine adobe_diged produces the same message with adobe.exe at the end. On the other hand wine python will open an interactive activepython 2.7 session.
So let's try to find the .exe files on my system. Let me say first what a nightmare. I found the ADE (Adobe Digial Editions) .exe file in the path ~/.local/share/wineprefixes/adobe_diged/dosdevices/program files (x86)/Adobe/Adobe Digital Editions/digitaleditions.exe - whew! Using the same path there is a fork at adobe_diged where you can use drive_c instead of dosdevices and going down the rest of the path you will arrive at the same place. Searching for Kindle, same story. Python was located at ~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Python27/python.exe Let me add something I should have probably stated earlier - Kindle and ADE were installed via winetricks while python was installed from wine.
I also need to add at this time in my main menu under subheading Wine: there are several icons one labeled Programs -> Accessories -> Note and another labeled browse C: Drive which shows a folder structure including Python27 but neither Kindle nor ADE show up anywhere.
So, I know I'm making mistakes and I would like to correct them because now my file system appears to be a mess. I have numerous menu icons that lead to nowhere. I can open one application from the terminal and I can open one application from the main menu. I seem to have file and file structures thrown randomly throughout my system. The logic of how they got there is beyond me. I think I can see that an install from winetricks will not necessarily.
So, this sounds like a rant but its not. I know the main culprit is me. Googling, reading the docs seems to only deepen my confusion. What I would like to do is install some programs, be able to find them and have a reliable way to open them. Hopefully some of you with more wine experience (pun not intended ..well kinda
) can read this, chuckle, shake your head and say - next time do this!Hopefully
