Dreamweaver MX running on Gentoo 1.4

nuance9 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Sep 2002 Posts: 85

Successfully got Dreamweaver MX up on my Gentoo 1.4 box tonight. I installed from the CD.

For those interested here was my recipe:

Install wine-20021007 from downloaded source (my experience was that emerging wine will NOT work)

Run winesetuptk

From their on just follow the instructions at:
http://frankscorner.org/wine/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=36&page=1

If you need the DLL's - I found most at http://www.dll-files.com. The only one not there was imm32.dll which I found here: http://www.dllstorage.com.ua/dll/I.html.

One note. I did get a warning during install that MDAC 2.6+ is required. It does not appear to be required to startup, as I could not get MDAC installed yet (I think it required IE to already be installed).

Hope this helps some who might be interested. I will be installing this on my work box soon - and should have a chance to give it a thorough testing.

- Justin

digitalnick · Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2002 2:46 am Post subject:

last time i got dw mx working in liunx the menus were crashing me let us know if you have stability problems ... would love to not have to use vmware to do my dreamweaver editing

nuance9 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Sep 2002 Posts: 85

Any menus in particular, or just all of them?

digitalnick · Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2002 4:50 am Post subject:

i believe the menus on the right but im not for sure now i guess test em all seem to remembe teh ftp thing didnt want to work.

digitalnick · Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 3:41 pm Post subject:

how is it goin? anxious to know if its worth installing or just keep vmware

nuance9 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Sep 2002 Posts: 85

Ok. Dreamweaver crashes on the following:

Color Box from the Properties Window

Any "Site" related function.

Those are the only ones I have run into thus far. I haven't really had time to use it too much yet, unfortunately.

- Justin

nuance9 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Sep 2002 Posts: 85

Ok. Working across the top menu.

File
New - Works
Open - Works
Close - Works - But throws a couple warning boxes - No crash
Save - Works
Save as - Works
Save as Template - Requires a site to be defined, which would crash DW
Save all - Works
Print Code - Works
Import
XML into Template - appears to work, didn't really test much
Word HTML - appears to work, didn't really test much
Tabular Data - appears to work , didn't really test much
Export - Didn't test yet
Convert
3.0 Browser Compatible - works
XHTML - works
Preview in Browser - Didn't test yet
Debug in Browser - Didn't test yet
Check Browser - Didn't test yet
Design Notes - Requires a site to be defined, which would crash DW
Exit - Works

Edit
Undo - Works
Redo - Works
Cut - Works
Copy - Works
Paste - Works
Clear - Works
Copy HTML - Works
Paste HTML - Works
Select All - Works
Select Parent Tag - Works
Select Child Tag - Didn't Test
Find and Replace - Works
Find Next - Works
Go to Line - Works
Show Code Hints - Works
Indent Code - Works
Outdent Code - Works
Balance Braces - Didn't Test yet
Set Breakpoint - Works
Remove all breakpoints - Works
Repeating Entries - Didn't test yet
Edit with external editor - Didn't test yet
Tag libraries - Works
Keyboard shortcuts - Works
Preferences - Works

View
Code - Works
Design - Works
Code and design - Works
Switch views - Works
Refresh design view - Works
Design view on top - Works
Server debug - Didn't test yet
Live data - Requires a site to be defined, which would crash DW
Live data setting - Same as above
Head content - Works
Noscript Content - Works
Table view - Works
Visual aids - Works
Code View Options - Works
Rulers - Works
Grid - Works
Tracing Image - Didn't Test yet
Plugins - Didn't test yet
Hide panels - Works
Toolbars - Works

I'll post the results of some more when I get a chance.

- Justin

nuance9 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Sep 2002 Posts: 85

Big Update!!!!

Installed this:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/winscript56/Install/5.6/W9XNT4Me/EN- US/scr56en.exe

And all of the "Site" functions just started working! As far as I can tell almost complete functionality in wine except for the color picker on the properties box.

Yipee!!

- justin

digitalnick · Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2002 5:12 am Post subject:

ok when i go to install dreamweaver i get

nuance9 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Sep 2002 Posts: 85

have you tried using:

find -iname regedit
find -iname winedefault.reg

to verify their existence / location?

- justin

digitalnick · Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2002 4:28 am Post subject:

i installed from the winehq tar after i couldnt get it working .. now still having all kinda problems ... get same error tryiung to intall either dw 4 or mx i posted in youir thread on franks world dont remember wht the error is now

but i guess before i keep killing myself over this ... is it worth it to run dw in wine ... or should i just stick to vmware.?

nuance9 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Sep 2002 Posts: 85

I have not tried installing DW4, only DWMX.

One thing that could lead to problems is what user you run certain things as. I can't remember if I had to run winesetuptk as root or su user. Also, you need to run the DW install as the user that has the wine config setup for.

You do need to run regedit on the winedefault.reg. I also would run "ldconfig" as root once installing wine. You need to install DCOM95, and while you are at it might as well do DCOM98 too. MDAC is also good to install - but IE4+ is required.

Whether it is worth it or not, I don't think that is really a technical question. Most functionality appears to be working with Wine. Of course, all functionality is probably working with VMWare. So I guess it depends if your personality is:

A) If it ain't broken, why fix it?
B) I gotta try that for myself!

- Justin

compdude68 · n00b Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 30

Anyone else recently have luck with getting dreamweaver to work?.. I can't seem to get it to work and i have followed the instructions (wich are now in google cache cause the site went down) to the dot.

Compdude

bcavalieri · n00b Joined: 27 Sep 2002 Posts: 72 Location: Kansas City

I have it working with codeweavers crossover office.

Everything but the mysql server behaviors works. MDAC 2.6+ is required for that portion, but I have not been able to mdac 2.6 to install.

compdude68 · n00b Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 30

Ok thanks I will have to look into codeweavers crossover office.

Compdude

compdude68 · n00b Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 30

I would still like to have a solution that is free to run Dreamweaver. I was hoping with the changes that Wine has gone through during the time between now and the original post on this topic that it may have become easier.

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helmers · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 6:10 am Post subject:

I got dreamweaver going, I had to use the command line found at frankscorner to get it to install, I got the error message too, but then you just need to delete all the temporary dirs(which setup creates) and retry with the command line.

Anyways, I am having some trouble with starting Dreamweaver, if I add to my WINE config what frank says, Dreamweaver won't start and throws an empty dialog box. If I remove it, Dreamweaver will start, but doesn't work right.

What DLL's to use with the latest WINE?
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m4chine · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2003 10:37 pm Post subject:

helmers -- did you come up with a working solution?
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helmers · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 11:41 am Post subject:

No I did not. I miss WINE-guides for some most-wanted applications like Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Word and Internet Explorer, it would be a nice addition here at the forums.

I don't know WINE good enough to create something that works every time, most of the times I get things going it is pure luck.

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alexerre · Apprentice Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 267 Location: Italy

Hello everybody

I emerge wine 20030911 and I installed dreamweaver MX succesfully. DW start normally and I can creata a single page, but when I try to save/open a page wine (or DW) crash...

I have no ideas...

suggestions?
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Kermit_the_frog · n00b Joined: 19 May 2003 Posts: 18

Hi!

m4chine · Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 8:36 pm Post subject:

alexerre -- i would check out www.frankscorner.org iirc, i've seen that error in postings and i believe you are missing some dlls. I'll check when i have some time. And please, explain your steps for installing dreamweaver mx succesfully, what version of dreamweaver mx?
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