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That worked!
Painful way to install anything though. Also can I just point out this: Code:
$ du -hs .adewine/ 2.0G .adewine/ |
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@latepaul. First of all congratulations. But I agree. Must be one of the most painful ways to install ever. And the size is absolutely ridiculous. Unfortunately, there is little alternative for those of us who run Linux and want to use this ridiculous system. I can't recall reading a single book using ADE. I'm not a fan ot the program.
I'll still have a look at installation on Ubuntu based systems when I get the chance. I would like to see this working easily for everyone. One thing your experience shows is that it seems technically not only feasible but easy to simply distribute a working .adewine prefix directory with ADE installed but not authorised. In theory this should work on any distro with a suitable version of wine. Unfortunately, I suspect this would violate all sorts of licence agreements. Though perhaps it would be okay to help someone having particular trouble by creating such a wineprefix directory for them at their request and as their "agent". Of course, it would need to actually be created anew on their behalf rather than simply distributing a pre-prepared one. Not a feasible mass solution, but possibly okay for someone having real trouble. Another possible solution is to use a live cd of a distribution known to work to produce the working wineprefix. A lot of work to achieve a simple result. |
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A livecd or VM would probably be simplest.
I must admit one of the reasons I started down the container path was that if it had worked it should have ended up being not only reliable but simple to repeat (the process itself might be complex but the steps could be reduced to something easy). Anyway, FWIW - here's a set of steps based on what I did: Spoiler:
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Wow... 2GB? I count myself lucky then. Mine is only 1.5, including the wine binaries themselves. (I'm on FreeBSD.)
Still, the disk space, time & trouble are all well worth it to me. I've read so many library books over the past few years using this setup... (I almost never read in ADE, but transferring library books to my H2O is awesome.) |
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As a matter of curiosity, did you follow the howto to install on FreeBSD? |
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Mine's 2.1G (but I also added Python 2.7).
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To be fair my default WINEPREFIX is 1.5Gb. That has ADE 1.7.2 and K4PC in it.
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I've not tested it yet (currently my Kobos are not Adobe-authorised) - but are you saying that ADE 2.0.1 recognises ereaders when they are attached?
I stopped using the 3M library software partly due to lack of selection, but also because it was a pain to transfer files (and you couldn't download them indirectly as I recall). You could do it but the software was temperamental about whether it saw the USB devices. I kept having to go into winecfg. |
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This is good for reading ADE library books on your device. For purchases of course I would recommend Apprentice Alf if you can legally remove the DRM. Last edited by darryl; 02-25-2017 at 03:28 AM. |
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Thanks for the reply Darryl.
In the meantime I tested it myself. I also installed CloudLibrary (what was 3M). They both work with my Kobo devices so long as they are configured as a floppy. This was what I recalled doing with the old 3M software but also that on occasion it would decide the device wasn't connected and I'd have to remove and re-add the drive (and possibly restart 3M). It seems more reliable now. That could just be a later version of wine. Also CloudLibrary no longer supports devices directly. If you go on their website they only talk about PCs, Macs and Android or Apple devices, not ereaders. But it uses Adobe DRM so if you use the same Adobe ID as with ADE then you can copy the files into that, or any device that uses the same ID. |
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I know this is old, but ADE 2.0.1 is still the best option for those of us connecting to Overdrive.
Just did a clean install of Ubuntu 18.04 and installed wine from the repos (wine 3.0). This can work as documented in the wiki, but with a minor change needed on my part 1. Clean 32-bit prefix (~/.adewine) 2. install windowscodecs & corefonts Code:
winetricks -q windowscodecs && winetricks -q corefonts They are located in the winetricks cache: Code:
~/.cache/winetricks/wic_x86_enu.exe 3. Don't use the small package installer for dotnet 3.5. Instead, use the full package installer: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down....aspx?id=25150 When running the installer, disconnect from the internet (this stops the installer from trying to get lang packs I think, which was hanging previously and causing the install to fail). Now proceed as usual and install ADE 2.0.1... ![]() |
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@patdavid. Thanks for posting your experience. I am happy to see that someone has finally reported success in Ubuntu. As you probably read earlier in the thread a year or so ago there were problems with installing on Ubuntu and its derivatives. I was going to install in a VM and have a look at the problem but never did.
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I should also mention, following what I did I find the prefix ~/.adewine is only about 697MB total. I'm going to re-test everything in a new prefix then probably write up a post on my site detailing what happened (I already added these notes to the appdb.winehq entry for ADE 2.0.1). Thank y'all for all the great work that helped me so much! |
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Hey Pat,
I'm one of the maintainers of ADE 2.0.1 on the AppDB. Thanks for this; your test results are queued right now and I'm looking into how to get them as the current results. (Right now, the current results are my results on FreeBSD 11 from a year ago.) I'm very interested in trying your .NET solution on FreeBSD, as it's currently borked in wine on that platform. |
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