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darryl · 11-09-2018, 08:48 PM

Thanks DiapDealer. No doubt I'll end up playing around with Docker one day, but not for ADE.

@patdavid. I think you're right. For the moment the best course seems to be just keeping the instructions up to date as long as possible. I would suggest we all keep a copy of the ADE Installer and pre-requisities for our own use. The link for ADE is currently from an archive.org snapshot of Adobe's download page, so who knows how long it will last. I also think there is probably little demand for extensive work on scripts and containers and the like to make it easier for the masses who can't or won't follow a relatively simple procedure or who are allergic to the shell. In fact, I don't think there are any such masses. Linux users who love reading ebooks, care about DRM and want ADE on their boxes are I suspect a tiny group to start with. I think we have done enough to make it easy for each other and hopefully will continue to solve problems as required. I for one am happy to assist anyone who does encounter problems so long as they are willing and able to help themselves. The instructions as they stand or the ones on Pat's blog should be sufficient even for a Linux newbie to get things working, particularly with help from this forum. Hand holding can go only so far. It is not rocket science to copy and paste a few commands, extract a cab or copy a few dll files. Nor to post error messages if things go wrong.

I followed the instructions to install into a Mint VM and they worked flawlessly, including the copying of the dll's. I'm fairly happy with their current state. So far we have no reports of failures with the updated version.

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darryl Wizard Posts: 3,108 Karma: 60231510 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Aura H2O, Kindle Oasis, Huwei Ascend Mate 7	Thanks DiapDealer. No doubt I'll end up playing around with Docker one day, but not for ADE. @patdavid. I think you're right. For the moment the best course seems to be just keeping the instructions up to date as long as possible. I would suggest we all keep a copy of the ADE Installer and pre-requisities for our own use. The link for ADE is currently from an archive.org snapshot of Adobe's download page, so who knows how long it will last. I also think there is probably little demand for extensive work on scripts and containers and the like to make it easier for the masses who can't or won't follow a relatively simple procedure or who are allergic to the shell. In fact, I don't think there are any such masses. Linux users who love reading ebooks, care about DRM and want ADE on their boxes are I suspect a tiny group to start with. I think we have done enough to make it easy for each other and hopefully will continue to solve problems as required. I for one am happy to assist anyone who does encounter problems so long as they are willing and able to help themselves. The instructions as they stand or the ones on Pat's blog should be sufficient even for a Linux newbie to get things working, particularly with help from this forum. Hand holding can go only so far. It is not rocket science to copy and paste a few commands, extract a cab or copy a few dll files. Nor to post error messages if things go wrong. I followed the instructions to install into a Mint VM and they worked flawlessly, including the copying of the dll's. I'm fairly happy with their current state. So far we have no reports of failures with the updated version.