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.
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