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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
As things currently stand, only the earliest beta-version(s) of K4PC will work with Wine. Even if you get one of the newer versions to actually open and function, incompatibilities with the CryptUnprotectData dll's and the Volume Serial generation used by Wine will not allow the proper parsing of the kindle.info file. You may be able to copy true windows dll's and configure Wine to use them. But I've been down that road one, by one, by one measly dll at a time with no luck.
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I'm not 100% sure of this, but I think the version I was finally able to download and use was K4PC 1.01. The maddening thing to me is, I can't see a dime's worth of difference between the versions.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
It's a shame really. The Kindle itself runs on Linux, yet Amazon won't release a version of K4* that's compatible with Linux. Every other device and piece of hardware out there, but.... gah! I'm rambling.  |
It's astonishing to me. Well, okay, it's not
that astonishing, but it's still annoying. TiVo does the same thing. The damn box is Linux, but they won't release a TiVo Desktop for Linux. At least with the TiVo, though, there are open source alternatives. I assume the reason there aren't alternatives for K4PC is because of the file format and DRM issues (although TiVo recordings are also DRM'd...).