Successful Adobe Digital Editions 4.0 setup MX 17.1/WINE

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Successful Adobe Digital Editions 4.0 setup MX 17.1/WINE

#1 Post by alexjack »

Hi all,
after trying various options over the last few days and running into issues that are beyond my skills to resolve, I have a working setup of ADE 4.0 running under WINE. If you're interested, here is what worked for me.

This is from a start point of no WINE installed at all.

1) in a terminal (normal user):
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

2) in a terminal (normal user):
sudo apt-get install wine32

3) download the latest version of winetricks
Note: this is a single file (BASH script). In my case, from the file opened in featherpad: WINETRICKS_VERSION=20180815

4) Put winetricks into /usr/local/bin and make it executable:
sudo cp /"yourpath"/winetricks /usr/local/bin && sudo chown "user" /usr/local/bin/winetricks && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/winetricks

5) install "wine" from backports in the MX graphical package installer
(wine-3.0.1 (Debian 3.0.1-2~bpo9+1))

6) make a new 32 bit wineprefix
in a terminal (normal user):
WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine wine wineboot

In this case, the new prefix will be called .wine. I didn't have anything else installed under WINE, so that is my only prefix.
NOTE: You can make a new prefix under a different name and run the subsequent steps for that new prefix if you want to.

7) in a terminal (normal user) run:
winetricks

8) browse to and install ADE 4.5 (OK all of the warnings and info boxes that pop up. It will install DOTNET 4 then show an error when it comes to install ADE 4.5 "ADE is already running"). This is OK (you just want DOTNET 4).

NOTE: the "ADE is already running" problem seems to be a known issue that is reported on WINE HQ. I couldn't find a solution (or one that I understood).

NOTE: it is probably just OK to install DOTNET 4.0 directly, but I didn't try this in the end.

At this stage in a terminal (normal user) run:
wine uninstaller

You should see only Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Client Profile, and Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Extended.

Close wine uninstaller.

9) Run:
winecfg

change the windows version to Windows 7. Apply and close.

10) download ADE 4.0 from:
https://helpx.adobe.com/content/dam/hel ... taller.zip

Unzip it and put it somewhere.

NOTE: the installation of ADE 1.7 from winetricks works, but it is too old to open xxx.acsm files. Installation of ADE 4.5 from winetricks gives an error and does not complete. Installation of ADE 2.0, 3.0, 4.58 also causes various errors that I couldn't sort out.

11) install ADE 4.0:
wine /"yourpath"/ADE_4.0_Installer.exe

12) run ADE
run ADE with the terminal command:
wine start 'C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Digital Editions 4.0\digitaleditions.exe'

You should be able to use your Adobe login to authorise the computer

13) Optional: set up your eReader with a WINE drive letter so that ADE can access it

Plug your ereader into your computer. It should automount. Copy the path to the device (not including the following /)

Run: winecfg

Click on the Drives tab

Click on the Add... button

Add a drive letter for your eReader (I used drive D)

Click on D

Enter the path to your eReader that you copied

Click the Show Advanced button

Set the type to floppy disk

Accept the Wine configuration settings and OK. Close winecfg

Opening ADE now, with your eReader connected, it should appear on the left side pane. I was able to transfer a DRM ebook.
Last edited by alexjack on Thu Jan 24, 2019 7:44 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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Pierre
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Re: Successful Adobe Digital Editions 4.0 setup MX 17.1/WINE

#2 Post by Pierre »

that's great news - - that Adobe Software usually won't install at all.
9_9

it's a good reference for the rest of us.

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Re: Successful Adobe Digital Editions 4.0 setup MX 17.1/WINE

#3 Post by Jerry3904 »

Well done, and thanks for posting the details!

I'm going to move this thread into Tips and Tricks to make it easier to find in the future.
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