Hi. Followed the procedure it failed to install the dotnet framework.
Code:
$ wine --version
wine-2.1 (Staging)
$ winetricks --version
20170101 - sha1sum: 47c8d3524168fe9102d21cea88640b28084332d3
This is on Linux Mint 18.1. I can post the wine errors if you really want.
By the way, you say at the top of the article that ADE version 1.7.2 is no longer working. It works for me. I tested it again this morning just to confirm. I downloaded an acsm file from my Kobo account, opened it with ADE and it downloaded the book and displayed it.
Was there something else that no longer works?