I own Photoshop CS2 and have it installed on a Windows XP Laptop. This is the only computer I have it on. I don't think I am violating any copy rights as long as I don't run photoshop on the laptop at the same time I run it on the Ubuntu Box.
I've been trying to get Photoshop CS2 to run on Ubuntu. I have had limited success. Here's what I've done so far;
1. I've installed WINE and it's working fine.
2. I copied my entire Adobe Directory from the MS Windows XP Laptop to a Flash Drive (950mbs)(c:\program files\adobe)
3. I've EXPORTED the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Adobe/" Registery Key from the MS Window Machine to a file call adobe.reg (on the windows machine run REGEDIT navigate to the above key, select it, and then chose FILE/EXPORT it will asked for a name I used ADOBE)
4. I copied this new file (adobe.reg) to the flash drive.
5. I copied all the Adobe files from the flash drive (from c:\program files\adobe) to my Ubuntu Box and put them in the home\USERNAME\.wine\dirve_c\Program Files\Adobe\ driecroty
6. I then copied the adobe.reg file to the same directory
7. I then started TERMINAL and navigated to home\USERNAME\.wine\dirve_c\Program Files\Adobe\
8. I then ran wine regedit adobe.reg to import the registry settings into WINE.
9. I then navigated to the home\USERNAME\.wine\dirve_c\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS2\ directory and ran wine Photoshop.exe command in TERMINAL
It took about 2 to 3 minutes but Photoshop CS2 started but gave an error saying that the serial number or activation code was wrong. (The start time is long. I thought it had locked up)
10. Well I started searching on Google and found several links to instructions to make Photoshop CS2 run on a flash drive (I searched for Portable Photoshop CS2) I followed these instructions and made a working Portable Photoshop CS2. This worked just fine on any MS Windows Machine that I had Administrator Rights on.
11. I created another directory on my Ubuntu Box in the following location home\USERNAME\.wine\dirve_c\Program Files\PS\ I then copied my Portable Photoshop CS2 directory from my flash drive to this new directory on the Ubuntu Box. I navigated to it and run the following command in a TERMINAL wine Portable_Photoshop.exe .
It worked!! Everything was good but the problem I'm having is that if you touch the keyboard you get an error saying "requested library not loaded" or something like it and everything stops. This might be something I've done wrong with my WINE installation.
Oh, Well, it's a start. Anyone who has any suggestions please post them here.
5 comments:
Glad to see you have not given up and that you are still plugging along. I will most likely never go back to Windows as my primary desktop since I am pretty comfortable with Linux. I am far from L33T, but I can hold my own...to a degree. Did you ever see "Project Looking Glass" from Sun? Sweet eye candy.
For me to switch it would take a VPN client and my much loved Photoshop. Ive got it working now under wine and woud love to say how but I dont know enough about copy rights to put the details up.
I fixed the keyboard lockup but the ALT does not function as expected. Most of the plugins are working too. Ithink if I post what Ive done to this point someone would se a way to drive it home.
FYI this is written from a Ubuntu laptop and my wife has been customizing my orginal 30 day experiment box. I set it to duel boot with a cool selector switch, I have noticed her using ubuntu more only dropping back to windows for needed hardware
I'm too dependent on music, graphic and photo apps (to name a few) to commit my full-time use to a Linux OS. My home PC is and will be Windows based for the forseeable future.
That's not to say I don't Linux. I'm very happy with the Ubuntu OS running (very efficiently and quickly) on the Gateway Solo laptop. For every 10 sessions online, 6 or 7 are with the laptop. I've even got TBH using it as her main computer. For my bells and whistles stuff (especially my digital camera, music downloads and slideshows) I have to stick with Windows XP.
Odd, for music and photos, I find Linux better, but the slide show stuff is still better in Windows.
Photoshop for linux? Well as of now I am using Photoshop for windows, but I also want to learn Photoshop on linux. Hope that is easy too.
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