For me, since I am using a live-version of ubuntu, I will loose everything again when I restart my computer tomorrow morning. Hopefully your previous failed attempts will not interfere with the installation process. Hopefully you can too!! I really hope that this will enable you to install and play the games that you love!! Let me know if it works. I navigate back to the install location of goodsol as indicated above step 9, run the executable again with command 9 and now it runs!!! I can play solitaire. Then make it executable and install visual basic runtime 6: really doesn't matter, as long as you have write permissions there. Optionally first go to your ~/Downloads or any other directory before downloading winetricks. This error message is because visual basic runtime is still missing. This gives me the following error message:Ġ009:err:module:import_dll Library MSVBVM60.DLL (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\goodsol\\goodsol.exe") not foundĠ009:err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Importing dlls for L"C:\\Program Files\\goodsol\\goodsol.exe" failed, status c0000135 I navigated to this location and try to run PGS as follows: I just installed everything in the default location, which should then mean that it ends up in: ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/goodsol/ but eventually I got the PGS installer and was able to install pretty good solitaire. This installed another couple of hundred MBs of data on my system. as always I just pressed "Install" (without properly reading the text first :S). actually three times I got a pop-up from WINE: This will start the Pretty Good Solitaire (windows) installer. Then, go to the directory where you have stored the gdsol.exe file and do the following: The installation took 1.6GB!! of space on my system, which for me personally would be a reason not to install WINE, but for you, since you have made this commitment in the past before ). After this the ppa has to be added and wine has to be installed:Ĭommand 4: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cybermax-dexter/sdl2-backportĬommand 6: sudo apt install -install-recommends winehq-stable The previous command is the correct one for ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) and where it differs from the previous link. Note that the description in the first link of my previous post is for ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) and differs a bit for ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver)Ĭommand 1: sudo dpkg -add-architecture i386Ĭommand 2: wget -qO - | sudo apt-key add -Ĭommand 3: sudo apt-add-repository 'deb bionic main' I can see how you ran into issues, because it was really not as straightforward as one might hope. Just for the fun of it I tried to install PGS on my copy of ubuntu 18.04 and managed to get it working. Getting the initial setup under Linux can be a lot of work, but it is totally worth the effort. Or write a bash script that does all the difficult work for you. YOU WILL NEED IT LATER! Believe me, I had to learn this the hard way. write down everything that you are doing, copy every link of source code or how-to page. One other tip: whatever you do under Linux, whether installing or configuring software. Going for a dual boot option could potentially lead to a whole new realm of headache, certainly if your computer has UEFI boot loader with secure boot enabled. However, I would advice not to give up too soon with trying to install it under Linux. I hope the how-to in the first link helps. I cannot judge about the legality of the content, though. BTW, if you were able to install it once, you should be able to achieve that again a second time, right? Here is my first hit with the 10^100 search engine: However, wine has been around for years and with any search engine (I am not using any names here )) you could find tons of descriptions and how-tos. Personally I try to stay away from WINE and either 1) look for native alternatives, 2) don't use the software application at all, 3) create something myself (if it is not too complicated). Creating a double-boot for playing solitaire however sounds clumsy: if you will want to play a quick game you will have to abort all your other work, reboot, play the game, and then reboot back to ubuntu. I'm so happy to hear that you using Ubuntu 18.04 (although 20.04 has passed). I have no answer for you, but I do have an opinion :O.
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