We had installed Wine - software that will run Windows applications and wanted to give it a spin. Since we had to do a comparison of the GIMP with Photoshop we decided to see if we could install Photoshop using wine.
We looked at the instructions on:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wine
which basically said to use the terminal to run the install program. So let's give it a go. We decide to do the test on an old version of Photoshop - the 'lite' one they no longer sell. We copy the installer and its associated files to a new folder and open a terminal session to the shell and issue the command:
sudo wine setup.exe
Cool, the photoshop installer splash screen comes up and the installer starts. The installer will place the applicaton ins c:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop 5, we prefer to put in in c:\bin but what the heck. Lets do a custom install tho so we can see what it would install. Ok we don't need icc profiles or Adobe online or some of the other crap. First problem - trying to select a component has locked up the installer. The cpu graph is stuck at about 50% usage. We run the system monitor but find no wine process to kill. So we log out and log back in. This time we select compact and it all seems to go well. We even get to enter the lengthy serial number - one task i certainly do not miss!
But then the install aborts when it tried to decompress the files. We abort the process. Must be some old windows software around here. We look in the boxes of CD's...and how about visio 2000?
We enter the terminal and cd /media/cdrom0 and sudo wine setup.exe and it says it has to install IE 5.0 - no thanks. We cancel. How about an editor? That should not require any weird software - so we try hotmetal pro 6. Hilarious - it wants you to install IE, at least it is an option at the end of the install, so maybe there is a way to cancel out of it so we choose the minimum install. It's now search for Data Access Components....ok no joy here either.
We try a couple of other programs without success. We probably should have consulted the Wine application database at:
http://appdb.winehq.org/
Of course there is really no windows program that we need to run. Actually, not true - i still run an old turn based strategy game called Fields of Battle. Let's copy it over from the games machine. Ooops - not there. It's backed up somewhere. Maybe we could try Axis and Allies which did not work anymore on XP. Not unexpected it crashes but then Hasbro software is notoriously buggy. Ah we find the fields of battle cd and a Visual Basic 4 cd and Visio on 12 floppies and Office 95 on lots and lots of floppies and a program called Smsketch which i recall using.
We try fob but get a memory error and a registry dump. We try VB 4 and get a major opcode failed request. Same with smsketch. Time to try virtualbox again this time using XP and then to run fields of battle tomorrow.
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