Using MATE 2024.04/64bit and want to install Irfanview 64bit ver4.62 to run under Playonlinux. The following are installed as seen by Synaptic: libwine, wine, wine-stable, wine64. Also present and installed: 1) via POL are wine 5.0 and 6.0 as seen in Playonlinux, 2) via Synaptic, wine64-preloader.
Steps:
- Playonlinux (POL) installed
- open POL
- Install a program> Install a non-listed program
- POL Wizard (POL-W) pop-up #1>Next
- POL-W pop-up #2 (does not fully open so can only see 4 lines of pop-up)
- Next
- POL-W pop-up #3: Manual Installation (again, can only see 4 lines of pop-up)>Next>Installl a program in a new virtual drive
- Next
- enter “Irfanview64bit”
- Next
- POL-W #4 (again, can only see two of more options) – selected none
- Next
- POL-W #5: select “64 bits window installation”
- Next
- Msg “Please wait while virtual drive is being created”
- Winecfg pop-up
- POL-W pop-up #6: “Manual Installation”
- browse to executable, “i_view64.exe> select it>open
- Next (i_view64.exe shows on POL-W “Manual Installation” page
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Irfanview opens and is fully functional. BUT after closing, it has not been installed?
- Close Irfanview
- POL pop-up: “Please choose a file for POL to make another shortcut>Browse>
I tried the first process to install an application suggested at “PlayOnLinux 64-bit problems on Ubuntu 22.04, but I encountered many error messages.
So what am I missing? The fact that Irfanview will run with POL suggest to me I am very close to an install, and just missed a switch or additional step?
I am on Mint right now but this should be in the Ubuntu Mate repository too:
wine64-preloader
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Checked it is in the Ubuntu Mate repository. I couldn't get 64 programs to work either but that did the trick for me.
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Thanks for the suggestion - wine64-preloader was not installed, so I installed it from Synaptic. But no luck, problem remains. I also did a reinstall of POL case POL needed something from it.
I don't know anything about irfanview. Does it need Microsoft .netframe?
I have never successfully installed a program that needs it. Garmin's Express (updater) does, along with a lot of other programs.
No, I do not believe so. Irfanview is a free, intuitive, photo manipulator - does not do GIMP things.
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Another thing that is bothersome, I googled but got no answers, is that the pop-ups do not fully open. That is, there are lines of options at the bottom of the pop-up which I cannot see. Makes me wonder if there is a selection that I need to use but not available to me.
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I also want to get ACAD2000 (32bit) to work on 2024.04, but have chosen to focus on Irfanview first. ACAD2000 will not print under wine in 2024.04 and I attribute that to newer wine versions. So POL seemed like a good choice since easy to select earlier wine versions.
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frustrating. I also posted at Ubuntu Forums, but no responses.
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I do not know how it happened, but I did get Notebook to install with POL, with a desktop launcher!!!! So POL does work. Just cannot figure out what is finicky about it trying to get Irfanview to work?
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The "POL Manual Installation" screenshot shows the truncated pop-up. I would like to know what the complete pop-up shows? I wonder if Irfanview is listed, but doesn't show because of the "truncation"? There are more lines below "wmplayer.exe". Could you please post what your view of this pop-up shows?
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