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
1 2 3 4 | sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install wine sudo wine sudo apt-get install recode |
- 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.
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’.
have to try to find out if it is working ….
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.
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. )
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
Maybe there is something that you whould take from the windows partition to the linux one, maybe it?s some reg keys…
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.
Its working perfect on my x86_64 running gentoo64bit
you sux on follow instructions
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.
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.
Perfect! Here I go!
Thanks a lot guys!
Btw: I try this for other Win Apps and it works as well!
dady from germany
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.
I’d be interested to know if there are any bugs or glitches when actually running it?
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.
@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
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
Now would this work with the rest of creative suite for ubuntu? Because I really miss my ilistrator.
The title -
HOW-TO: Adobe Photoshop CS2 on Ubuntu - 10
steps!
The How To -
7. That?s it!
7 != 10
Is there a way of doing this with the OS X version of Photoshop?
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.
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 …
I tried it, but wine won’t take the winver option. I’m using 0.9.2.
Anybody else noticing that?
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%
Why no one answers to the recode problem that a lot of people is having ?
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?
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.
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.
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!
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.
I am also having the recode problem…
For the recode problem, just “wine notepad adobe.reg” and then re-save it in a text only ANSI format (no unicode)
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.
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.
Same recode problem here.
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.
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 )
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.
I just wish that there would be a “real” linux (ubuntu) version of photoshop.
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?
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)”
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
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.
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…
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?
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
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 $PATH), but then it says it can’t find plugins, fonts, and so on, and then ultimately refuses to load because it doesn’t have all its bits and pieces. They’re right there in subdirs, but I sure as hell don’t want to enter every single one of the directories separately into my PATH variable.
Maybe my, and some other people’s, problems here are because we don’t know how to add all of a branch to our PATH, with specifying each individual subdir. Anyone who can help?
I have the same problem as Jimmy in post 28:
“err:shell:HCR_GetFolderAttributes HCR_GetFolderAttributes should be called for simple PIDL’s only!”
photoshop is able to launch, but it hangs up trying to load plugins and such. after about 10 mins, it finishes loading but gives me this error.
“A required application library failed to load and the product cannot continue. Please reinstall the application.”
any suggestions?
thanks
Philip: that’s the same problem I’m having, and several others in comments are reporting. For some reason, all those directories are not on the PATH, hence not being found, hence crucial bits not being loaded.
Solutions???
I have the same problem…
“mjr@mjr-desktop:~/.wine/c/Program Files/Adobe Photoshop CS2$ 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???
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
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?
: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.
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
@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?
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
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.
@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.
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?
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.
It doesn’t work on Edgy and latest compiled Wine.
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.
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?
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
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
Can Adobe acrobat professional 7.0 be ported this way to
ubuntu using wine?
Can somebody hack this?
Thanks
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
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
thanks for the wonderful howto…
my experience: it runs… slow start, but it runs well. Pretty slow on using filters.
~~~
Has anyone tried to print from within CS2?
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?
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.
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.
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…..
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!
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?
It’s not such a good idea to run Wine as root…
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
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.
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.
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.
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).
Got it to work perfectly first try, but I had to use the “recode ucs-2-internal adobe.reg” to recode the registry file.
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.
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?
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!
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
step 2 was wrong, i mean you have to enter:
recode ucs-2..utf-8 adobe.reg
sorry!
I’m using Pardus 2007 which is a very good linux distro. All i did is copying Adobe into wine’s c: folder. It works without any effort
Hi there
After i Copied All Adobe Dir’s and Enconde Sucsessfull the re. File i almost get an Errormessage :
“Unable to continue because of a hardware or system error. Sorry, but this error is unrcoverable”
My Sys ist Ubuntu 6.10
System and Wine are actual.
Please help
thx
ST
I followed the instructions and it’s up and working beautifully. I even have the export and features of image ready with it! I got a funky error on the .reg file when I ran the recode but it still worked, and I just ignored the error. I had a problem doing that winver command so I just opened up the wineconsole cmd and browsed to my adobe folder and ran the .exe from there. Takes a while to startup just as it does in windows, but once it gets going its faster than the xp install. Gotta love linux
I’m a tard and didn’t have the recode loaded so I downloaded the .deb during the install as well. If missing just google. I hope this works for everyone else as well, it’s worth it.
hmmm, I’ve been running photoshop solid since I posted last and out of nowhere I just got the error the dude above me got. now I’m confused, so I’m going to try and redo it and see what happens. oh ya I’m also running edgy (6.10) on a dual xenon dual core system
ok so here’s where I’m at now, with a working version again thanks to “Daniel” who posted a while back and I missed it.
-I installed wine on my ubuntu edgy, copied in the photoshop cs folders from my windows box along with the .reg and then pasted them in place
-Ran recode internal instead and it gave no errors
imported the .reg
-skipped the winver step
-launched photoshop.exe from winconsole
worked the first time then pooped out with hardware error as I noted above.
Then thanks to daniel’s note (which I will repaste at the bottom of this message) I have photoshop working again and again, after several restarts. I just can’t save customizing of the layout. Hope this helps
*******************Daniel’s comment****************
Daniel Nov 4th, 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
Got CS2 to boot on fedora 5, but it is unstable as hell… cannot open any existing psd’s and trying to use any hotkeys results in lockup and crash of the application. Anyone else having any luck on fedora 5?
Instrucciones en español para quien tenga el famoso error “no se puede continuar porque su cuenta no tiene los privilegios correctos. Inicie la sesión con una cuenta con privilegios de administrador y vuelva a intentarlo”: http://dr-fest.blogspot.com/2007/02/howto-cmo-instalar-photoshop-cs2-en.html
I actually got very far using the Photoshop CS3 beta. I followed all the directions in this how-to. I had a little trouble when it was looking for some DLLs so i copied gidplus.dll and AdobeOwl.dll to the …/Adobe\ Photoshop\ CS3/ directory, fired it up using this command
“sudo WINEDLLOVERRIDES=”gdiplus.dll” wine Photoshop.exe -winver winxp” (-winver needs to be at the end otherwise it thinks you want to run it, instead of passing it as an argument)
and it gave me those “PIDL” errors, but a window opened up. I was surprised but found out that a window popped up on start up saying “Licensing for this product has stopped working” I guess I’m having licensing issues. Darn, I got so close too. Is this a problem concerning the import of the registry keys? i guess I’m stuck because i don’t have a key for this software, I’m using the trial demo of this beta. If anyone else gets CS3 to work, please share!!!
Finally.. After hour spent trying to run PS I succeeded!
Thank you very much for this tutorial!
All those which claim to be able to run photoshop CS2 with Wine. Are you really able to run it well?? without error? Open existing PSD files .. apply filter .. save to file ..without crash?
I try to make it run well since 3 days and all i have to say is yes it run in Linux. But it’s not usable if it’s not stable enough.
How useful is Photoshop which can crash at any time???
thx
Jean-Pierre
I have problems to convert the adobe.reg file into the ASCII encoding. I’m only get the following error message:
recode: adobe.reg failed: Nicht übersetzbare Eingabe in step `ISO-10646-UCS-2..ANSI_X3.4-1968′
Still no success, tried copying program files/adobe common files/adobe application data/adobe . Tried using ntdll, userenv, secur32, shell32, shlwapi, rpcrt4, comdlg32, setupapi=n . With winecfg Windows XP compatibility mode. Photoshop boots ultra fast, but I get the following error:
Unable to continue because of a hardware or system error. Sorry, but this error is unrecoverable.And a nice quit button.
Heres the quick log
WINEDLLOVERRIDES=”ntdll,userenv,secur32,shell32,shlwapi,rpcrt4,comdlg32,setupapi=n” wine /home/pat/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Adobe/Adobe\ Photoshop\ CS2/Photoshop.exe ./manuals/hsql_guide.pdf
fixme:actctx:QueryActCtxW 80000010 0×14ac42c (nil) 1 0×33fbcc 8 (nil)
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0×5b
fixme:actctx:CreateActCtxW 0×33f290 00000008
fixme:actctx:ActivateActCtx 0xf00baa 0×33f058
fixme:actctx:DeactivateActCtx 00000000 00f00bad
fixme:actctx:ActivateActCtx (nil) 0×33f4cc
fixme:actctx:DeactivateActCtx 00000000 00f00bad
fixme:seh:_abnormal_termination (void)stub
fixme:seh:_abnormal_termination (void)stub
fixme:seh:_abnormal_termination (void)stub
fixme:seh:_abnormal_termination (void)stub
fixme:seh:_abnormal_termination (void)stub
fixme:seh:_abnormal_termination (void)stub
fixme:seh:_abnormal_termination (void)stub
fixme:seh:_abnormal_termination (void)stub
fixme:seh:_abnormal_termination (void)stub
fixme:seh:_abnormal_termination (void)stub
fixme:seh:_abnormal_termination (void)stub
fixme:sync:CreateIoCompletionPort (0xffffffff, (nil), 00000000, 00000000): stub.
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0×5b
err:x11drv:X11DRV_CreateWindow invalid window width -5
err:x11drv:X11DRV_CreateWindow invalid window height -18
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 8202 (SPI_GETFONTSMOOTHINGTYPE)
err:ole:create_server class {a1f4e726-8cf1-11d1-bf92-0060081ed811} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {a1f4e726-8cf1-11d1-bf92-0060081ed811} could be created for context 0×4
fixme:keyboard:UnregisterHotKey (0×10024,99): stub
fixme:keyboard:RegisterHotKey (0×10024,99,0×00000000,27): stub
fixme:keyboard:UnregisterHotKey (0×10024,99): stub
fixme:keyboard:RegisterHotKey (0×10024,99,0×00000000,27): stub
fixme:keyboard:UnregisterHotKey (0×10024,99): stub
fixme:keyboard:RegisterHotKey (0×10024,99,0×00000000,27): stub
fixme:font:WineEngRemoveFontResourceEx :stub
fixme:wintab32:WTInfoW (0, 0, (nil)): stub
fixme:palette:GetICMProfileA (0×99f8, 0×33e830, 0×33e834): partial stub
fixme:palette:GetICMProfileA (0×9a04, 0×33e838, 0×33e83c): partial stub
fixme:advapi:ImpersonateLoggedOnUser (0×18c)
err:ntdll:NtQueryInformationToken Unhandled Token Information class 8!
fixme:ds:DsRoleGetPrimaryDomainInformation ((nil), 1, 0×33df7c) stub
fixme:advapi:LsaOpenPolicy ((null),0×33df28,0×00000001,0×33df24) stub
fixme:advapi:LsaClose (0xcafe) stub
fixme:font:WineEngRemoveFontResourceEx :stub
fixme:keyboard:UnregisterHotKey (0×10024,99): stub
fixme:keyboard:RegisterHotKey (0×10024,99,0×00000000,27): stub
fixme:keyboard:UnregisterHotKey (0×10024,99): stub
fixme:keyboard:RegisterHotKey (0×10024,99,0×00000000,27): stub
fixme:keyboard:UnregisterHotKey (0×10024,99): stub
fixme:keyboard:RegisterHotKey (0×10024,99,0×00000000,27): stub
fixme:actctx:ReleaseActCtx 0xf00baa
How to recode the adobe.reg file with out recode. First off save the adobe.reg file to your desktop on the windows box. Then open the file with widows notepad. Then select file - save as - In file name give it a new name like adobe2.reg - in the save as type box select all files - Encoding select ANSI - then click save it comes up with a warning about unicode ignore and click ok.
2nd way I tried was to use the notepad that comes with your wine
$ notepad
open up your notepad selcect file open adobe.reg then select save as - rename file to adobe2.reg file types - all files (*) save.
What was wine’s version that you ran it with?
I have wine-0.9.32 and it simply crashes.. The best I got was a 2 glimpse of Photoshop’s main window.
(p.s. running Edgy)
FOR ACTIVATION:
http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/502262/2145238/
repack, no activation necessary =)
Got it WORKING!
I downloaded (from a torrent) Portable Photoshop CS2, unpacked it, run the exe that was in the torrent. This extracted the files for me - the original photshop dir plus the exe file that makes it ‘portable’. Moved it to the dir /home/USERNAME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/PortaShopCS2
run it with:
sudo wine “/home/USERNAME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/PortaShopCS2/PhotoshopPortable.exe”
it complained about 2 dlls missing: msvcp71.dll and msvcr71.dll
I downloaded them from the net (just google), put them into the directory ‘photoshop’ and tried again and it’s working!
The toolbar layout is always the same, complains about online update unavailable plus intro screen always present, but IS WORKING repeatedly!
No -winver needed
No further cracking needed
OS: Xubuntu 6.10
Is working
Questions? Try writing me to: janko33/-at-/pobox.sk
hi nice site.
Seems simple enough - gotta try this out! Does anyone know if this method works with InDesign as well?
Bah.
I’m on Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn and this is being a headache.
I took the REG file and dumped it in My Documents because I’m on a partition and I just grabbed it.
Then I booted over to Ubuntu and added PSCS2 to the Wine registry thingy. That all was errorless and fine. Both Window
Then I open up PS and it goes through all the stages, then gives me an error saying something about my hardware
“Unable to continue because of a hardware or system error. Sorry, but this error is unrcoverable”
Both my WINE and Ubuntu installations are about a week old, and PS runs perfectly on my XP install.
People with the winver.exe problem goto to system-> preferences wine configuration. There point drive_c to your windows c: drive
I could start CS2 but it crashed after
I tried it here and it didn’t work… it just showed the “loading…” screen.
=/
After that, the message: “Unable to continue because of a hardware or system error.Sorry, but this error is unrecoverable.”
on the terminal it says repeatedly: ” err:shell:HCR_GetFolderAttributes HCR_GetFolderAttributes should be called for simple PIDL’s only!”
someone knows what to do?
@Janko33
are shortcuts working? i know from portable CS2 versions that they crashed if you use shortcuts.
I’m on the last step and I can’t get it to run, term thows the error
wine: could not load L”c:\\windows\\system32\\-winver.exe”: Module not found
Janko33 was absolutely right! I’ve been fiddling with this damn thing for hours and I FINALLY got it by reading his post. Had to google the missing DLLs and just put them in the same directory as PhotoshopPortable.exe and it worked like a charm! Thanks!
Just thought to note that you are never to run wine with root or sudo. It is a huge security risk and breaks your ~/.wine folder. Please update the guide not to use sudo when running wine commands. Sudo is just for installing wine.
trying method listed on post 103 janko33 i think… but im trying with CS3 … missing .dll, found, loads splash and then dies… trying more stuff, let you know if and how i get it to work
Wine mseems to be very nice, but does it really runs stable? Why not using a VM? I have tried the new VirtualBox (free) and I’m really glad! Windows runns on 256MB RAM just same as my other machine with 512MB!!! (The Virtual HDD is cached by Ubuntu). VirtualBox running, you are able to install Photoshop CS2, CS3, whatever! very nice alternative if you are owning a windows licence. In my Blog, I have captured my first Impressions about the great VirtualBox. Try out, if interested http://mizine.de/?p=346
Great work guys! This was simply amazing. I just hope the stability and speed don’t suffer too much! I’m really eager to stop using Windows for good, but the major problem is surely the lack of mainstream software on Linux. It’s really a shame Adobe and other big companies aren’t seeking this market. Linux users will surely pay for quality software!
jOELTRON,
Here:
http://portableapps.com/node/1426
(See: Copy the minimum required registry entries by running “regedit”.)
Why we need to do it while Gimp offers you dat quite good env for animation.
Plus, if so I think the use of Virtual Box 1.3.8 set up Win env on top of linux and make the life easier with one click to install. Dat workds fine with me!
Will try to use this tutorial for a PS CS3 Portable distribution (there will be no need to export registry entries for Portable versions). Hopefully it will work ’cause the only reason for using Window is Photoshop… (yeah I use GIMPshop2 too) Thanks all for the tutorial and useful comments
Eu quero instalar o photoshop
Worked beautifully.
Didn’t try recode, just open the adobe.reg file in notepad and save as ANSI.
still don’t work.. this is my report :
$ recode ucs-2..ascii adobe.reg
recode: adobe.reg failed: Untranslatable input in step `ISO-10646-UCS-2..ANSI_X3.4-1968′
$~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop CS2$ sudo wine –winver winxp Photoshop.exe
wine: could not load L”c:\\windows\\system32\\\2013winver.exe”: Module not found
winever.exe is there but 2013winever.exe no
why? thanks
I got a free Ubuntu distro CD in the mail about a month ago (May 2007) and I’m thinking about installing it on a PC I have with XP Home ed., however that PC was infected with a number of viruses to the point that if you go online in XP “they come back”…Anyway I thought installing Ubuntu might be the ultimate way of ridding the viruses on that PC, and giving it a fresh OS. Then I found your article/How To for installing (or reinstalling) PS on that PC, and thought that’d be cool…until I wondered, would installing Wine resurrect the old XP related viruses and pull them into my then-Ubuntu Linux OS? Are my ideas even valid? (I’m such a noob! lol!)
thanks, useful for me , you can unblock myspace with unblock myspace form school or work .
For those who get the PIDL related errors - suffixing the entire command with &> /dev/null will speed up loading time as it reduces screen I/O.
Hey there. I’m a regular in #winehq on Freenode and I just had to help someone who followed your HOWTO fix their broken Wine system. Here’s a few things that I think you should correct:
1) $ sudo wine
There are two problems here. Firstly, it is not necessary to run wine on its own to create the “wine file structure”. This will be done the first time wine runs a program.
Secondly, wine should NEVER EVER be run under sudo, or as root, because this opens up the WHOLE system to attacks from unfriendly Windows programs and, in the case of sudo, royally stuffs up permissions. wine provides administrator-type access to Windows programs when run as a normal user, so sudo is not required anyway.
2) $ sudo wine regedit adobe.reg
Same as above, though just running “regedit” without wine should also work so:
$ regedit adobe.reg # Should work fine
3) $ sudo wine –winver winxp “[path to Photoshop]/photoshop.exe”
Once again, we have the sudo problem I’ve already covered.
Secondly, –winver is WRONG and winecfg should be used to configure the reported Windows version for either all applications or the individual photoshop.exe.
Thirdly, using the Linux/UNIX/Ubuntu path, while it may work, is also wrong, and either the Windows path (complete with ‘\’s instead of ‘/’s) or no path should be used, such as:
$ wine “C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop CS2\Photoshop.exe”
or
$ cd “~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Adobe/Photoshop CS2″
$ wine “Photoshop.exe”
Please correct your HOWTO to take the load off people like myself who have to deal with people breaking their Wine installations.
I don’t have windows
what should I do !?
if you don’t have windows take the files and registry keys from someones windows box.
Hm… I managed to run PS on my linux box but I get a message that tells me that my user name, organization or serial number is missing or invalid. I exported the adobe.reg file correctly but I still get this message. Can somebody help me out?
I was going to try this, but after looking at all the problems, I’m beyond confused. Is the original post edited to account for all the problems people had, or am I going to have to sit up all night trying different things to get it working? I love Gimp, but having ps around would be nice because there’s so much cool stuff I can do in it much easier than I can in Gimp.
it would help if someone posted all the files necessary and all you have to do is install it on a torrent site so you don’t need a windows box or whatever…of course using your own serial and whatever else. im not promoting piracy…
how can i upload this photoshop??
I have tried this a couple of times on my ubuntu system, after stealing the reg keys and installed directory from a friend who uses it on XP and have suffered both the recode errors, and the repeated terminal outputs before complaining that the version is not activated when it really is.
I havent tried to look for a cracked .exe yet as I work in web design, and therefore photoshop really is quite important to my work, the GIMP just doesnt match up to it right now and therefore I stay away.
I have it working in a Virtual Box machine on a *valid* student XP Pro license, and it runs better than PS7 ever did under wine, plus I get all the nice new features of CS2. In addition to this, I have a Manhattan Graphics tablet, which is a nightmare to get working under linux, however I can simply use it on USB Device pass through to my virtual client and use it as normal in there, or at least I assume so (drivers not installed at the min).
Its very encouraging that people are trying to get this working, and I would like to donate more time to it however I sadly dont have this.
keep up the good work, photoshop is the only app I use windows for any more, ubuntu has so far been perfect otherwise!
Just wanted to say thanks for the instructions. I’ve got PS 7.0 running on my Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) box. It’s way faster than on Windows
Anyways… thanks.
I’ve followed the instructions but when I run Photoshop, it seems to lock up at the splash screen on “Initializing suites”. Any ideas?
ok, im going to write what everyone wants to know and nobody has plainly put. this doesnt work all the way. if you want to run photoshopcs2 , get a mac or windows.
ok, if you want cs2 on your Linux:
http://youralternative.blogspot.com/2007/06/photoshop-cs2-on-linux-in-3-easy-steps.html
seriously, works awesome!
I am replacing my computer and reloading old software. I can not find the serial number for my Adobe Creative Suite… Plaese Help
“It says \\windows\system32\winver.exe doesn’t exist”
Try running it without the winver parameter. It worked for me..
sudo wine “[path to Photoshop]/photoshop.exe”
Etiger13, try just hitting enter
For those with the recode and regedit problem:
On my Win200 System i could export from Regedit in the older W9x/NT (REGEDIT4) format.
This is apparently plain ASCII, (unlike the newer .reg Fileformat).
So I did not need recode at all…
Not sure how this would work with non-western Installations, though.
It worked fpr me, and you might also try.
As always: YMMV
Just reading all this in anticipation of installing Photoshop on my Linux box, I feel like my time was well spent in learning The GiMP. Not that I don’t sympathize with all of you for making this herculean effort.
I’m a daily user of Photoshop 7, but after spending time using The GiMP at home in Ubuntu (Feisty), the only thing I really miss is the healing brush. In a pinch, I’ll send files to myself and open them in Windows to use that Photoshop tool for finishing up.
Beats banging your head against the moon by trying to fit a round peg in a square hole. If you must use Windows programs on the same computer, a dual boot is almost always going to be a better option than a Windows emulation program like Wine. You can store pictures on a USB drive that’s readable by either OS, and reboot to Windows only when necessary.
I think I will stick with windows for now….
if everyone who made reference to / used a crack / keygen put in the same persistent effort to lobby adobe to develop a linux version of photoshop…..wouldnt that be great
This seems like a pretty ridiculous How-To! Has ANYONE got this working ???
I get the error:
“Unable to continue because of a hardware or system error.Sorry, but this error is unrecoverable.”
Easier recipe: just install wine-0.9.46,
remove your old .wine directory,
and do a fresh installation of
Photoshop CS2. It just works!
See http://wiki.winehq.org/AdobePhotoshop
Its doesn’t work Dan Kegel. I have reinstall wine and removed .wine directory. I get this error: “Your Adobe Photoshop® user name, organization, or serial number is missing or invalid. The application cannot continue and must now exit.”
Anybody tried this with Adobe Photoshop CS3? I need to run it on Ubuntu, the screen of my XP-based notebook is just too small for graphics work and the desktop PC is running under Feisty Fawn.
For the first time, i got the same error message: “Unable to continue because of a hardware or system error.Sorry, but this error is unrecoverable”. I uninstalled Photoshop and Wine and everything. Removed completely .wine folder. Re-installed wine 9.46 followed by a fresh Photoshop cs2 install. It works fine except a few things:
When the installer ask for a key, you can not click on the text box, u have to use tab to navigate.
I could not activate Photoshop, when tried, it complains about not enough disk space (i have more than 200G free)
My Wacom Graphire2 is useless as the pressure sensitivity is not working with CS2 on wine. (I hope there will be a solution though)
z.
va rog foarte mult imi puteti spune de unde pot sa iau programul photoshop ca sa poata fi instalat si sa mearga sau daca il aveti duv si il puteti trimite??? astept raspunsul cat mai curand posibil
What about CS3 and other Adobe products like Illustrator or inDesign ? anyone tried that yet?
Alexandra, you should try http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/family/
i can’t get to activate it… and can’t find any crack either… any help plz?
Will this work for other adobe apps, such as indesign? Photoshop would be cool, but I really would like to have Indesign. I think I’ll try it.
i changed the character encoding this way
recode –verbose ..utf-8 adobe.reg
with adobe.reg is your registry entry for photoshop.
it works and can start photoshop cs2 until i tried to make a new file. the photoshop showed error window asking for missing library.
it works now
1. $winecfg
choose windows xp in windows version drop down menu
2. $recode –verbose ..utf-8 adobe.reg
$regedit adobe.reg
adobe.reg is your registry keys for photoshop
3. $wine /yourpath/Photoshop.exe
change yourpath to your photoshop directory
I got it working once. I opened a new document then closed it. Tried ctrl-o to open a picture and PS stopped. I used Force Quit and now it won’t boot.
I get this error: fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L”Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls”
Any ideas?
btw guys, we have Adobe Photoshop CS3 on sale now for only $347.
If you mention this site, we’ll give a 10% rebate back from Paypal after you place your order. http://4-ps.com
recode ucs-2..ascii adobe.reg
i get the following error:
(translated) Entry not tranlatable in ISO-10646-UCS-2..ANSI_X3.4-1968
For resodre will make problem
$ Recode ucs-2 .. utf-8 adobe.reg
i wasnt sure if it would work but it did yay!
i think have to copy the registry keys either, just the photoshop folder from program files, and it works fine
-props
OS: ubuntu 7.10
version of photoshop: CS2
error:
“Adobe Photoshop 8 does not run under this version of the operating system. Please check the package minimum requirements for the operating system level necessary for this software”
BUT
I managed to get vmware server working, made a win xp partition and installed photoshop CS2. It works ! Tough the interaction between both OS’s isn’t great (opening & saving images while you won’t be able to load/save them to your ubuntu folders)
nevertheless, solutions are always welcome
ps: GIMP =! photoshop !!!!
Didn’t get it to work either here, until the activation is working, a workaround is bad, but works.
Just push off the activation the 5 days, then when it finally locks, uninstall wine, rm -rf .wine, reinstall wine, then reinstall from cd. Those who don’t use a lot or for testing vs. GIMPs features this should work until the activation fix works. I think the reason why people having problems is that the CS2 they installed on their windows was not the C: drive, but another letter, say D:, therefore bringing over the adobe.reg wouldn’t work as the letter’s don’t align, the adobe.reg may tie it to C:, it may be edited to C: but haven’t gotten it to work.
Problems with a D: windows, but wine of course C: here, anyone confirm?
Gimp doesn’t have lots of CS2 features!
hahahha lolz fudu
gimp isnt photoshop. fyi. photoshop is by far way better. also id like to add vmware is slow and is really not the way to go. wine is incredible thanks for these instructions.
Dude your a legend!!! I got Flash and Dreamweaver running thanks to you and you’ve gone and done it again!!! 5 Stars!!!
i have successfully installed CS2 following these steps’
HOWEVER, when i use it it frequently freezes at even the simplest commands (eg. cropping and image).
……..and for me Photoshop is essential!
Adobe CS2 universal KeyGen
http://file2upload.net/download/24717/AdobeCS2KeyGen.rar.html
Wine-0.9.52 looks like it has much better
pressure-sensitive tablet support!
Activation is still a pain but the workaround
at http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10018#c16
lets you do it.
BTW, the post on Dec 2nd from Nude Bride
appears to be a link to a porn site, you should probably delete it.
Here is how its done in xp
Install Photoshop and activate. Once this is done copy the Photoshop cs2 directory to your portable drive. Export the reg key
236BB7C4-4419-42FD-0409-1E257A25E34D
this is the user name and serial info.
next go to
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Adobe Systems
rar this folder up.You will have to extract this folder to that location on any xp computer you use but only once.This is the activation information.
uninstall photoshop from your main drive extract the rar to the proper location run the reg file you exported an boom you have a portable version of cs2
dose anyone just have a serial number i can use O.o i mean that looks like a lot of bs to me,
-just sayin
Please give me some Photoshop CS2 Software ok ….
any ideas for CS3?
Oh my god you are a legend. King amongst men. My windows just bricked on me and the only reason I’ve been keeping it installed is for photoshop. Now that I have photoshop working on ubuntu everything is sweet. Cheers man.
Hi, i am very new to ubuntu and i really need a comprehensive guide to me install photoshop, illustrator and dreamweaver in my ubuntu machine.
I followed the first four instructions posted on the top, but i couldn’t finish the rest, because after the first four steps, i couldn’t find folder automatically created in “home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/”.
1.) Do i have to create “.wine/drive_c/Program Files” on my own?
2.) I tried creating the same extension myself, copied the entire adobe folder from drive c: to this folder; and i restart the computer to windows just to export the adobe.reg file, then restart the system again to boot into ubuntu, the folder extension i just created “home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files” went missing, what happened?
Please help me. Thank y’all very much!
After exporting the adobe.reg file and placing the file in ubuntu desktop, i tried to run the recode command, but got the following error:
ususim@ususim-ubuntu:~$ recode utf16..utf8 adobe.reg
recode: fopen (adobe.reg): No such file or directory
My other questions are:
1.) how do i check the default charset of my ubuntu os?
2.) where should i place adobe.reg file, in ‘/home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Adobe/’?
2.) if i try the recode command to recode adobe.reg, do i need to point to the exact location where the .reg file is located?
For example, let’s say the adobe.reg file is located at ‘/home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Adobe/’, do i run the recode command like this: recode utf16..utf8 /home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Adobe/
I am a newbie to ubuntu. Please help me. Thank y’all very much!
AHHHH I cant open images in CS2 (Any Format) cant even create a new canvas because of ‘a program error’ any ideas?
I tried deleting the preferences and even reinstalling but no luck
This article is quite old now folks. If ya just want to run PS, go right ahead. However, these days we can install VirtualBox>Windows>Applications.
So long as USB and 3D apps arnen’t required, this will cover everything else.
OK, with wine-0.9.54, the activation problems
people were having should disappear.
If you can build wine from source, try it now,
otherwise wait until 0.9.54 is out in a week or so.
See http://wiki.winehq.org/AdobePhotoshop for more
info.
to tryil warshan to find out if it is working
This DOES NOT work with a licensed version of Photoshop. I am assuming “Luis” did this with a CR4CK3D version. (Aka: registration cut out)
http://www.kanzelsberger.com/pixel/?page_id=12
OK, I just got a liscensed version of Photoshop 7.0 working on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon. That poor guy that posted above does not realize he has to click the “view hidden files” button to see his .wine folder.
Anyway, here’s how to make PS 7 run normally in Ubuntu. The thing you must do is put the installation folder under “.Wine” in the C: drive. Then go to the Wine manager and point it to the file “install.exe” thats on the C: drive now. Set Wine up to use Windows XP with it. Now go to the install folder under C: in the wine folder and right click on install.exe. Select “open with wine”. Now the install will start and run normally. Everything went without a hitch. I suspect this will work fine with CS2 also. I dont have a copy to try, but it looks like it will work. The install file has to think it’s in a normal windows environment. Wine even has a pseudo registry. Anyway, hope this help.
Dr. Who.
to those having the System Error, try resetting the photoshop preferences
To reset Photoshop prefs, hold down the Ctrl+Alt+ Shift keys when launching the app
WHAT IS THE SERIAL NUMBER FOR PHOTOSHOP CS2???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!
Two things I found very helpful:
1. if recode does not work, go get notepad++ (which installs nicely in wine btw), open the .reg in np++, then use Format -> Encode in ANSI, and Format -> Convert to Unix Format and the .reg’s will definitely be digestible by wine regedit
2. I did have to export the {236bb… } key otherwise PS fails with invalid organization or serial dialog box. But importing the 236bb registry key at least allows it to function for 30 days ( It still looses the activation information somehow). I think re-doing the wine regedit for that key will reset the 30 day clock, but I am not sure. Does anybody know where the activation code/info is contained so I do not have to money with a crack / keygen?.
Hi. I am trying to get this working for my case, but I have Photoshop etc set up in D: drive on my Windows XP. Would this matter when I move it to “drive_c” in Wine?
was the only reason not to use linux, now that problem is solved.
Many thanx
do you even try what you write up as an entry? there were like 100+ people who said it didnt work, so in the future you should test your guide before posting it.
Why is it that you run WINE with root privileges? That is a mad thing to do.
(From http://wiki.winehq.org/AdobePhotoshop)
# You shouldn’t have to copy Photoshop from Windows; just install it under Wine by running its Setup.exe. (To run a .exe under wine, you have to doubleclick it, right click and choose “Run with Wine”, or run it from the commandline using the ‘wine’ command, depending on how your Linux distribution integrates Wine.)
# Never use a cracked version of Photoshop.
# Never run Wine as root.
no en cuentro mi sofwer de mi print fix
Hi all!
When I type sudo wine regedit adobe.reg the terminal say:
federico@Federico-Desktop:~$ sudo wine regedit adobe.reg
[sudo] password for federico:
wine: /home/federico/.wine is not owned by you
federico@Federico-Desktop:~$
fix for
“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”
create a blank file of Adobe Photoshop CS2 Prefs.psp and PS opens fine.
Damn, this was hard….but thanks to Knapper, the trick with the registry-key
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Uninstall\{236BB7C4-4419-42FD-0409-1E257A25E34D}]
worked for me
:) 
!!!
I had the same problem - CS2 exited with an error message that name and serial number doesn’t match…
Thank you very much, I have CS2 on Suse 10.3
perfect!
please i want to know what is the activation code fore the activation number :6832 - 0499 - 8363 - 1973 - 8325 - 2107 - 3629 …please
P.S : i don’t have the keygen…..it has virus…….please somebudy ….
Thank you
Hi,
I installed photoshop cs2 directly on the wine
and it do threw about 494 lines of OLE error and 5 fixme(maybe meant for developers) error.I thought it won’t work.But to my surprise it’s working clearly.As iam a new bie to photoshop i have to check out which one is working properly.Anyway i have installed photoshop as regular user and so it can be removed without messing up my system.
Hello everyone,
have you all tried with CS3?
and by the way,
this is a great post..