wine + Photoshop CS/8

doykati · Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 8:50 pm Post subject: wine + Photoshop CS/8

Hi,

I try to install Photoshop CS with wine. I just emerged wine, and tried to install Photoshop but I couldn't start the install:

Lokheed · Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 12:04 am Post subject:

Photoshop CS isnt supported by Wine. 7.0 works fine but dont hold your breath on CS ever truly being emulated by Wine. Since the CS series, Adobe has put in all that wonderful key validation service. I forget the technical name they use, but it runs as a windows service. Since Wine simply provides the necessary DLLs and registry entries for Windows programs, it doesnt support running of Windows services and that is a requirement of the CS suite. It loads everytime Photoshop loads, checks your registry key then unloads. I am sure if that feature wasnt there, it would already be supported but no one has even got it running and because of this, I dont think they ever will.

Adobe has actually started to look at Linux as a possible place to bring their suites too, whether they do it or not will remain to be seen but with Longhorn set to debut in 2007, they might actually consider it...but at this point no matter how much "Wine hacking" you do, CS is simply not supported...sorry, I too feel your woes using Gimp to replace Photoshop.

If you do want to use PSD 7.0 install Wine 20040716...the later releases are service releases and if you read the relase info at winehq, they tell you programs to run well at all on them. I found this out the hardware as PSD would freeze, lockup and Wine itself would fail...not to mention PSD ran like a slug.

doykati · Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 8:42 am Post subject:

Thank you for your reply with good explanations. I will install the 7.0 instead.

Lokheed · Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 8:51 am Post subject:

Welcome. v7.0 works OK. It is sometimes slow and a little glitchy but its the best you are going to get.

I dont know how familiar you are with Photoshop or whether you know about the tab key being able to hide all your tools because you are going to need it. The tools in PSD are locked as always on top which gets really annoying after a while Use the tab key to hide them whenever you minimize PSD or need the real estate.

Check out winehq on some other tips they have for PSD7.0. The only plus is unlike CS where you are stuck installing all components of PSD whether you like it or not, in v7.0, you can pick and choose what you want to install or leave out.

Oh, ImageReady doesnt work in Wine, just Photoshop...

taikuri · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 12:31 am Post subject:

I got very close to getting Photoshop CS to work!

I used the instructions found here: http://appdb.winehq.com/appview.php?appId=17

1. Installed it on Windows XP
2. Exported the registry branch HKLM/Software/Microsoft/CurrentVersion/Uninstall/EFB21DE7... to a .reg file
3. In linux, copied the folder over to the fake C drive.
4. Added the contents of the .reg-file to system.reg, and changed [HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{EFB21DE7-8C19-4A88-BB28-A766E16493BC}] to [SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{EFB21DE7-8C19-4A88-BB28-A766E16493BC}]
5. Edited wine.conf: winver=win2k
6. Ran "wine Photoshop.exe"

Photoshop started very slowly ("loading plugins/presets" took forever), loaded all the tool bars, but then I got an error message saying: "Memory could not be allocated for the activation process. Please close all applications and try again."

Does anyone have an idea how to fix this? I am getting sooo close! Some of the users at winehq have even gotten it to run using these instructions.
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