When I got to work this morning I was captain apathetic. I had no desire to do anything at all computer related. I decided that I needed to jump start my day so I dug up a copy of a how-to that covered running Dreamweaver 8 on Ubuntu that I had read a while back but never attempted. I’m running Fedora 5 on this machine at work and I figured since I keep wine up to date on this machine (version 0.9.21 at the time of this writing) that I could get it done here too. Well, it worked! I made a few changes, they’re noted below.
The how-to is located at http://blog.publicidadpixelada.com/2006/07/30/how-to-dreamweaver-running-on-ubuntu-in-10-easy-steps/.
My changes:
In step 6: I copied the files to “/home/YOURNAME/.wine/drive_c/windows/profile/all users/Application Data/”
In step 9: I tried the “$ recode ucs-2..ascii macromedia.reg”, but it failed (recode: macromedia.reg failed: Untranslatable input in step `ISO-10646-UCS-2..ANSI_X3.4-1968‘). I just ignored it and imported the registry entries without the conversion.
After that, I created a launcher pointing to wine ‘/home/[user name]/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Dreamweaver 8/Dreamweaver.exe’ and defined my site. I made a quick change to an html file, uploaded it to the webserver and did a little victory dance. This is the first time I’ve run an application in wine that worked as I hoped that it would. I haven’t done anything taxing in the application yet, if I find problems later I’ll post about them.
I think I’m going to try installing Dreamweaver from the install CD next. If that works out for me I’ll post a detailed how-to.
October 23rd, 2006 at 2:02 am
Interesting p0st, I kn0w many pe0ple that will l0ve this tut0rial, m0stly web devel0pers wh0 biggest grief i n0t having dreamweaver.
0nce said that I am a big user 0f Quanta and I think that i a really great t00l and there is n0 need f0r dreamweaver.
I d0 need a new keyb0ard with the butt0n ’0′
October 23rd, 2006 at 6:33 am
I haven’t played with quanta since FC4, it crashed on my constantly. I should see if it’s still being developed. I’d give it another shot
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Another nice tool is nvu. I’ve only played with it a bit. I’ll most likely move to a linux native app. Thanks for the comment, I’ll give quanta another look.
nahh you should keep that board, just tell everyone you’re too 1337 for “o”
M@
August 12th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
Sorry, I guess I’m a total newb. How do I import a registry item to linux and where do I put it. Can you help?