I'm an old guy who's been around computers since the late 60s. My experience with *nix, however has been very limited. Nonetheless, I've found Windoze 7 to be too buggy to continue bashing my head against. Right now I'm testing Ubuntu 10.x beta with Gnu GUI shell (this may be my problem, but I'm not sure...and I can revert to 9.x if needed) and attempting to find a way to run my mainstream applications (since retiring from the computer industry, I've become a freelance photographer) like ACDSee and Corel PaintShop Photo Pro under Wine. I have Wine installed and it runs Notepad just fine. But when I try to run ACDSee, I get the wait icon for maybe 14 seconds and then it goes away without any error message or indication of failure and ACDSee doesn't even attempt to start. Again, I'm relatively new to Wine (and although I've run a web server on linux for many years, I. far from being an expert. I can fumble through doing whatever is required to keep the server running, but that's about it. So I'd appreciate any insight into this problem...like if there's a log that can tell me why the program didn't start or something I need to do in addition to setting the executable bit (which I've done.) Thanks, Ray the Rat
RayTheRat wrote:> > So I'd appreciate any insight into this problem...like if there's a log that can tell me why the program didn't start or something I need to do in addition to setting the executable bit (which I've done.) >Have you installed this app in Wine? If you're trying to run it from a Windows partition, you can't do that. How to get a log: http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#get_log You didn't say what version of ACDSee, but from the AppDB it looks like only very old versions work in Wine. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=299
On 2010-04-24 (April, Saturday) 12:27:14 RayTheRat wrote:> I'm ... attempting to find a way to run ... ACDSee and Corel PaintShop PhotoPro under Wine. As far as I know ACDSee doesn't work in Wine yet and I don't know any workarounds. I recommend you to try XnView instead (read http://www.xnview.com/en/features.html to know more about XnView). There is also Linux equivalents like Gwenview or gThumb but these have less features than XnView. Windows version of XnView runs perfectly in Wine for me. Please note that there is XnView for Linux but I didn't liked it (I tried it long time ago so you may want to try it yourself and compare with Windows version in Wine). Test results for PaintShop in AppDB are deprecated so you need to install latest version of Wine and simply try it.
If you just need a comfortable viewer without fancy image processing functions, try an old version of ACDSee, e.g. 2.43 or 3.1 (not pro). I myself use 3.1, from http://www.oldversion.com/download_ACDSee_3.10.html which is the usual shareware version, you can use it for a limited time.
On 24 April 2010 15:27, RayTheRat <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> I'm an old guy who's been around computers since the late 60s. ?My experience with *nix, however has been very limited. ?Nonetheless, I've found Windoze 7 to be too buggy to continue bashing my head against. > > Right now I'm testing Ubuntu 10.x beta with Gnu GUI shell (this may be my problem, but I'm not sure...and I can revert to 9.x if needed) and attempting to find a way to run my mainstream applications (since retiring from the computer industry, I've become a freelance photographer) like ACDSee and Corel PaintShop Photo Pro under Wine. > > I have Wine installed and it runs Notepad just fine. ?But when I try to run ACDSee, I get the wait icon for maybe 14 seconds and then it goes away without any error message or indication of failure and ACDSee doesn't even attempt to start. > > Again, I'm relatively new to Wine (and although I've run a web server on linux for many years, I. far from being an expert. ?I can fumble through doing whatever is required to keep the server running, but that's about it. > > So I'd appreciate any insight into this problem...like if there's a log that can tell me why the program didn't start or something I need to do in addition to setting the executable bit (which I've done.) > > Thanks, > > Ray the Rat > >Hi Ray. I install Kubuntu for local users, and one common "mistake" is to try to use Windows software on Linux when there are suitable replacements on Linux. This may or may not be your case, let's see. What features of ACDSee are you using? If I know more about your workflow, I may be able to recommend a native Linux alternative such as F-Spot, Eye of Gnome, Digikam, or something else. -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com