@Pat,
Earlier in this process I considered distributing the wineprefix which I decided was not feasible for licensing reasons. It would be great to be able to make this all easy for everyone with a Docker image. However, latepaul went down this track and decided it was a dead end.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...5&postcount=27
But even if he is wrong on this there licensing would prevent it. Since most problems reported involved the installation into the wineprefix things would be a lot easier for many if we could just make a complete .adewine prefix available for download. Unfortunately, ADE is proprietary software, as are the Microsoft programs we install with this procedure. Even though they are freely downloadable and free to use we simply don't have permission to distribute them. I suspect such permission would not be forthcoming even if we requested it, particularly as we would be distributing not the binaries but fully installed packages with the end user not having been required to accept the license agreements.
Forgive me for quoting myself but I discussed this issue in #32 in this thread.
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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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Unfortunately licensing is a problem which I think precludes us distributing either a wineprefix or a docker container.