This HOW-TO covers up the whole process of installing Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 & Macromedia Flash 8 in a Ubuntu box in a few simple steps. Any questions or feedback leave them in the comments. This method can be applied also to make Macromedia Studio 8 run under Ubuntu.
- What you need?
- A fresh install of Ubuntu Dapper + all the updates
- A Windows box with a functional install of Dreamweaver 8 and Flash 8 or Macromedia Studio 8
IMPORTANT: I own an original license of the Macromedia Studio 8, but in order to use it under Linux sometimes the original *.exe of Flash and Dreamweaver have to be cracked or patched. I’M NOT ENCOURAGING PIRACY, I’m just presenting a method for those who have an original license and want to use it under an alternative platform.
- 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 Macromedia folder from “c:\Program Files\” to “/home/YOURNAME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/”
- Copy the whole Macromedia folder from “c:\Documents and settings\All users\Application Data” to “/home/YOURNAME/.wine/drive_c/window/profile/all users/Application Data/”
- Copy the whole Macromed (No mistake with the “ai”) from “c:\Windows\system32\” to “/home/YOURNAME/.wine/drive_c/window/system32/”
- Finally, copy the whole Macromedia folder from “c:\Program Files\Common Files” to “/home/YOURNAME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Common Files/”
- Now you need to export the registry keys of the Dreamweaver;
- In your Windowx box, type “regedit” in the command-line and export the whole “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Macromedia/” to “macromedia.reg”, then copy it to your your Ubuntu and convert it to ascii with “$ recode ucs-2..ascii macromedia.reg”. Afterwards, type “$ sudo wine regedit macromedia.reg” to run it with wine.
- That’s it! Type “$ wine dreamweaver.exe” or “$ wine flash.exe” and enjoy Dreamweaver & Flash in Ubuntu
Additionally, if you want full functionality download the latest version of winetools and install TrueType Font Arial, dcom98, MFC 4.x and IE 6.0 SP1
Not really sure if I quite understood what your instructions meant. Great help, but I presume Dreamweaver are just meant to run on Windows.
umm… what?!
thanks for the best how-to
Wonderful! Quick question: Will this work on breezy or is this specific to Dapper?
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I get this error after following all of the above steps:
wine: could not load L”c:\\windows\\system32\\dreamweaver.exe”: Module not found
Wow a HOWTO just to install a program. No wonder Linux blows.
Installing software:
Linux - HOWTO
Windows - Installer program (VISE, MSI, etc)
Mac - Drag and Drop
If you don’t like Linux, why bother trolling on a Linux How-To?
Anyway, your comparison sucks…
Installing Linux software on a Windows box is harder than installing Windows software on Linux…
Of course Linux Software on a Mac is usually not that difficult, but that because it is a form of BSD, which is very similar to Linux…
@Joe Blowsa
Dreamweaver runs in windows. Let me know when you have the MSI to install that linux only program (like Amarok
Works a treat! Cheers
No more dual booting
Brian Pedigo wrote:
I get this error after following all of the above steps:
wine: could not load L?c:\\windows\\system32\\dreamweaver.exe?: Module not found
run it has Super user!! $ sudo wine dreamweaver.exe
Hola a todos, segui paso a paso, los puntos mencionados y a la hora de querer ejecutar el dreamweaver me marca este error.
eromero@blackshadow:~/.wine$ wine dreamweaver.exe
wine: could not load L”c:\\windows\\system32\\dreamweaver.exe”: Module not found
Now if we could get a kickass video editor like Priemere/After Effects in Ubuntu that would be great! Adobe Illustrator would be nice too.
If you get any of these to work, PLEASE post
Dude, thanks a lot for this!
Doesn’t anyone else get the following error from the recode step?
recode: macromedia.reg failed: Untranslatable input in step `ISO-10646-UCS-2..ANSI_X3.4-1968′
xoc.
This line:
Copy the whole Macromedia folder from ?c:\Documents and settings\All users\Application Data? to ?/home/YOURNAME/.wine/drive_c/window/profile/all users/?
I think should read this:
Copy the whole Macromedia folder from ?c:\Documents and settings\All users\Application Data? to ?/home/YOURNAME/.wine/drive_c/window/profile/all users/Application Data?
But either way, this was an excellent tutorial and worked beautifully. I didn’t need to convert the reg file to ascii either because I copied it like this:
1. Open the network file browser
2. Go -> Location
3. smb://xpbox/c$
4. Then copied the file using the file browser, from there to a location on the ubuntu box
yeah, i get that message too, and i cannot for the life of me figure out how to solve it. The problem is that there is no ascii character set on the default install of ubuntu (at least i cant find one) so recode fails (ascii = ansi_x3…). I can’t find out how to install this character set though, and am at a loss on how to convert it otherwise.
Too weird… When I had Dapper, I install Flash 8 normally with $wine install install\ studio\ 8.exe from a mount image of studio 8. Than I lost my disc and install Ubuntu Edgy and that mode doesn’t worked :S And now i can’t pass throw “recode: macromedia.reg failed: Untranslatable input in step” …
Well i did it… “$ recode unicode..ascii macromedia.reg” and it worked fine
Guys, this is really working!
It works for me like a charm, forget all those shit that are being told by others. Just spend 10 minutes for doing this and forget windows! Nice work, thanks!
I followed the instructions for wine + dreamweaver, however, when I run “wine dreamweaver.exe” I get the following warning, and then the program say there is a problem and quit. Here is the warning:
File r300_state.c function r300Enable line 456
TODO - double side stencil !
No ctx->FragmentProgram._Current!!
File r300_state.c function r300Enable line 456
TODO - double side stencil !
No ctx->FragmentProgram._Current!!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0×33f7d0,0×00000000), stub!
Any hints?
Not working for me.
On my windows box there is no Application Data folder at:
C:\Documents and Settings\All users\Application Data
There is an “Application Data Techsmith” folder that Snagit uses, but no Macromedia folder in there.
Following the rest of the directions and trying to run either dreamweaver or flash.exe all I get is:
mark@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ wine Flash.exe
wine: could not load L”c:\\windows\\system32\\Flash.exe”: Module not found
(I tried dreamweaver.exe, Dreamweaver.exe, etc too)
I would LOVE to get this working. Any help is greatly appreciated!
I followed the instructions using my copy of DW and Flash and both worked wonderfully. The directions are a little messed up but one of the people above (mp) fixed the mistake.
This is awesome!
Funciona. Bravo, enhorabuena! Ahora con el Xgl y Compiz, no hay manera que Wine muestre la ventana.
Pero me parece estupendo, puesto que no uso compiz cuando trabajo, es m?s que nada de exposici?n para los amigos.
Gracias!
easily install IE with flash 9 plugin :
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/index-en.html
Solved the problem Macromedia - XGL.
Nice How-to, now I don’t need Hasefroch anymore!!!!!!
For Joe Blowsa:
Please go home and shut up if you are not interested, you should apreciate others work because the only thing you are able to do is double-click install.exe in a windows box. Why don’t you try to install XGL and Compiz in Windows XP, jajaja!
Asterisk for VOIP, try, try. Sad news, don’t try to install native linux applications on Windows.
Maybe you can install Cygwin, however you can’t make it work!
Go to http://www.windowsloversucker.com, this is not your place!
To the people getting:
“wine: could not load L?c:\\windows\\system32\\dreamweaver.exe?: Module not found”
I believe (I’m a Linux newbie too) that if you want to run the application from the terminal, you first have to be in the application’s folder (/home/username/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Macromedia/Dreamweaver 8/).
However, instead of running it from the terminal right click on your desktop and create a launcher using the appropriate path in the command,
i.e, enter this in the launcher’s command field to run Dreamweaver:
wine “/home/your_user_name/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Macromedia/Dreamweaver 8/Dreamweaver.exe”
To the people having problems encoding of the registry file:
I followed mp’s suggestion above, and I copied the file from ubuntu using nautilus.
I first exported the registry key from Windows and left it on my windows desktop. Since I’m dual booting, I then navigated to the windows desktop from ubuntu, copied the file and run it through wine without encoding it.
I hope this helps.
Thank you for the wonderful tutorial!!
Works liek a charm — thank you!
I do see Flash MX is supported in crossover, but WINE is free…so I guess thats the way to go
I too have no Application Data folder on my windows, what do I do?
Please help
olle los que lo han podido hacer funcionar, me pueden decir como lo han echo?? a mi me arranca y me sale la pantalla de flash 8 diciendo que vuelva a instalar la aplicacion…:S
ryouga@jabber.org
lotraigomoreno@gmail.com
gracias
Hi
Thankyou thankyou thankyou for a great tutorial. Had a problem at 1st because i transfered corrupted Dreamweaver files from my windows computer over my personal network, doh. But once i re-transfered and followed the instructions again top dollar :oD
SO chuffed, thanks dude, who needs windows anymore!
However my 2 cents…. folks who are having the problem with ?wine: could not load L?c:\\windows\\system32\\dreamweaver.exe?: Module not found? TRY this fix!
I know its been said before how to do this but this is newer clearer instructions for newbies, detailed better ;o)
To load up either dreamweaver OR flash in terminal try this command, but don’t forget to replace the “CHANGE2YOURPROFILENAME” with your own profile name.
TO LOAD DREAMWEAVER
wine “/home/CHANGE2YOURPROFILENAME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Macromedia/Dreamweaver 8/Dreamweaver.exe”
TO LOAD FLASH
wine “/home/CHANGE2YOURPROFILENAME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Macromedia/Flash 8/Flash.exe”
Please notice no need to sudo in terminal to load…! (Of course u could always try sudo if it doesn’t load).
Next up if you want to load up either dreamweaver or flash using an icon, this is the way to do it!
Right click on your desktop (obviously to create a desktop icon) left click on create launcher.
In basic tab fill in Name: Dreamweaver
Paste In Command box: wine “/home/CHANGE2YOURPROFILENAME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Macromedia/Dreamweaver 8/Dreamweaver.exe”
Click the icon and choose a desktop icon you would like to use.
That should be it. Double click the icon on the desktop and voila, dreamweaver should load up.
Follow the same procedure again to put a flash icon on desktop. but remember to put Flash in the name box and this command line in the command box: wine “/home/CHANGE2YOURPROFILENAME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Macromedia/Flash 8/Flash.exe”
One more thing make sure u change CHANGE2YOURPROFILENAME to your profile name. :oD
Hope this helps anybody :o) Cheers PublicidadPixelada for the quality guide!
OK. I am not a Linux newbie and I can’t get it to work. I get the:
wine: could not load L?c:\\windows\\system32\\dreamweaver.exe?: Module not found
This has nothing to do with setting up a launcher, or running with sudo, or running from the command line.
Perhaps someone can post a real solution instead of just random guesses?
hi all…
i done all things N+1 times but only appears the splash macromedia Dreamweaver.. :((
In my ubuntu dapher i can’t run dreamweaver..
Any sugestions??
Sorry my poor inglish..
Luis Alves (PT)
This is the output…
$wine Dreamweaver.exe
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0×7fb9f7d0,0×00000000), stub!
fixme:ole:CoRegisterMessageFilter stub
JS Error:
MM is not defined
filename: C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Dreamweaver 8\Configuration\Startup\helpDocs.js
Can someone help me please??
To all the people not finding your ‘Macromedia’ folder in All users/Application Data it’s because you need to show hidden folders in Windows to see it (off by default).
In Windows Explorer click on Tool –> Folder Options –> View and then scroll down and click ‘Show Hidden Files and Folders’
Then you can just copy it to your shared network folder and copy it using Samba or whatever to Linux.
There’s like a picture Flash 8 in Open Suse running on my blog
Hi. Nice tutorial, but I have some problem.
After following all your instructions, if I launch one of these commands (in the right folder)…
wine Dreamweaver.exe
sudo wine Dreamweaver.exe
wine Flash.exe
sudo wine Flash.exe
…I have some problem, with differents errors, all like this:
err:shell:SHGetFolderPathW Failed to create directory ‘L”c:\\windows\\profiles\\ricci\\Cookies”‘.
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0×7fb9f7d0,0×00000000), stub!
fixme:shell:_SHGetDefaultValue (5,L”"), LoadString failed, missing translation?
err:shell:SHGetFolderPathW Failed to create directory ‘L”c:\\windows\\profiles\\ricci\\Desktop”‘.
After, wine open the Flash (or Dreamweaver) window saying “there was a problem during the installation, please repeat the installation”.
I have thought that I am italian and I have Windows in italian, so maybe the registry keys and the path are different.
So I have tried to rename “Program Files” in “Programmi”, “Application Data” in “Dati Applicazioni” etc.
But it still doesn’t works.
Or, better.. it works, it open a Flash window, but it is an error window
Someone have some ideas?
bye
Davide
Will the same method work for Photoshop CS as well?
Coral - THANK YOU! Yes, the hidden folder ‘feature’ was the culprit. I copied it over and now have Dreamweaver 8 and Flash 8 working in Ubuntu. Sweet! I just tried Captivate, Fireworks 8, and Homesite+ and none of those work, but heck - beggars can’t be choosers : )
To those getting the “module not found error”: I got the same thing and then realized that I was using “dreamweaver.exe” instead of “Dreamweaver.exe”… that capital D made all of the difference along with being in the app’s directory.
This is the error information when I attempt to run it from command line:
fixme:user:EnumDisplayDevicesA ((nil),0,0×406bfb84,0×00000000), stub!
fixme:hook:SetWinEventHook (10,11,(nil),0×70d9a888,0,0,0×00000000)-stub!
fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no classfactory created for CLSID {275c23e2-3747-11d0-9fea-00aa003f8646}, hres is 0×80040150
fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no classfactory created for CLSID {275c23e2-3747-11d0-9fea-00aa003f8646}, hres is 0×80040150
fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no classfactory created for CLSID {275c23e2-3747-11d0-9fea-00aa003f8646}, hres is 0×80040150
fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no classfactory created for CLSID {275c23e2-3747-11d0-9fea-00aa003f8646}, hres is 0×80040154
The GUI error message says: Please reinstall your software. A problem was detected with your application. Please reinstall this software to correct the problem.
Help please.
Wow, thanks! This is a big help, thanks for the tutorial!
Lycome -
I was getting the same message until I copied the Application Data\Macromedia folder over (originally I didn’t see the folder in the windows directory because it is hidden by default). Are you sure you copied that folder over to your wine/drive_c directory as the procedure states?
Nice guide. Thanks for making our work a lot easier. cheers mate!
In your Windowx box, type ?regedit? in the command-line and export the whole ?HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Macromedia/? to ?macromedia.reg?, then copy it to your your Ubuntu,
You dont say where to copy this file to .. just copy it to your Ubuntu.. wherre do you put it?
Thanks
Tim,
It’s been a few weeks now but if I recall correctly you just need to open a terminal and then navigate to the directory where the reg file is located (do this after you have converted it via the instructions!) and then just type:
wine macromedia.reg
I believe this just installs the registry key into the wine/windows registry.
I follow all the steps of the tutorial, but when I type “wine regedit macromedia.reg” on my Desktop where I copy macromedia.reg from windows i get this:
Warning: the specified Windows directory L”c:\\windows” is not accessible.
Warning: the specified System directory L”c:\\windows\\system32″ is not accessible.
Warning: could not find DOS drive for current working directory ‘/home/kike/Desktop’, starting in the Windows directory.
wine: could not load L”c:\\windows\\system32\\macromedia.reg”: Module not found
What’s wrong?
Thanks
It runs perfectly on Mandriva 2007 too.
S? now are my last excuse for running Windows gone
All I want is the flash 8 plug-in for firefox. Is that possible? Synaptic only lets you do 7.something, so every website says macromedia flash 8 required. It drives me insane!
Thanks for the tutorial, well done on figuring this out.
Before that i’m using windows, and i’m installint the Dreamweaver in an .exe file. In ubuntu, i did try to install it by using wine, it seems not fully, and not successfully install.
Am i need to downloads other package from some where?
Where can i get this package downlaod, “A Windows box with a functional install of Dreamweaver 8 and Flash 8 or Macromedia Studio 8.”
dang, it actually worked. thanks dude.
i too had the encoding error the first time. it worked the second time.
i also had the “wine: could not load L?c:\\windows\\system32\\Flash.exe?: Module not found”
actually, i still have that error. but if i navigate to the actual .exe file (e.g. /home/jay/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Macromedia/Dreamweaver 8/) and right click on the Dreamweaver.exe file. then i clicked on the “Open With Other Application….”, then i clicked on “Use a custome command” and typed wine in for the command. it worked.
i still can’t run it from the terminal. what am i missing?
$ wine /home/jay/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Macromedia/Dreamweaver 8/Dreamweaver.exe
Anyone try this on Ubuntu 6.10 (”Edgy”) yet?
I am trying it on Edgy. I get this popup error when dreamweaver begins:
The following JavaScript error(s) occurred:
At line 2 of file “C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Dreamweaver 8\Configuration\Startup\helpDocs.js”:
ReferenceError: MM is not defined
–I click ok, then another MM error in a slightly different location at line 3
–I click ok again same error at line 8
then
Dreamweaver encountered problems while constructing the menus from the current menus.xml file.
Please delete the current menus.xml file and rename menus.bak to menus.xml
And I don’t know what to do about that! It stops dead there.
Hey I tried it on edgy. It didnt work. There were some erros regarding JavaScript errors and then clicking through those gave me a message about deleting a menus.xml and renaming a menus.bak file (couldn’t find these files) The error was something about MM not defined.
Next I tried Flash 8 now I have nothing but a blank desktop in Edgy, not toolbars menu bars or anything. I dont know what to do. I may have to start over! Damn
Worked for me in EDGY by:
1. setting up a base system with winetools
2. using the last wine from winehq.
3. exporting the entire registry.
4. converting it to 8bit ASCII with scintilla text editor.
5. $wine regedit whole_registry_ascii.reg
6. create the hardlink “c:\Documents and Settings” pointing to “c:\windows\profiles\”
7. putting all the “?c:\Documents and settings\All users\Application Data” stuff in “c:\windows\profiles\all users\Applications” (OR Applicazioni if you are italian).
8. creating an hardlink every time some folder’s name is language dependent (eg. it-IT=”Dati Applicazioni” —hardlinkto—>en-EN=”Application Data”
good luck:)
This worked perfectly for me. I’m running edgy with AIGLX & Beryl.
The only thing I had to do differently was install SCiTe to recode the .reg file. I was going to install scintilla like the post above suggested but I couldn’t find it in the repos so I just installed SCiTe. Once scite is installed, simply launch scite–>file–>open–>browse the location of your exported registry file and open it. Once your .reg file is open in scite you’ll be able to change the encoding (I beleive the option is in the file menu). You need to change it to 8 bit.
If you’re actually copying the files from within Windows, and not transfering the files from a windows partition or share, you can open the .reg file in notepad and change the encoding from there. In notepad you just open the file, then go to ’save as’ and there should be a dialog where you can choose the type of encoding you want to use.
OK! Resolved the bugs on dreamweaver 8!!
Don’t leave any file from Common/Startup, listen here:
just add these following code on the top of the file
~/.wine/drive_c/Programmi/Macromedia/Dreamweaver 8/Configuration/Shared/Common/Scripts/dwscripts.js
function MM()
{
}
Save and run!
It works?
Bye
Davide
____________________________________________________
OK! risolti anche i buchi su [b]dreamweaver 8!!![/b]
Basta aggiungere il seguente codice all’inizio del file
[b]~/.wine/drive_c/Programmi/Macromedia/Dreamweaver 8/Configuration/Shared/Common/Scripts/dwscripts.js[/b]
[code]
function MM()
{
}
[/code]
to all :
after sudo apt-get install wine —->
do not do : sudo wine - you will get this kind of messages -> wine: could not load L?c:\\windows\\system32\\dreamweaver.exe?
because then U can only run Dreamweaver with: sudo wine dreamweaver.exe
so for use Dreamweaver as User not Root use the following command sequence :
$ sudo apt-get wine;
$ wine
NOT
$ sudo apt-get wine;
$ sudo wine
this way ‘wine dreamweaver.exe’ will work ELSE if U already do : $ sudo wine, then use dreamweaver with: sudo wine dreamweaver.exe.
Succes to all !
PS: for the guy with MS installer -> normally a Linux user install apps. with a single click on Synaptic or other GUI package manager, or with a single line of code -> sudo apt-get wine, smart install wine ..etc. Also Linspire distro has the best way to install software(via CNR - Click and Run ) from this world.
wow, instantly worked on ubuntu edgy.
thanks, you saved my day!
Spent two days on this…
I collected all the errors read here.
Now It works quite ok, a bit slow, but It does the work.
As a last try I renamed my .wine directory (mv /home/user/.wine /home/user/.wino) and made a new one (launching wine alone).
Followed the tutorial steps again and guess? It worked.
I suppose there was some relict of a previous wine installation, maybe something installed by winetools o ies4linux.
Now I have a “clean” wine and evry winzoz app I need working.
I read somewhere about people who could not open flash files: this happened to me too, and I found that “wined flash” do not open files on folders outside “fake drive c”, so create a symbolic link to wherever keep your fla files and that’s ok!
Well done boys!
wow…there has never been any better explanation than this. This probably opens a way of installing many applications under ubuntu from windows
i’m using flash and it’s kinda working,
but it’s loosing parts of my library all the time (yes!),
crashes without reason, and sometimes corrupts the fla format when saving.
anyone has an idea?
Not working here.
Dreamweaver loads but then says
A problem was detected with your application. Please reinstall this software to correct the problem.
I also have no macromedia folder under c:\documents and settings\all users\
I do have one under c:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINDOWS\
So I tried to copy that one to my .wine all users folder but still get the error.
I then setup the folder ‘All Users.WINDOWS’ on my linux box in corresponding place, but still no joy.
Anyone having similar problems??
I had some issues at first, but looked in the windows\system32 and saw shortcuts. Then I thought wait a second and called the file directly. In other words, put the full path in.
Example: $ wine “C:\\Program Files\\Macromedia\\Dreamweaver 8\\Dreamweaver.exe” and it ran like a charm.
thks a lot, i’m from brazil, and i’m glad i can have macromedia in my linux pc at my job…
this was too easy to do, i’ve been using ubuntu for 3 days and i have no linux experience…
thks
I like this guide, i’m trying to gfollow it now, all what i need is to add the registry entries and it’s done… Thank’s for this information.
Do you know how to install Corel Draw X3 on linux?
If true, could you make HowTo like this one?
Thanks in advance
It really works, thanks a lot.
I think that we can use this HowTo in order to install also other non-Macromedia apps.
I have c:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINDOWS\Application Data\Macromedia
Copied it to ?All Users? on my wine linux box in corresponding place. It worked fine. Note I removed “.WINDOWS”. I think that this is added during a reinstallation or update of Windows, and is used by other applications instead of the original “All Users” folder.
I have various earlier versions of DW like MX 2004 and I just deleted these from the various directies. Also I only exported & then imported Dreamweaver/8 (ie not 7) and it worked fine.
Absolutely exellent it works. There were a few typos in the original instructions involving some initial capital letters and missing “s” from windows and profiles. Here is a corrected version which could be used in a script: (my user name is “ian” - change it to yours, or /home/ian could be replaced with ~)
* Copy ?c:\Program Files\Macromedia?
to ?/home/ian/.wine/drive_c/Program Files?
* Copy ?c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Macromedia?
to ?/home/ian/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/All Users/Application Data?
* Copy ?c:\Windows\system32\Macromed?
to ?/home/ian/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32?
* Copy ?c:\Program Files\Common Files\Macromedia?
to ?/home/ian/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Common Files?
To run in a terminal type
“wine /home/ian/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Macromedia/Dreamweaver 8/Dreamweaver.exe”
I always see that mac is BSD and like Linux. If it is so similar, why are we trying to run emulated windows programs when these same programs rum on mac. Wouldn’t it be easier to emulate mac or just port the mac programs to Linux?
#68: Excellent question - I suppose there’s an explanation, but I’m curious as to what it might be. Evidently mac and linux are both unix based… in theory this oughtta make a port possible as notnow suggests, or…?
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Anyway… I formally got it working using this method with Flash (time has to show how stable it is). However, I can ONLY start Flash by directly clicking the Flash.exe file in the .wine dir.
As such I cannot create a working shortcut to the Flash.exe file in the .wine dir nor can it load from the command prompt. I copied the Macromedia folders from a native language version and I suspect that this may be the reason as some of folder names in the native dir varies from the .wine dir (e.g. the .wine dir “Program Files” is named “Programmer” in the original dir). Some here has suggested making hardlinks to resolve this issue, but I’d appreciate if somebody could provide a _step_by_step_ approch as to how to do this.
Cheers!
Running Dreamweaver on Ubuntu. Followed all the steps but still getting the following message. Any solutions for this message?
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0?7fb9f7d0,0?00000000), stub!
Thanks! One addition: to install flash 9 public alpha first export Adobe in place of Macromedia and do everything like the guide but then use Adobe and don’t go looking in C:\WINDOWS\System32 for Adobe because you don’t need it
I purchased flash pro, but wine seems to load it up as basic. is everyone else having theres loading up as flash basic?
When I click on the “upgrade to pro” it asks me to try or buy giving no option to input serial.
Dude! This is the coolest thing I’ve seen yet. Better than xgl, beryl, compiz….. I can finally ditch windows!!!!
YAY
Eres una maravilla! Muchisimas gracias!
hi mates!! does anyone get a pressure sensitive tablet to work with flash under ubuntu?
thx btw
hola amigos!! alguien pudo hacer que una taleta de dise?o funcione con flash en ubuntu?
por cierto gracias
thaha@ubuntu:~/.wine$ sudo wine Dreamweaver.exe
Warning: Language ‘en_IN’ was not recognized, defaulting to ‘en_US’.
Warning: Language ‘en_IN’ was not recognized, defaulting to ‘en_US’.
Warning: Language ‘en_IN’ was not recognized, defaulting to ‘en_US’.
Warning: the specified Windows directory L”c:\\windows” is not accessible.
Warning: the specified System directory L”c:\\windows\\system32″ is not accessible.
Warning: could not find DOS drive for current working directory ‘/home/thaha/.wine’, starting in the Windows directory.
wine: could not load L”c:\\windows\\system32\\Dreamweaver.exe”: Module not found
I have Tried
$ sudo wine Dreamweaver.exe
Warning: Language ‘en_IN’ was not recognized, defaulting to ‘en_US’.
Warning: Language ‘en_IN’ was not recognized, defaulting to ‘en_US’.
Warning: Language ‘en_IN’ was not recognized, defaulting to ‘en_US’.
Warning: the specified Windows directory L”c:\\windows” is not accessible.
Warning: the specified System directory L”c:\\windows\\system32″ is not accessible.
Warning: could not find DOS drive for current working directory ‘/home/thaha/.wine’, starting in the Windows directory.
wine: could not load L”c:\\windows\\system32\\Dreamweaver.exe”: Module not found
Please help me
Perfect
did had some problems in finding recode rpm and then with dwscript.js but was resolved by putting the function defination of MM .
i m using Fedora 6 and followed the steps and it worked
thanks alot dude
Try this on fedora core 6 and ubuntu edgy. Install wine 0.9.30 , and run the dreamweaver and fireworks windows .exe installer. They both install fine, and run perfectly under this wine version, and you dont need a windows box or any of the original instructions. Will not work on most current version of wine 0.0.31 as of 2/18/07
Hi, I’ve just test your method to put dream flash and fireworks on my ubuntu, and the first word is thanks… it work great, but there’s only one pb when i dropdown the list of font in flash there’s many duplicated fonts … and when i do the same in fireworks no pb of fonts at all…
Just to know if one of you have encountered this pb and if there’s solution
Thanks, sorry for my poor english
Thanks a lot!!! I was using DW MX, cause I couldn’t get DW8 to work, till now…
Those who get this error:
wine Dreamweaver.exe
wine: could not load L”c:\\windows\\system\\Dreamweaver.exe”: Module not found
try this:
wine /root/.wine/c/Programme/Macromedia/Dreamweaver\ 8/Dreamweaver.exe
Whith the full path it should work. And if you don’t any folder (Application Data,etc), just create it.
I’m on CentOS release 4.3 (Final)
One command :
apt-get install nvu
(nvu is similar to DreamWeaver, but free (FLOSS)) If this is not simpler than :
* open a browser
* search on versiontracker.com
* double-click on the installer if there is one or drag and drop otherwise
* look for serial numbers if you want to crack it (and be illegal)
* etc.
Then yes, Linux is really too complicated and I should give up computing. Otherwise : please consider using Linux too, especially if your right hand burns from using too much the mouse.
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I worked for me! Neat! No more dual boots!
Hey hey, finally got it working!!!
For all those people having dramas, just be patient cause I had most of those errors and then it just started working.
This is the best thing ever, Hastala-Vista Microsoft.
Thank you so much man! Thanks to this, I’m probably never going to have to boot windows again!
Sam B
My problem is that, logo “DreamWeaver 8″ is freezed.And the specific message that i to get from terminal is that:
ptsougk@ptsougk-linux:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Macromedia/Dreamweaver 8$ wine Dreamweaver.exe
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0×5b
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0×5b
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0×33f7d0,0×00000000), stub!
fixme:ole:CoRegisterMessageFilter message filter has been registered, but will not be used
JS Error:
dwscripts is not defined
filename: C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Dreamweaver 8\Configuration\Shared\Common\Scripts\dwscriptsServer.js
lineno: 23
Any Help???????
I fix me previous problem and know have this with this message:
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0×33f7d0,0×00000000), stub!
Macromedia did opened but with a page says that “Reinstall your Software” (Macromedia Product Activation)
I did correct all tha above steps, what went wrong???
Thank you Very Much, now i can switch to just linux, (i already did, but that’s because I accidently destroyed the windows partition)
and phanos, did you copy the part in the register?
or else, try finding a cracked.exe
one thing, before copying it to linux, first activate it in windows
btw. i can’t seem to be able to export flashes as an exe
I just want to say that I used Dreamweaver 8, I didn’t bother with the registry keys, and everything is working fine. It came right up and asked me which layout I wanted to use. Also there was no c:\windows\system32\macromed (or macromedia) so I didn’t copy it and it’s working fine. Your mileage may vary, and I actually did this on Feisty!
For the recode part, I just tried different types of encoding I knew and utf8 did the job for me.
So, the code I used was:
recode utf8..ascii macromedia.reg
I have followed all steps and when I run wine dreamweaver.exe I get the following popup message.
Macromedia Dreamweaver
Could not locate the Resources file in the Configuration folder. This files is required to run Dreamweaver. Please reinstall the application.
I have tried reinstalling this doesn’t work.
I have checked the folder and the file does exist.
Any help??
Thanks
LK
Thanks a lot.. it’s working
This site is really superb!!! Thank you for you work! Good Luck
Great, it works under Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) after first start with sudo wine ….!
Hi to you all,
I want to thank you for this great post.
However I have this small problem.
Dreamweaver and Flash are working just fine but when i try to run Fireworks like this:
wine “/home/MY_USER_NAME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Macromedia/Fireworks 8/Fireworks.exe”
… i get this outpot:
err:module:import_dll Library gdiplus.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\Program Files\\Macromedia\\Fireworks 8\\Fireworks.exe”) not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L”C:\\Program Files\\Macromedia\\Fireworks 8\\Fireworks.exe” failed, status c0000135
Can someone help me please!
Best Regards to you all.
Anyone?
Runs like a charm here on Feisty beta. Even with Beryl effects! Thanks!
About the Wine file structure (and for future reference):
I had never used Wine (nor Linux) before and the command
$ sudo wine
did not create the needed Wine file structure where I had to copy my Windows files to. I created it myself and tried copying the files to those directories but of course that did not work. The command
$ winecfg
however did the trick. It opens a configuration window but right before that, it creates the file structure. You can just close the window again.
The rest of the instructions all worked (running Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft with all updates).
Thanks heaps!
Quoting: I believe (I’m a Linux newbie too) that if you want to run the application from the terminal, you first have to be in the application’s folder (/home/username/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Macromedia/Dreamweaver 8/).
That hit the spot for me, couldn’t wine the whole path.
AND I can confirm it works in 7.04 Feisty… Sweet
What if you have a windows in a diferent language then your linux instalation? Does the directories matter?
OH MY GOD thank you sooooo much. i wanted to go Linux ages ago but things like this stopped me, being a newbie I’m sucking in all information i can get and this just hit my top 10 list
Thank you so much
Great job! I finally got Dreamweaver 8, Flash 8 and Fireworks 8 all working. Thanks a lot for the how-to and contributions from some great people above.
To the people who have issues with Fireworks 8
Just go to http://www.dll-files.com amd download the file gdiplus.dll
copy it to your system32 folder under “wine”
eg. /home/your-name/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/
Fireworks 8 should work after that
If you are able to install Tahoma font for Linux you will see them look like 99% as working in windows :-).
Good luck to all
Worked great on feisty fawn 7.04 on a Dell Inspiron 5100 P4 2.66 512 ram, thanks!!!!!
GUYS, if you get the wine: could not load L”c:\\windows\\system32\\dreamweaver.exe”: Module not found error, just open wine and then open browse to dreamweaver.exe !! Do not actually type “wine dreamweaver.exe” in terminal. Worked for me ! hope it helps
Thanks for the great howto. Worked like a charm in Festy Fawn too.
I was also able to setup (native)FireFox and Konqueror as my default browsers for Dreamweaver. I have written a little howto that can now be found on the Ubuntu Forums for anyone who’s interested.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=432399&highlight=dreamweaver
Thanks again,
Westin
well this isnt working for me either. I get the initial screen and then initializing files and the application closes. Here is the output from the terminal display. Can anyone help with this problem.
Thanks,
les…
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0×33f7a0,0×00000000), stub!
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0×000007e0 at address 0×7e0 (thread 0009), starting debugger…
Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0×000007e0 in 32-bit code (0×000007e0).
Register dump:
CS:0073 SS:007b DS:007b ES:007b FS:0033 GS:003b
EIP:000007e0 ESP:0033e7d8 EBP:00000000 EFLAGS:00010216( - 00 -RIAP1)
EAX:0000010a EBX:000003ef ECX:00000014 EDX:00000014
ESI:00001fdc EDI:32175510
Stack dump:
0×0033e7d8: 0000001f 00001fdc 0033e948 0033e8d0
0×0033e7e8: 00000014 0328ad08 32110353 00001fc0
0×0033e7f8: 000003ef 00000000 0328aa80 0328aa80
0×0033e808: 0033e948 01000000 00ccb2a3 0328ab9c
0×0033e818: 00000000 7c34218a 01707a34 00000000
0×0033e828: 00000000 32159078 00001fcc 00000000
All useful links here for all those people getting the MFC42.DLL missing error. I got it all working. Thanks everyone.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine/browse_thread/thread/96763d73a0cfc9df/261776ca7c44293f
I got help from the above link. MFC 42 also needs support from MFC 40 it seems, anyways…….. Rock on!
I have the same problem as Les Joy. New to Linux, please help!
Excellent tutorial, works on ubuntu 7.04 64 bit a treat.. just made my life so much easier..
Thank you
Thanks for this! with a little effort over 2 nights, not the it took me that long but with my available time it worked! Dreamweaver and Flash working on Debian Lenny. Fireworks fired up but dies, so I’ll keep working on that one, but DooooWs! is now fastly becoming a thing of the past….
Hi a all tank’s for the grat howto… I have a small problem, I don’t understand this ……
In your Windowx box, type “regedit” in the command-line and export the whole “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Macromedia/” to “macromedia.reg”, then copy it to your your Ubuntu and convert it to ascii with “$ recode ucs-2..ascii macromedia.reg”. Afterwards, type “$ sudo wine regedit macromedia.reg” to run it with wine.
Without this my flash starting… loading the font …y it vanishes……..can anyone help mi………
tank’s
sorry for my English
for anyone that’s getting an activation error/reinstall dreamweaver just redo the common files step. that should fix it.
Hey, i thought i added the registry and ran it, it said “A problem was detected with your application. Please reinstall this software to correct the problem.” when i ran Flash.
Do i need to copy everything again?
Also, is there another folder i need to copy besides those mentioned in the howto? Somebody said they need to copy their “feature”folder.
Thanks
Andy
Never mind my last comment. It’s working now, but I can’t make new documents. When i press “new flash file” it does nothing and brings me back to the same screen, and when i open an existing one it says “could not open document!”.
What is this?
No he entendido una cosa…la instalaciòn tiene que ser hecha tambièn en ubuntu?ademàs…si yo por ejemplo en mi lap-top tengo solo linux,y cojiera los files que dices de cojer desde otro ordenador con Windows XP y dream weaver 8 ya presente la cosa funcionaria?TENGO SOLO LINUX EN ESTE!
I have few suggestions which worked for me on feisty and flash 8 with wine:
- After you install flash 8 as above with suggestions above, if still having problems, you can check these:
1. After exporting your XP Macromedia registry, use SciTe to save it as 8 bit encoding format. Then, you dont need to use recode. It works.
2. After step 1 above, if you have still problems such as flash pro splashes on start and then terminates, it is possible that you installed Default debt as 16.
Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf to change it to 24.
awesome write up, works great for me on 7.04
it worked perfectly with my 7.04…
I only had some little problems… first, a can’t publish (ctrl + F12) or even open the “publish settings” box… it says that something about the “HTML templates”.
And another thing is that when I “ctrl+enter” to see my movie, it says that there is missing the “Arial Baltic” font, but even in Windows I don’t have this font.
Any idea?
Thanks and congrats again for the helpful topic.
I followed instructions on 64-bit Fiesty, but got “Macromedia Product Activation - Please reinstall your software…” etc
Anybody got it working on 64-bit?
I did copy the Application data folder as directed.
It looks tantalisingly close!
@matt: I had the same problem. Here’s what I would do. Try entering your actual registration key (looks like dwd0343-xxxxxx-xxxxx-xx [WITH the dashes]) inside of the wine registry in [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Macromedia\Dreamweaver\8\Registration] and see what happens. My problem was then that the app would work, but I was unable to save without taking care of the “Product Registration” window, thus greatly reducing usability.
If that doesn’t fully work (as it didn’t in my case), make sure on your windows installation, you have run DW at least once, and properly activated it with a valid serial key. Then, when you examine the registry from your windows box, the “Cached Serial Number” value will be empty. Instead, make sure you copy the files from Application Data\All Users\Macromedia\Licensing\Products\Dreamweaver 8.0, which includes some .mlf (macromedia license file?) files which have your unique information and should allow the app to run smoothly.
HTH,
lance
Some problems might occur with the recoding of the macromedia.reg file into ASCII. If you get any errors (like I did on Fedora Core 6), try the following commands instead of “recode ucs-2..ascii macromedia.reg”:
recode ucs-2-internal macromedia.reg
recode unicode..ascii macromedia.reg
Other than that it seems to work fine. Thanks for the help!
I’ve just upgraded to wine 0.9.43 and find that Fireworks8 has started to work fine. It even integrates with DW8. It does not seem to work with CX 6.1 which based on an older version of wine.
After a run dreamwaver and choose betwenn the coder view or desiner view a get this message: “Please reintall your software” “A problem was detected with your aplication. Please reintall the sofware to correct this problem”. Some can help me please!!!
This works like a charm! Thanks for putting this together!
it works for feisty fawn,too !
(haven´t used it much, but it starts and looks as usual)
the issue with dreamweaver for me was not dll’s it was activation…so i just downloaded a cracked version of cs3 dreamweaver cracked..and yes i have dreamweaver liscense so dont email me about that…after that wine opened it with default settings…i am running ubuntu 7.10 gnome installed off livecd. However i have notice that the “insert, common, layout, forms..etc buttons at the top have not icons..i can still click them and get the desired result..but its kinda hard knowing which one to click without the icon there, though i can just mouseover and get a display of what it is.
Hi,
tried to get it running on Mandrake 10.2 (with wine 0.9.49) but i keep getting the following errors:
fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L”Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls”
fixme:winspool:AddPrinterDriverExW Flags 0×8 ignored (Fallback to APD_COPY_ALL_FILES)
fixme:winspool:AddPrinterDriverExW ### DrvDriverEvent(…,DRIVEREVENT_INITIALIZE) not implemented yet
fixme:winspool:AddPrinterDriverExW Flags 0×8 ignored (Fallback to APD_COPY_ALL_FILES)
fixme:winspool:AddPrinterDriverExW ### DrvDriverEvent(…,DRIVEREVENT_INITIALIZE) not implemented yet
and the programs splash window saying “please reinstall the application… there was some error”
I’d be very pleased of some help.
(The windows installation i copied was made on a vista ultimate system so im not completely shure if the folder structure was right)
Thanks for your great howto
and thanks in advance for some help with my problem (i’d prefere email contact if possible)
works fine on Mandrake 10.1 as well.
Thanks for a great HowTo.
P.S. Dont try to copy the files from a Vista installation.. doesn’t work
Hi Guys, thanks luis, for this tutorial, this is really working!.
see you !!
I’ve installed my legal copy of WinXP in qemu followed by DW CS3. (You need 512M of ram in qemu for CS3, not for DW8.) When you copy the files similarly to above as described in http://www.openaddict.com/node/25 it works fine.
So it should work for DW8 etc. as well. No need to load up a partition with WinXP.
It also works copying files from Win4LinPro.
Should work in ParallelsWorkstation too.
I got Dreamweaver to work without all of this migration trouble!
http://gamerssoft.com/index.php?page=blog&article=dreamweaver
Thanks Luis!
I’ve now successfully installed Flash 8 on Ubuntu Gutsy and it runs perfectly, even faster than it did on Windows. I’m still looking forward to the Flash 9 release for Linux though, any plans at Adobe?
I resisted linux for years, but it was only because of the fact you couldn’t run Flash Studio. Now I’ve switched all my work to a Ubuntu machine and I won’t turn back. Ver y reliable and looks really slick!
Using the terminal didn’t work, I got the error messages that many of you got!
However, I created an application launcher on my desktop linking to /home/servername/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Macromedia/Dreamweaver.exe
that seemed to work flawlessly!
Thanks for the great tutorial!
does this How To work on gibbon and/or feisty?
Its awesome man, working perfect,
Thank for the tip.
Jocuri
Hi
I also tried to install flash 8 on ubuntu 7.04, but it doesn’t work. I tried to install with Wine, it’s OK, but when I would liked to registering, but site wrote that the serial ins’t good.
when i try to open a .fla file the software writes> Failed to open document
thanx the answer
on ubuntu 7.10 not 7.04
Hi.
I have this error when I type “wine dreamweaver.exe”:
err:module:import_dll Library gdiplus.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\windows\\system32\\dreamweaver.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library xerces-c_2_6.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\windows\\system32\\dreamweaver.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library Fireworks Library.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\windows\\system32\\dreamweaver.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library NetIO.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\windows\\system32\\dreamweaver.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library icuuc30.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\windows\\system32\\dreamweaver.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library CoreTypes.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\windows\\system32\\dreamweaver.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library LIBEAY32.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\windows\\system32\\dreamweaver.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library SSLEAY32.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\windows\\system32\\dreamweaver.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library LIBCURL.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\windows\\system32\\dreamweaver.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library ahclient.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\windows\\system32\\dreamweaver.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library Workspace.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\windows\\system32\\dreamweaver.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library MFC80U.DLL (which is needed by L”C:\\windows\\system32\\dreamweaver.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library MSVCR80.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\windows\\system32\\dreamweaver.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library MSVCP80.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\windows\\system32\\dreamweaver.exe”) not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L”C:\\windows\\system32\\dreamweaver.exe” failed, status c0000135
WTF?
Please, help me.
Thanks for the instructions, they were very helpful to me.
I was wondering if there’s a way that Flash and dreamweaver CS3 might work on Ubuntu 8.0
Thanks Again,
WOW THANKS!!! this was a really great help!
i ran into a few problems but got it in the end!
Thanks for a great guide. I had trouble installing Studio 8 using the traditional MSI installer method (i.e. in Windows-fashion, straight into WINE). This is a fantastic and easy method to follow.
For that finishing touch, why not add some desktop icons?
http://anexos.deviantart.com/art/Macromedia-Studio-8-dock-icons-30562141
So I just got flash pro 8… I have ubuntu 8.04. Do I need to replace that with ubuntu dapper or is there any way to make it work on the 8.04?
What version of Wine were you using when getting flash pro 8 and dreamweaver working on Dapper?
Thanks. I’m new to linux and just installed WUBI. Do you know if this will work under WUBI as well?
thanks bro…
Hi after differets test i have find the solution for Dreamwaver CS3 and it working fine !!!
read the first article on first
after copy folder ( in adobe programe files ) common and adobe extansion manager in your win folder programme file adobe
——————-
copy t’is file in program file adobe dreamwaver
find and copy ( replace if exist) DWEMLaunch.dll,
Microsoft.VC80.CRT.
for run creat a link in you desktop
link:
wine ‘/home/gfpl/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Adobe/Adobe Dreamweaver CS3/Dreamweaver.exe’
folder
/home/gfpl/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Adobe/Adobe Dreamweaver CS3/
if you recive a splash screen for MM
find t’is file an put in first line :
function MM()
{
}
save work fine
Hey
can i use same technique for Flash CS4 also