How to install Acrobat professional 8 using wine in ubuntu 12.04

Question

I have installed wine1.6 in the ubuntu 12.04 and tried to install Acrobat professional 8 using wine1.6. At the near completion of installation process, installation process gets aborted and it says setup interrupted. Does wine1.6 support Acrobat Professional 8? Please help.

Answer 1

1. WINE WAY

First of all, I would update wine to newer version...but that might not be necessary.

1. You need Windows (at least in VM)
2. running copy of Adobe Pro 8 on that copy of windows (That's because there is some bug, which prevents wine to copy files to desired directory and you need to do it manually)

You need to copy a few registry entries from there for Acrobat to work. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> Software -> Adobe Right click on the Adobe folder and select Export, and name this file acrobat.reg.
If you did not configure wine already, Run the following to create your own .wine folder.

winecfg (make sure to run winecfg from the command line if you make any changes or updates to wine)

The Windows regedit export file you just created, "acrobat.reg", is a native windows app and has a few Windows based dependencies. You need to use winetricks from the command line to install these. Execute the following (or use GUI, whatever suits you more):

winetricks msxml6
winetricks gdiplus
winetricks gecko
winetricks vcrun2005
winetricks vcrun2008
winetricks msxml3
winetricks atmlib

Copy the following files from the Windows installation into the .wine directory on Linux.

C\Program Files\Adobe\ ----> $HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Adobe
C\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe ----> $HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Common Files/Adobe
C\Documents and Settings\$USER\Application Data\Adobe ----> $HOME/.wine/drive_c/users/$USER/Applications Data/Adobe
C\windows\system32\odbcint.dll ----> $HOME/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/odbcint.dll

Once that's done, copy over your acrobat.reg file from your Windows machine to your home directory and execute the command below.

wine regedit acrobat.reg

That will import the registry entries into the wine registry.

To test it out, go to go to Home -> .wine -> drive_c -> Program Files -> Adobe ->Acrobat with your favorite shell and right click on the Acrobat.exe and select "Open with Wine".

There is also way with patching wine source, so it bypasses that bug with copying problem, but I guess this might be easier!

I've made version 10 working with similar steps

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2. VB SEAMLESS MODE WAY

• Install VB with extensions (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads)
• Install Windows on it (I have used Tiny XP rev 11 because it runs on 100 mb of RAM + it's fast and we don't want windows to take more... quick google search should do)
• Install Guest Additions (So we can make shared folder (etc.) work)
• If you are not able to get your resolution higher even after installing Guest Additions try switching between full screen Host + F, seamless mode Host + L and Auto resize Host + G - did the trick for me
• install Adobe Acrobat Pro as you would normally do on Windows
• set windows task bar to auto hide, after that go to Machine -> Settings -> General -> Advanced and check Show Mini Toolbar in Seamless Mode.
• Unmount Guest Additions as it would cause issues, because of what we're going to do (I've tried)
• run your application
• press Host + L to get to seamless mode
• Now we're going to save machine state, not power it off (click X on VB minitoolbar or press Host + Q), that's because it starts with your application opened and in seamless mode by default (just let it switch on the next run and select "don't show this message again"), I'm sure that it is possible to start application on VM startup (probably msconfig) with seamless mode, without need of saving machine state, but for me that is good enough. Make sure you unmount Guest Additions before this step as it would make your VM inaccessible (it's fixable, but why bother...)

Now for the desktop entry (if you have any trouble with it check: Creating a .desktop file for a new application):

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Adobe Acrobat Pro
Exec=VBoxManage startvm "name-of-your-vm"
Icon=path/to/your/desired/icon
Type=Application
StartupWMClass=VirtualBox
Categories=Office;

It probably loads a little slower than via WINE, but this way it's more stable I guess. Plus it can be used for ANY application

It will look something like this(you can theme both wine and VM):

Answer 2

I have installed wine1.7 only. And then I ran Acrobat professional 8.0 setup.exe and program is installed without any hitch.