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Old 10-29-2018, 10:46 PM   #51
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I've now updated the wiki to reflect a number of changes. Pat David's successful install on Ubuntu as reflected here and in his blog posts lead to an additional troubleshooting section incorporating a solution to the problem he experienced on Ubuntu with winecodecs failing to properly install the dll's. Other changes:

I substituted the link to the full dotnet 3.5 sp1 installer rather than the net installer, which was very slow and problematic for some. I also mentioned that some people have reported success installing dotnet with the wineprefix verb, which I myself had found problematic when developing the original procedures.

I updated the download link to ADE 2.0.1 itself, as the previous link seems to have vanished from the Adobe website. It now downloads from a previous version of the page on archive.org. I would strongly suggest keeping a downloaded copy, as this may become much harder to obtain in the future.

I included a troubleshooting section on installing lib32-gnutls, and removed the original Caution, as it seems to be clear that this procedure is working on most distributions for most people.

On a broader note we seem to be very fortunate at the moment that most of the relevant Windows software seems to be working. I'm currently successfully running on Linux by way of Wine ADE 2.0.1, Cloud Library, Kobo Desktop (working well with OBok on my Linux calibre install), Overdrive for Windows (using for library Audiobooks) and of course Kindle For PC. Most install easily. Some do required a little work, most notably ADE and Kobo Desktop. We can only hope this continues for as long as possible as none of these programs seem to have a Linux version on the horizon, and continual updates to both Windows and the programs occur.

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