This HOW-TO covers up the whole process of installing Adobe Photoshop CS2 on a Ubuntu box in a few simple steps. This method has been tested only on Ubuntu, but it should work on any other linux flavor. Any questions or feedback leave them in the comments.
UPDATE: Fixed some small inaccuracies in this HOW-TO. Thanks for your comments!
- What you need?
- A fresh install of Ubuntu Dapper + all the updates
- A Windows box with a fully installed and activated version of Adobe Photoshop CS2
- Fire up a terminal session and type the next commands;
TIP: Instead of using apt-get, you can install them with the Synaptic Package Manager located in the System/Administration menu
- $ sudo apt-get update
- $ sudo apt-get install wine and then type “yes”
- $ sudo wine /*To create the wine file structure*/
- $ sudo apt-get install recode and then type “yes”
- Then you need to copy all the necessary files from the Windows box;
- Copy the whole Adobe folder from “c:\Program Files\” to “/home/YOURNAME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/”
- Now you need to export the registry keys of the Adone Photoshop CS2;
- In your Windows box, type “regedit” in the command-line and export the whole “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Adobe/” to “adobe.reg”.
- The next step is to copy that file to your Ubuntu box and convert it to the encoding of YOUR system. For example, if your Ubuntu box has as default charset ascii and your Windows box has ucs-2 then “$ recode ucs-2..ascii adobe.reg” would do the trick. After you converted your adobe.reg file, type “$ sudo wine regedit adobe.reg” to import it to wine.
- That’s it! Type “$ sudo wine –winver winxp “[path to Photoshop]/photoshop.exe” or create a launcher and enjoy Adobe Photoshop CS2 on Ubuntu
If you are having a problem regarding “unregistered” versions, you will need to crack your photoshop.exe file.
256 responses so far ↓
1 jOELTRON // Oct 11, 2006 at 3:29 am
I did exactly as described, however on an x86_64 running gentoo64bit and with the reg import I still get ‘Your user name, organization or serial number is missing or invalid’.
2 myspace layout // Oct 11, 2006 at 9:04 am
have to try to find out if it is working ….
3 plagiats // Oct 11, 2006 at 9:13 am
As I said on Digg :
It lacks the “sudo” command for apt’s.
$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install wine
should be read
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install wine
or
# apt-get update
# apt-get install wine
Moreover, if you want to avoid the dark gray look, I suggest you read:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=55286
Note that similar method works for Macromedia’s products. But hey, Gimp and Inkscape are good enought for me.
4 meneame.net // Oct 11, 2006 at 9:21 am
how-to: Photoshop CS2 en Ubuntu…
[Ingl?s] Como instalar un Adobe Photoshop CS2 en Ubuntu en un par de simples pasos. Este proceso solo ha sido probado en Ubuntu pero podr?a funcionar en casi cualquier distribuci?n GNU/Linux. Via: digg.com……
5 plagiats // Oct 11, 2006 at 9:25 am
step 2 and 4 could be merged into
sudo apt-get install wine recode
( PS: Your system to keep track of user (”Welcome back plagiats”) forces user to “change” his comment to fill the spam protection field again. So this is a quite disturbing and pointless feature. )
6 diplo // Oct 11, 2006 at 9:31 am
When it type
recode ucs-2..ascii adobe.reg
i get the following error:
(translated) Entry not tranlatable in ISO-10646-UCS-2..ANSI_X3.4-1968
7 tr5 // Oct 11, 2006 at 9:44 am
Maybe there is something that you whould take from the windows partition to the linux one, maybe it?s some reg keys…
8 dan diemer // Oct 11, 2006 at 9:48 am
are you kidding me? i mucked around the wine and crossoveroffice sites for days to find stupid instructions like “copy it off your windows partition, and it might work” and it was this easy? good work guys, when i was using ubuntu this would’ve been really handy. many others will appreciate your effort.
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10 Retesting guides // Oct 11, 2006 at 10:14 am
Its working perfect on my x86_64 running gentoo64bit
you sux on follow instructions
11 Jacques // Oct 11, 2006 at 10:18 am
i can’t seem to do the recode. i get the following:”recode: Anfrage `ucs-2.ascii’ ist fehlerhaft”
yes, it’s german. does that have something to do with it? it’s just saying that the statement contains an error.
12 Matt // Oct 11, 2006 at 10:19 am
Cool. I’ve been looking for a replacement to the GIMP for a while and this might just be the answer. Hopefully I can get it working - pretty new to Ubuntu and it normally takes me days to figure stuff like this out.
13 dady // Oct 11, 2006 at 10:26 am
Perfect! Here I go!
Thanks a lot guys!
Btw: I try this for other Win Apps and it works as well!
dady from germany
14 Keith // Oct 11, 2006 at 10:38 am
He might be missing some crucial step in registry tweaking. It’s not so easy to just simply copy Adobe Photoshop CS2 into Linux in just 10 steps. I beg to differ.
15 Dave // Oct 11, 2006 at 10:52 am
I’d be interested to know if there are any bugs or glitches when actually running it?
16 vbrtrmn // Oct 11, 2006 at 11:03 am
They didn’t list the method to crack Adobe CS2, which you’ll have to figure out for yourself. Note the “IMPORTANT: Here at PublicidadPixelada we have an original licence of the Adobe Photoshop CS2, but in order to use it under Linux sometimes the original *.exe has to be cracked or patched. WE ARE NOT ENCOURAGING PIRACY! In fact, we encourage you too buy this awesome product, support the developers and take full advantage of an original licence. We are just presenting a method for those who have an original licence to use it under a different platform.” from the article.
17 starsky51 // Oct 11, 2006 at 11:32 am
@jOELTRON
What you need?
* A fresh install of Ubuntu Dapper + all the updates
* A Windows box with a fully installed and activated version of Adobe Photoshop CS2
dumbass
18 depi // Oct 11, 2006 at 11:39 am
Hi,
can I ask you how well it works? Have you noticed any crash of it or is it slower then PS7 under Linux?
Thanks for reply
19 Tim // Oct 11, 2006 at 11:52 am
Now would this work with the rest of creative suite for ubuntu? Because I really miss my ilistrator.
20 bob // Oct 11, 2006 at 12:18 pm
The title -
HOW-TO: Adobe Photoshop CS2 on Ubuntu - 10
steps!
The How To -
7. That?s it!
7 != 10
21 Sarah // Oct 11, 2006 at 12:21 pm
Is there a way of doing this with the OS X version of Photoshop?
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23 craig // Oct 11, 2006 at 1:10 pm
I don’t have a legit copy of cs2 so I won’t try this on my Ubuntu box but…
Do you think this method would help the install of sketchup on linux?
The last time I looked the sketchup tool bar was messed up with a standard wine install.
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26 Rui Moura // Oct 11, 2006 at 3:40 pm
Ie tried this, but gives me an error while doing the recode thing -
recode: adobe.reg falhou: Entrada imposs?vel de traduzir na sequ?ncia `ISO-10646-UCS-2..ANSI_X3.4-1968′
Ps: it’s in portuguese, it means something like - recode: adobe.reg missed: impossible to translate in the sequence `ISO-10646-UCS-2..ANSI_X3.4-1968′
Help …
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28 Rick Fenster // Oct 11, 2006 at 7:04 pm
I tried it, but wine won’t take the winver option. I’m using 0.9.2.
Anybody else noticing that?
29 Rick Fenster // Oct 11, 2006 at 7:36 pm
So I got it to run but I also got the same error saying that my info is not there which is odd because I have a valid install on Windows that works 100%
30 Rui Moura // Oct 11, 2006 at 7:55 pm
Why no one answers to the recode problem that a lot of people is having ?
31 Rick Fenster // Oct 11, 2006 at 7:56 pm
Update: I could use an edit button nicely, but my problem is that I get some error that I don’t have privileges. The whole drive_c folder is RW. Does anybody have such an issue?
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33 Lewis Thompson // Oct 11, 2006 at 8:42 pm
As for the recode… I found somebody suggesting that using:
recode ucs-2-internal adobe.reg
instead of ucs-2..ascii. This doesn’t make a lot of sense to me as internal is probably not ASCII, which must be required by regedit for some reason.
It doesn’t complain, but I receive a “Bad DLL” error when I start photoshop.exe — not sure if this is related.
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35 Lewis Thompson // Oct 11, 2006 at 9:07 pm
A quick update: I tried loading an unmodified .reg file and this did not show up, while the ucs-2-internal recode modified version did. This still doesn’t confirm that the loaded reg file is not corrupt.
36 Jimmy // Oct 11, 2006 at 10:03 pm
Alright, I got the files copied, and turned them into ACII, I did this by opening the .reg file in gedit, opening it with the Unicode US-2 charactor coding. I ran it in wine, putting the -winver winxp AFTER Photoshop.exe, so it looked like “wine Photoshop.exe -winver winxp”, Photoshop pops up sort of, but than freezes, in the terminal I get the following, over and over again. Please help, email me at computergee@gmail.com if you can help me, thanks!
err:shell:HCR_GetFolderAttributes HCR_GetFolderAttributes should be called for simple PIDL’s only!
err:shell:HCR_GetFolderAttributes HCR_GetFolderAttributes should be called for simple PIDL’s only!
err:shell:HCR_GetFolderAttributes HCR_GetFolderAttributes should be called for simple PIDL’s only!
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40 Paul // Oct 12, 2006 at 1:45 am
I’m having the same problem as everyone else - the recode doesn’t work. I opened the registry file w/ Gedit like the guy above me mentioned, and imported the .reg file, but that gave me the same output he described above.
Then after Photoshop FINALLY loaded, it told me the version i have is unregistered and the application exited. I’m thinking the registry key import didn’t work properly.
What is the missing step you’re leaving out, because as it stands this method DOES NOT WORK.
41 josh // Oct 12, 2006 at 2:19 am
I am also having the recode problem…
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43 Todd // Oct 12, 2006 at 4:26 am
For the recode problem, just “wine notepad adobe.reg” and then re-save it in a text only ANSI format (no unicode)
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48 chris // Oct 12, 2006 at 8:39 am
I am also receiving the “?Your user name, organization or serial number is missing or invalid” error. I have a fully working and activated copy of cs2 on my windows partition.
I assume this is where the cracked version should come in?
Any help would be appreciated.
49 chris // Oct 12, 2006 at 8:40 am
Oh, PS… For the people having problems with recode, do the following:
recode ucs-2-internal adobe.reg
Do that instead of the ..ascii thing. Worked for me.
50 Rob // Oct 12, 2006 at 9:39 am
Same recode problem here.
51 ozjimbob // Oct 12, 2006 at 9:42 am
There’s an easier way, if you don’t mind digging in the darker corners of the internet (and if you already own a Photoshop licence *wink wink nudge nudge*). Load up your favourite Bittorrent search engine and search for “Portable Photoshop”. This is a version of photoshop that’s been hacked to run from a USB key. Usefully, this means all the registry entries are packaged appropriately for portable access. The .exe for this installation runs nicely under Wine with no further registry hacking necessary.
52 Hussam // Oct 12, 2006 at 10:04 am
How can you call that running Photoshop on Ubuntu if you are going to need a windows machine or wine. Seriously, if you need windows software, use windows. There is no shame in using windows ( well…, you get the idea )
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54 Istvan // Oct 12, 2006 at 10:55 am
It doesn’t work how you described it. Having the same issue with recoding and importing registry settings. After a long while, it finally tells me I don’t have a license and exits.
I tried importing the registry without recoding, but then Photoshop just hangs.
55 streamcast // Oct 12, 2006 at 11:35 am
I just wish that there would be a “real” linux (ubuntu) version of photoshop.
56 Russ // Oct 12, 2006 at 12:35 pm
Yup, same problem as everyone else, I’ve got Photoshop CS2 loaded but get the “unregistered” error - which it *is* on my Windows partition.
Any ideas?
57 Knapper // Oct 12, 2006 at 3:30 pm
I think maybe this reg key is required for the license info. Though, I haven’t tried it myself.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Uninstall\{236BB7C4-4419-42FD-0409-1E257A25E34D}]
“EPIC_ORG”=”(your company or organisation you registered under)”
“EPIC_SERIAL”=”(your serial registration number without dashes)”
“EPIC_NAME”=”(the name you registered under)”
58 Rob // Oct 12, 2006 at 5:17 pm
Seems to work except the activation code does not work and PS stops once loaded.
I guess this is where you need a crack instead of a keygen. However, there usual suspects ( astalavista ) does seem to have a crack so I guess most people use a keygen or buy the thing?
If I find a crack will post…
Robi
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63 xzof // Oct 16, 2006 at 4:20 pm
I’m a debian user and I can tell you that photoshop will never work as faster on linux as on XP. Wine is a Win32 emulator, still in beta version and all windows softawres won’t be able to work as faster on a emulator as on XP core.
Moreover, if you use a pen tablet (like Wacom), it’ll be much more difficult for newbies to install and configure it.
64 bubbafrye // Oct 16, 2006 at 7:34 pm
WINE is not an emulator…. it stands for
[W]ine [I]s [N]ot an [E]mulator
just to be specific… though it is quite possible Photoshop wil not run as smooth as on XP.
I poersonally want PS on Linux because
a) i don’t want ot deal with my windows OS any more, adn I like ny Linux expierience so far..
b) while i understand that the Gimp is cool (and free, and is built for Linux) and that I could buy Gimpshop and get ‘kinda’ close to the PS experience… practically, I am a daily PS user, and it is a regular part of my workflow.. spending a few hours to cram it into my linux setup is better for my productivity than learning how to get by with an alternative.
my two cents…
oh, and i have tried the recode as:
recode ucs-2-internal adobe.reg
error:Invalid input in step `UCS-2-INTERNAL..CHAR’
&
recode ucs-2..ascii adobe.reg
error: Untranslatable input in step `ISO-10646-UCS-2..ANSI_X3.4-1968′
with no luck
and when i try running the app, i get the sam eissue as Jimmy in post
28
bummer
hmm… back to Windows for a bit…
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67 Cobra0289 // Oct 17, 2006 at 11:21 pm
Hi Folks I got the same errors as above with recode. I ran regedit without recode. ran regedit again without the filename and saw that the information was imported correctly. It was.
Then I opened my home directory with the file browser and navigated to the photoshop.exe file. right clicked and chose to run with “wine.” it fired right up, no initial graphics, but photoshop opened. I retouched a photo. saved it, reopened it under windows, and all was OK.
Why would you need to run any of the final commands with sudo?
68 Viktor // Oct 18, 2006 at 1:35 pm
for all, who have trouble with wine. I have tried succsessfull crossOver Office on Ubuntu Dapper and Photoshop. Look here http://mizine.de/?p=105
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71 quixote // Oct 19, 2006 at 4:39 am
I’m not sure the recode part is necessary, at least for XP. As far as I can tell from looking it up, Win XP uses UTF-8 as the default encode, and so does Ubuntu Dapper. I skipped the recode step, and that didn’t seem to bother it. (Or maybe it did, because I am having problems. see below….)
I did have to change owner from root to the ordinary user, though, which is an important step that you may want to add in to the steps above.
The command is: sudo chown -R [USER] /home/[USER]/.wine
the “-R” means it recursively changes the owner through all the subdirs.
The problem I’m having is that wine can’t seem to find any of the directories. It says \\windows\system32\winver.exe doesn’t exist, when a check of /home/USER/.wine/drive_c/windows/ shows that winver.exe is right there. Likewise, when I try to start photoshop, using the whole path/Photoshop.exe, it starts up (because I entered that particular dir into the $PATH), but then it says it can’t find plugins, fonts, and so on, and then ultimately refuses to load because it doesn’t have all its bits and pieces. They’re right there in subdirs, but I sure as hell don’t want to enter every single one of the directories separately into my PATH variable.
Maybe my, and some other people’s, problems here are because we don’t know how to add all of a branch to our PATH, with specifying each individual subdir. Anyone who can help?
72 phillip // Oct 19, 2006 at 4:36 pm
I have the same problem as Jimmy in post 28:
“err:shell:HCR_GetFolderAttributes HCR_GetFolderAttributes should be called for simple PIDL’s only!”
photoshop is able to launch, but it hangs up trying to load plugins and such. after about 10 mins, it finishes loading but gives me this error.
“A required application library failed to load and the product cannot continue. Please reinstall the application.”
any suggestions?
thanks
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74 quixote // Oct 20, 2006 at 10:59 pm
Philip: that’s the same problem I’m having, and several others in comments are reporting. For some reason, all those directories are not on the PATH, hence not being found, hence crucial bits not being loaded.
Solutions???
75 MJR // Oct 21, 2006 at 3:27 pm
I have the same problem…
“mjr@mjr-desktop:~/.wine/c/Program Files/Adobe Photoshop CS2$ sudo wine ?winver winxp Photoshop.exe
Password:
wine: could not load L”c:\\windows\\system32\\\2013winver.exe”: Module not found”
winver.exe is in there.. i dont know why its happening =/
someone???
76 qrm // Oct 22, 2006 at 1:08 am
Hi!
I just tried this method with illustrator cs2 and it hangs while loading plugins. id guess wine needs a lil bit work to get it running
77 smith // Oct 22, 2006 at 3:42 pm
Hello,
In this article, i’m not sure what’s the meaning to ‘windows box’.
Do you means microsoft windows? I do not have, and my machine only have ubuntu installed.
I had do the step 1,2,3,4, while for the step 5,
i just copying the photoshop directory from a CD, and paste into ?/home/YOURNAME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/?
(the photoshop cs is a CD installation, when i use it in windows)
For step 6, i do not know what to do. I only have ubuntu, do not have mictosoft windows install.
Is this the correct article for me?
78 Issac // Oct 22, 2006 at 4:18 pm
:quote Bubbafrye:
recode ucs-2..ascii adobe.reg
error: Untranslatable input in step `ISO-10646-UCS-2..ANSI_X3.4-1968?
with no luck
:/quote:
I had this exact same problem. I was trying to copy the entire adobe registry file, which included different language files for acrobat. This evidentaly poses a problem. Make sure to copy the photoshop, uninstall, registration, repair, and Adobe type manager from the “Local_System/software/adobe” tree, and the whole “local_system/software/Adobe Systems” tree. This is how I got it to work.
It may also be possible to export the registry to a *win95* registry file (in the export window of the win box) and skip the recode, but that may not be true.
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80 qrm // Oct 24, 2006 at 9:46 am
well, if you try this method with illustrtor CS2 it needs couple of windows librarys. If you get them Illustrator starts to load but it hangs while loading plugins. And the -winversion doest work on my rig either
81 quixote // Oct 25, 2006 at 2:12 am
@smith:
yes, “windows box” means computer running windows. You need to have Photoshop running on a Windows machine in order to get the registry file that you export and then put somewhere. If you have no access to a Windows machine, I don’t think you’ll be able to run Photoshop under Wine on your Ubuntu machine. But I don’t know that for a fact. I’m just guessing.
WHERE, by the way, are we supposed to put that exported registry file? In the top-level .wine directory? In the Photoshop subdirectory of .wine? Somewhere else?
Also, how about an answer to the $PATH question, since it’s hanging up so many of the readers of this otherwise interesting post?
82 radioman // Oct 25, 2006 at 8:28 pm
I just install it: http://www.rdman.vhost.lt/tmp/temp/install-crossover-pro-5.0.0.sh
And it work!:
http://www.rdman.vhost.lt/tmp/temp/pics/linux/Screenshot-3.png
http://www.rdman.vhost.lt/tmp/temp/pics/linux/Screenshot-2.png
83 beerfan // Oct 27, 2006 at 7:20 pm
The recode package isn’t strictly necessary. Gedit understands many different encodings but you need to add ‘ucs-2′ to the list when it complains that the encoding type isn’t detected.
84 jOELTRON // Oct 28, 2006 at 10:37 am
@starsky51
You are obviously the idiot who knows very little about anything and feels that he must output his frustrations onto putting down others.
I am well aware of the howto title and it’s suggested running system, however not everybody runs the same distro.
Wine being a cross platform (yes, you can also run it in windows) is not distro specific and with very little customization, this howto *should* work the same between distributions - however I was having an issue with the registry import and requested help, that was all.
Didn’t your mother ever say ‘if you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything’.
Thanks to all that actually are helping out others in the linux community, its a shame that the few out there make us look like twits to the rest of the world.
85 Yosefa // Oct 29, 2006 at 11:24 am
Hi
Great HowTo - Thank!
I solved the recode problem for me by using utf-16 and utf-8 instead, like so:
recode utf16..utf8 adobe.reg
But when i run wine with the “winver” option (”wine -winever winxp…”) i get:
wine: could not load L”c:\\windows\\system32\\-winever.exe”: Module not found
like some other people got here.
When i drop this option and simply run:
wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Adobe/Adobe\ Photoshop\ CS2/Photoshop.exe
the program starts and hangs and i see this:
err:shell:HCR_GetFolderAttributes HCR_GetFolderAttributes should be called for simple PIDL’s only!
repeated on my terminal.
ideas anyone?
86 jake // Oct 30, 2006 at 9:13 am
I managed to get it working using the $recode uc-2-internal adobe.reg which then I followed the rest of the steps removing -winver winxp from the actual command and it started and worked properly.
It takes ages for PS to load, there are a few errors that pop up every now and then, currently downloading the crossover.sh file to run that and see what happens. Over all it wasn’t that great from the get-go as far as functionality is concerned. for some reason I couldn’t add text to the image I was creating soo.. If anyone else has this problem please let us know or if there is a way to solve this, it would be much appreciated.
it’s a far cry from PS and how it should work, but I’m sure there are work arounds.
Good job what you’ve managed to do.
87 Giulio // Oct 30, 2006 at 8:28 pm
It doesn’t work on Edgy and latest compiled Wine.
88 NFO » Blog Archive » Fedora Core // Oct 30, 2006 at 11:23 pm
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89 SubWolf // Oct 31, 2006 at 7:39 pm
Pretty close on Edgy actually, got to the point of Photoshop complaining it needs administrative privileges to run after appearing to completely fire up.
This is after:
- Specifying “ucs-2..utf-8″ for .reg file recode - this cures the recode errors for me, and my system uses utf-8 by default.
- Exporting the [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Uninstall\{236BB7C4-4419-42FD-0409-1E257A25E34D}] section from the Windows registry - this cures the invalid registration problem.
- Patience, scanning for plugins takes a few seconds longer than usual, with many of those PIDL errors, ignore them.
Going to continue fiddling.
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91 Maxim // Nov 1, 2006 at 5:24 pm
I have ran Photoshop , but in process of initalizing it not write on the right of logo user name company and serial number.
When Photoshop start it throw window with caption: ~” Your user name , company , serial number is missing or invalid.Program will be exit”
I did export ALL of windows regisry in wine, but Prhotoshop not start.
can anyone help me?
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93 Daniel // Nov 4, 2006 at 9:58 pm
For the Photoshop-crashes because of “Hard or Softwareerror”
I was able to run PS once (via the copy from winbox-method) but on the second launch it crashed.
I found, that it created some cfg’s under the folder c:\windows\profile\[name]\Application Data\Adobe\Photoshop\9.0\Adobe Photoshop CS2 Settings\…
If you delete this folder (especially Adobe Photoshop CS2 Prefs.psp) PS works again… seems, that it stores ther some wrong values…
The disadvantage is, you can change no settings - it will always run with defaults… But i can live with that.
(thx for the HowTo, btw)
Daniel
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95 Adobe Photoshop Crack // Nov 8, 2006 at 2:23 pm
Dave…
Interesting topic… I’m working in this industry myself and I don’t agree about this in 100%, but I added your page to my bookmarks and hope to see more interesting articles in the future…
96 me // Nov 11, 2006 at 4:45 am
Im on gentoo x86 with 1GB of ram and i get a error out of memory??
you can see it here: http://img150.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotaj1.png
Does anyone knows how to fix this?
Thanks
97 Adobe Photoshop Software // Nov 17, 2006 at 2:21 am
Dave…
Interesting topic… I’m working in this industry myself and I don’t agree about this in 100%, but I added your page to my bookmarks and hope to see more interesting articles in the future…
98 shabeer // Nov 19, 2006 at 9:08 am
Can Adobe acrobat professional 7.0 be ported this way to
ubuntu using wine?
Can somebody hack this?
Thanks
99 Cyber Hippie // Nov 20, 2006 at 8:15 am
well it kind of works but i cant use text, its slow etc. think we have to find another way around. just had an idea shoot me if im wrong (well please dont but do tell me if i am) isnt mac based on unix so wouldnt it be much easier to use photoshop for mac. well not on wine of course
100 Hairy // Nov 20, 2006 at 10:33 am
For anyone having the “Pleae run as an Admin” problem, the way to solve it is under windows run photoshop as a limited account, then copy
C:\Documents and Settings\yourusernamehere\ApplicationData\Adobe
to
.wine/c_drive/windows/profiles/yourusernamehere/ApplicationData/Adobe
101 oen // Nov 20, 2006 at 1:05 pm
thanks for the wonderful howto…
my experience: it runs… slow start, but it runs well. Pretty slow on using filters.
~~~
102 the jackol's den // Nov 21, 2006 at 5:27 pm
Photoshop CS2 on Ubuntu in 8 steps…
This HOW-TO covers up the whole process of installing Adobe Photoshop CS2 on a Ubuntu box in a few simple steps. This method has been tested only on Ubuntu, but it should work on any other linux flavor.
Link……
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104 jimr // Nov 23, 2006 at 12:04 am
Has anyone tried to print from within CS2?
105 Neorush // Nov 23, 2006 at 1:49 am
I had the same ?Your user name, organization or serial number is missing or invalid?. problem. On some support site I can’t find the link for it warned of having multiple versions of PS installed, which I still had CS installed along with CS2, I uninstalled both and reinstalled CS2 only.
I also did some file comparison’s to make sure everything copied properly, and despite two copies the file Adobe/Adobe Bridge/install.adb did not copy either time, this is an xml file that appears to have information about the username, password, and serial registry values, so this could have been the cause.
PS CS2 then started fine, after pausing for a very long time on “searching for plugins”. However on a restart I got a general “Hardware Software error photoshop will have to exit”, per the post above you can delete c:\windows\profile\[name]\Application Data\Adobe\Photoshop\9.0\Adobe Photoshop CS2 Settings\ and PS works again?
However now I get “Could not complete your request because of a program error” whenever trying to open any kind of a file, add text, and a slew of over things. I found this support article:
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/331627.html
which basically blames the problem on bad preferences.
Any one find a way around this / have the same problem?
106 Bryce // Nov 23, 2006 at 8:52 pm
Well I can’t really complain. It did install and run. However I can’t open any files, psd, jpeg, nothing…. oh well, i’ll tinker and see what i find out.
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108 Ian Patton // Nov 27, 2006 at 9:23 pm
I got this to work…. for the first use only.
Basically, once you run it one time and close it, then try to restart it, you will get an error saying that the username, organization, and serial number are missing and the program closes abruptly.
I then deleted my .wine directory and did “wine regedit adobe.txt” to rebuild the .wine directory and popped the Adobe folder back under Program Files. Again it starts up fine…
The text tool does not work at all thought and it is full of bugs.
If you need Photoshop running under Wine, revert to version 7. It runs great.
Also, for those of you who got stuck on the regedit export… I just chose to export it as *.txt instead of *.reg file and I did not have to use the recode thing.
109 mikey // Nov 28, 2006 at 1:16 pm
you know it was my first time on linux…i know it is much better than windows but i cant install my softwares to it…i cant understand if how i will do it…..
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111 Ian Patton // Dec 4, 2006 at 10:24 pm
BTW, I used very similar instructions to get Dreamweaver 8 working. I documented that process here: http://virtualdreamscapes.blogspot.com/
It works for Flash 8 as well.
Enjoy!
112 Jompa // Dec 6, 2006 at 9:17 am
I would like to add that there is a difference between sudo and gksudo. Maybe in this case gksudo is more appropriate when launching PS? When launching with sudo PS complains about priviliges and when launching with gksudo I get the serial# error. Hmm.. soooo close now!
Any ideas?
113 Dan Kegel // Dec 11, 2006 at 6:30 am
It’s not such a good idea to run Wine as root…
114 thomax // Dec 18, 2006 at 1:16 pm
Hey,
This is great, for some people I know photoshop was the one and only reason not to use linux, now that problem is solved.
Thanx
115 Alex // Dec 19, 2006 at 12:31 am
found this for when using edgy eft:
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=2631
more precisely copy the specified dlls and run as WINEDLLOVERRIDES=”shell32,shlwapi,rpcrt4,comdlg32,setupapi=n” wine Photoshop.exe
this really improves the startup time.
also must copy Application Data/Adobe folder as stated in previous post, as well as specifying ?ucs-2..utf-8? for .reg file recode, and exporting [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Uninstall\{236BB7C4-4419-42FD-0409-1E257A25E34D}] section from the Windows registry which cures the invalid registration problem.
116 shinda // Dec 28, 2006 at 10:37 pm
Anyone have any luck getting around the wine administrator privileges problem? I’ve copied all the files from the Adobe folder, common files and did both the registry updates, but am still getting stuck with this one.
117 Ben // Jan 3, 2007 at 7:35 pm
This is great, I’ll have to try it out photoshop is definitely one of the programs keeping me from using linux as my primary machine.
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119 ILUsion // Jan 9, 2007 at 11:09 pm
I actually have a slightly better way in doing this (which is mostly based on this one):
it is mostly the same except that it requires almost no extra space (if you dual boot), it keeps your plug-ins synchronized between your Windows Photoshop and Linux Photoshop and you will not need to download and muck about with recode.
Just follow all steps as described above, except for, don’t sudo apt-get install recode
Instead of copying the whole Adobe directory from your Windows partition to Linux, just make a mental note of the location when mounted in Linux (my Adobe folder is mounted on “/media/winsys/Program\ Files/Adobe” ). Open up a terminal and navigate to your Wine Program Files-dir as so:
cd ~/.wine/c_drive/Program\ Files
then enter the command
ln -s “/media/winsys/Program\ Files/Adobe” Adobe
Replace “/media/winsys/Program\ Files/Adobe” with the location on your system, but don’t forget to put in the quotes! (otherwise you will end up with some bad links, which you can delete with the unlink-command). This command makes a symbolic link to the Adobe directory on your Windows partition, so it doens’t require any extra drive space.
Then, the other problem encountered was with recode. This can be avoided easily. Just like above, go to your Windows box regedit, and export that hive, but in the Save File dialog box, choose ” Win9x/BT4 Registration Files”. This will automatically put the reg file in plain ANSI for you.
I hope some of you will get it to work this way. I’ve just tried it and it works on my Ubuntu Dapper Drake install (no problem with activation, Photoshop is only a bit slow (with 100% of CPU on a Core 2 Duo T7400) when booting up, but works quite fluently once booted up).
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121 Mick // Jan 27, 2007 at 5:12 am
Got it to work perfectly first try, but I had to use the “recode ucs-2-internal adobe.reg” to recode the registry file.
122 Hannes // Jan 30, 2007 at 6:26 pm
I think you should not use “sudo wine”, if you do, all Maleware will have also root-rights. Just work without sudo and your Box will be as save as it was.
123 Dan Zabarylo // Jan 31, 2007 at 4:02 pm
How do I determine what the default character set is in Ubuntu? Also, how do I determine what the default character set is in XP?
124 gcoles // Feb 6, 2007 at 8:37 am
I did get a cracked version of the Photoshop install working *based* on the above instructions, but I had to change a few things, and still ended up with on major error, that seemed to go away on its own.
From Kubuntu Edgy on my AMD Athlon-XP 2600 machine, I did the following:
- Install wine (sudo apt-get install wine)
- No need for recode on my system, so I didn’t worry about it
- Run winecfg once, as a regular (non-root) user, to generate the ~/.wine directory structure, then close it
- Copy Program Files/Adobe and export registry keys as noted in above Howto
- Import registry keys as noted (skipping recode step), EXCEPT DO NOT RUN AS ROOT USER (do not prefix the command with `sudo’)
- Run Adobe Photoshop like this:
wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Adobe/Adobe\ Photoshop\ CS2/Photoshop.exe -winver winxp
(Again DO NOT RUN AS ROOT)
Yes, there are a ton of “HCR_GetFolderAttributes” errors during the “Reading preferences…” and “Scanning for plug-ins…” sections of the startup dialog, which was missing the background banner image, but after about 60-90 seconds (your speed will vary), I was at a seemingly functional Adobe Photoshop UI. I was able to open a jpg image from my Linux ~/Desktop directory and start editing. Upon the first two times I tried running photoshop, I somehow ended up getting this (unrecoverable) wine error:
fixme:sync:CallNamedPipeW L”\\\\.\\pipe\\Adobe LM Service0ECA17E3-C1AE-4b96-89EF-8F8F0D78AF81″ 0×33e04c 24 0×33e034 8 0×33e028 0
wine: Unhandled page fault on write access to 0×00001104 at address 0×7efb5b24 (thread 0009), starting debugger…
However, the third time, as I wrote this reply, I was able to get a fully functional photoshop, with the ability to change levels, use filters such as lens correction, blur edges, variations, etc, as well as opening and saving both jpg and png files. I have posted the screen shots to my flickr site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gcoles/sets/72157594520682027/
Note that, when I tried clicking on a filter, such as lens correction, it took a good 30 seconds for the dialog to come up. After that, everything was lightning fast (dare I say, even faster than my dual 3GHz PIV Windows-based editing machine with double the RAM). I was quite impressed. All filter dialogs seemed to come up quickly after the initial wait. I will continue to experiment with this before I decide upon actually using PS in Linux seriously, but so far it looks quite promising. I imagine that a bug report or some work with the folks at Wine could help fix the HCR_GetFolderAttributes errors.
I hope that my experience can either help others with their technical problems, or further encourage them to work through any issues they encounter with this. I will also be trying this out with Adobe Lightroom, since it was copied over with the registry/Program Files export, as well.
Awesome work by the Wine team!
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127 xmi // Feb 13, 2007 at 12:43 pm
for ubuntu edgy ,
make sure to make a copy of your wine-dir and delete it, run wine photoshop.exe
then the problem appears
so you have to enter wine encode ucs-2..utf-8 adobe.reg then
make sure that you did not have tried some other recode on this file before (if you tried it with ucs-2..utf8 or whatever it don’t work then)
if your wineversion will not switch with the –winever.exe, no problem run winecfg and set winxp in this gui.
this works 100% if your photoshop-version works in windows, and you copied the whole dir