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@latepaul. First of all congratulations. But I agree. Must be one of the most painful ways to install ever. And the size is absolutely ridiculous. Unfortunately, there is little alternative for those of us who run Linux and want to use this ridiculous system. I can't recall reading a single book using ADE. I'm not a fan ot the program.
I'll still have a look at installation on Ubuntu based systems when I get the chance. I would like to see this working easily for everyone. One thing your experience shows is that it seems technically not only feasible but easy to simply distribute a working .adewine prefix directory with ADE installed but not authorised. In theory this should work on any distro with a suitable version of wine. Unfortunately, I suspect this would violate all sorts of licence agreements. Though perhaps it would be okay to help someone having particular trouble by creating such a wineprefix directory for them at their request and as their "agent". Of course, it would need to actually be created anew on their behalf rather than simply distributing a pre-prepared one. Not a feasible mass solution, but possibly okay for someone having real trouble.
Another possible solution is to use a live cd of a distribution known to work to produce the working wineprefix. A lot of work to achieve a simple result.
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