ADE alternative for Linux

[edent]

Exception code : 0x1003
Message        : E_AUTH_FAILED http://adeactivate.adobe.com/adept/SignInDirect me@example.com CUS05051

My password contains special characters like &%$ - is there anything special I need to do for that to work?

*edit*
I've changed my password to remove special characters and I still get the same error.

[soutade]

Originally Posted by edent

Exception code : 0x1003
Message        : E_AUTH_FAILED http://adeactivate.adobe.com/adept/SignInDirect me@example.com CUS05051

My password contains special characters like &%$ - is there anything special I need to do for that to work?

*edit*
I've changed my password to remove special characters and I still get the same error.

You can try with option "-p" (or not). Is your AdobeID email correct (the one in your comment is not) ? I validated this part with a password containing "!" character, so it's strange...
I had this kind of error when my account was not fully validated in adobe.com

[edent]

Originally Posted by soutade

You can try with option "-p" (or not). Is your AdobeID email correct (the one in your comment is not) ? I validated this part with a password containing "!" character, so it's strange...
I had this kind of error when my account was not fully validated in adobe.com

Using the `-p` flag worked! Very strange. Thanks :-)

[Leseratte_10]

Just found this library a couple days ago. Finally there's a working ADE replacement for Linux.

Though, I found two slight bugs in acsmdownloader. The first one is when I try to export the private key to a particular file like this: "acsmdownloader -d device.xml -a activation.xml -k devicesalt -o output.der -e" Then I get the following error:

Exception code : 0x1004
Message : Unable to open

When I leave out the "-o output.der" then everything works.

The 2nd bug is a typo in the help output "Usage:" line. That one says the short form for "--device-key-file" would be "-s" but according to the help (and the source code) it seems to be "-k" instead.

Also, not sure if people would be interested in that, but I decided to create a Calibre plugin that includes libgourou so that you can configure your ADE account in the Calibre settings and just drag-and-drop your ACSM file into Calibre. If you're interested in that, here it is: https://github.com/Leseratte10/acsm-calibre-plugin

Though that plugin is for Linux only. Did you ever test compiling libgourou for Windows or for Mac? It'd be cool to have support for Windows and Mac in that plugin, too, so Windows users wouldn't need ADE either, but I don't know enough C++ to figure out why that fails.

[Leseratte_10]

Also (sorry for double post but I can no longer edit my previous post) I seem to be unable to compile static versions. When I run "make BUILD_STATIC=1 STATIC_UTILS=1" I get
"undefined reference to symbol 'inflateEnd'"
and
"error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line".

[Leseratte_10]

And another post, I just tested this with a PDF from Adobe's Sample Library (https://www.adobe.com/de/solutions/e...k-library.html) - "The Goodbye Summer" and that didn't seem to work.

There's no error message, but it seems to not write the encryption key to the PDF correctly.

[soutade]

Thanks for testing libgourou. I fixed all errors you reported and uploaded a new compiled version of libgourou (v0.4.1).

[Leseratte_10]

Thanks for the bugfixes. Though I still can't compile a static version of the util tools, now I'm getting a different error when running "make BUILD_STATIC=1 STATIC_UTILS=1":

Spoiler:

$ LC_ALL=C make BUILD_STATIC=1 STATIC_UTILS=1
make -C utils ROOT=/tmp/kp/libgourou CXX=g++ AR=ar DEBUG= STATIC_UTILS=1
make[1]: Entering directory '/tmp/kp/libgourou/utils'
g++ -Wall `pkg-config --cflags Qt5Core Qt5Network` -fPIC -I/tmp/kp/libgourou/include -I/tmp/kp/libgourou/lib/pugixml/src/ -O2 drmprocessorclientimpl.cpp acsmdownloader.cpp `pkg-config --libs Qt5Core Qt5Network` -L/tmp/kp/libgourou -lcrypto -lzip -lz /tmp/kp/libgourou/libgourou.a -o acsmdownloader
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/kp/libgourou/libgourou.a(libgourou.o): in function `gourou::DRMProcessor::download(gourou::FulfillmentItem*, std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >)':
libgourou.cpp:(.text+0x6727): undefined reference to `vtable for uPDFParser::Dictionary'
/usr/bin/ld: libgourou.cpp:(.text+0x68c3): undefined reference to `uPDFParser::Parser::parse(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)'
/usr/bin/ld: libgourou.cpp:(.text+0x6c2b): undefined reference to `vtable for uPDFParser::Dictionary'
/usr/bin/ld: libgourou.cpp:(.text+0x6cd9): undefined reference to `vtable for uPDFParser::Dictionary'
/usr/bin/ld: libgourou.cpp:(.text+0x6e47): undefined reference to `vtable for uPDFParser::Dictionary'
/usr/bin/ld: libgourou.cpp:(.text+0x701d): undefined reference to `uPDFParser::String::String(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)'
/usr/bin/ld: libgourou.cpp:(.text+0x7506): undefined reference to `uPDFParser::String::String(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)'
/usr/bin/ld: libgourou.cpp:(.text+0x7704): undefined reference to `uPDFParser::String::String(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)'
/usr/bin/ld: libgourou.cpp:(.text+0x78ad): undefined reference to `uPDFParser::Parser::write(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, bool)'
/usr/bin/ld: libgourou.cpp:(.text+0x78d5): undefined reference to `vtable for uPDFParser::Dictionary'
/usr/bin/ld: libgourou.cpp:(.text+0x79a1): undefined reference to `vtable for uPDFParser::Dictionary'
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/kp/libgourou/libgourou.a(libgourou.o): in function `gourou::DRMProcessor::download(gourou::FulfillmentItem*, std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >) [clone .cold]':
libgourou.cpp:(.text.unlikely+0x1845): undefined reference to `vtable for uPDFParser::Dictionary'
/usr/bin/ld: libgourou.cpp:(.text.unlikely+0x187c): undefined reference to `vtable for uPDFParser::Dictionary'
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/kp/libgourou/libgourou.a(libgourou.o): in function `uPDFParser::Parser::~Parser()':
libgourou.cpp:(.text._ZN10uPDFParser6ParserD2Ev[_ZN10uPDFParser6ParserD5Ev]+0x2e): undefined reference to `vtable for uPDFParser::Dictionary'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [Makefile:21: acsmdownloader] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/kp/libgourou/utils'
make: *** [Makefile:63: build_utils] Error 2

EDIT: Also, it seems like your source code website http://indefero.soutade.fr/ is a bit buggy, whenever I try to edit my profile page I always get HTTP 500.

[soutade]

All fixed now.

[droopy]

Originally Posted by soutade

Hello everybody,

If (like me), you're fed up to reboot on Windows in order to launch ADE or use a very old version in combination to WINE, you're at the right place !

After a long reverse engineering work, I created a library that is a free implementation of ADEPT protocol. It also contains two (command line) utils allowing you to create a new device, register it to Adobe's servers and download ePub from ACSM request files.

You can find sources & binaries here : http://indefero.soutade.fr/p/libgourou

Cheers


Grégory

hi Gregory. I've been using ADE 2.0.1 (installed through Lutris) on my Linux Mint. But for about two weeks now, I've been having problems with it (When I drag and drop an ACSM file onto it, it says "Connection Error Detected"). So I'm glad to see your post.
I've downloaded your libgourou_utils_0.4.1.tgz and extracted the files. I read the readme.md file, I'm sorry... how do I use it?

[soutade]

Hi droopy,

As mentioned into the README, you have two steps. Open a terminal and,
first, create a "device" (Public/Private key pairs) with the following command :

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$PWD
./activate -u <AdobeID USERNAME>

Then (a .adept directory is created), you can download your ePub with :

./acsmdownloader -f <ACSM_FILE>

[ReadOnLinux]

When trying to load a pdf book, I get the error

Exception code : 0x1004
Message : Unable to create LinuxUser (12/2021)

perhaps as the title contains the slash character. But when using the "-o x.pdf" switch, I get the error

Download into x.pdf
Exception code : 0x5007
Message : Invalid zip file x.pdf

Ok, a epub file is a zip file but a pdf is not. The pdf file is downloaded but defective (cannot be opened even with ADE).

How can I solve this problem?

[ReadOnLinux]

Some more information:
I downloaded the same book using ADE and compared both files. As a result both are nearly identical. The ADE file has a 11 line trailer containing

6891 0 obj
<</EBX_PUBLISHER(some text)/Filter/E...
endobj
xref
6891 1
0011111111 00000 n
trailer
<</Root 1 0 R/Info 5 0 R/Encrypt 6891 0 R/ID[<...
startxref
11111111
%%EOF

[ReadOnLinux]

Some more information:
The Object (e.g. 6891 0) has to be put a 2nd time with the "ADEPT_LICENSE" block. It seems that these informations (see e.g. src/libgourou.cpp (*ebx) in line 641) are not appended to the downloaded pdf file. But you know your code better than I do.

[soutade]

Hello,

It's a mismatch, libgourou should detect a PDF file, but it assume it's an epub.
Can you send me ACSM file for analyze ?