Yeah!!!!

I run Ubuntu (Feisty). This morning I successfully installed DVD Profiler 3.1 and imported a backup of my database.

On Feisty I had already used Automatix to install Wine and it looks like gecko was installed as part of that process. So all I needed to do was download Tahoma.ttf to the correct location and use 'wine regedit' to install it. However regedit steadfastly refused to allow me to add a new StringValue. New Keys were OK but not new StringValues so I'm not sure whether it was a security problem (I did try running wine under sudo but still no difference). Anyway I was able to edit existing keys so I choose a font with an arabic sounding name (which I almost certainly will never need), renamed it to Tahoma and edited it to point ot Tahoma.ttf and all is working.

Thanks for the help here.

When I upgraded wine from 0.9.45 to 0.9.46 on my Macbook Pro, DVDProfiler stopped working (lots of floating point errors that I couldn't dismiss).
When I upgraded wine to 0.9.47, it went back to working for me.

Just another data point ...

Wine 0.9.51 has just been released yesterday.

After upgrading wine (just to 0.9.46 for now as that is the latest in the standard/supported ubuntu repository) 3.1.1 is working. The only issue I'm having so far is the html window editor is really buggy.

Hey Stuart

Thank you for an excellent little tut. on getting Profiler to work on Linux!

It runs quite well in PCLinuxOS (PCLOS)

Currently running wine 0.9.5.0
Could not edit profiles until I added riched20 to the DLL overrides in wine configurator.

My only complaint about Profiler under Linux is the inability to view contribution notes from the view contributors window. But I suspect that has something to do with Profiler looking for MS Internet Explorer (This also happened in XP when I uninstalled IE as I was using Firefox. I have tried to install IE under wine but so far no luck.

I would be interested in which Distros ppl have managed to get Profiler to work in.

Keep up the good work.

Peter

Has anybody had any trouble with  v3.1.1 Build 1171 ?

I found this thread and couldn't wait to give it a try.

The install seemed to go amazingly smoothly  thanks to DariusKyrak's fantastic instructions. However, when I launch DVDProfiler it freezes at the splash screen when half the DVDProfiler Eye graphic is in colour (see screenshot)



Fedora 2.6.23.12-52.fc7
Wine 0.9.52

It's almost certainly a Gecko issue. If you don't install Gecko, the program can stop loading at exactly the point your image shows. First, check what happens when you run "Wine iexplore http://www.Winehq.org". If Gecko's installed correctly, it should open a page to winehq.org. If not, it will probably try to install Gecko.

Failing that, see if you can move the splash screen to see if there is an error message underneath it. I don't know how you do this is Gnome, but in KDE holding down the Ctrl key allows you to move it, or choosing the 'move' option by right clicking on the program in the control panel.

See where that gets you.

Stuart

Thought I'd let everyone know I made the first post in this thread into a Wiki entry. If there are future updates to it I'll try to remember to modify the Wiki entry, but other should feel free to do so if I miss it.

KM