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[Grady98]

I know the image was avail too in the downloads section. Not sure if the multi installer (what people are using these days I think) works in WINE or VM. It appears people have had good success. That would be your best bet as it is rock stable for windows. I am with you though, trying to fully transition to Linux and get BOTF running. I was planning on tinkering with it this winter so I can't help other than to point you in a general direction PicardNCO. This thread seems to indicate it works though.

[justanick]

It is now 13 days since i replaced Windows 10 with Linux Mint 22.2 Zara. My plan is to try the installer 2.04 RC2 via Wine or Proton. I just have not found the time to try my luck, yet.

[Grady98]

Sounds like a plan justanick. As soon as the last vestiges of summer fade and we are snowed in, I will let you know how it goes. Going to be trying the same thing.

[justanick]

It is now 13 days since i replaced Windows 10 with Linux Mint 22.2 Zara. My plan is to try the installer 2.04 RC2 via Wine or Proton. I just have not found the time to try my luck, yet.

I install Wine via mintinstall("Anwendungsverwaltung" in german). That is the easy part. It is slightly confusing that after installing, there is no feedback whatsoever, but apparently that is irrelevant.

I download the installer 2.04 RC2. The file is now in the order /home/justanick/Downloads.
I open the terminal and type "wine /home/justanick/Downloads/BOTF_Most_Active_2.0.4RC2.exe". The exact spelling can very well matter.
Enter. A few seconds pass. Then the installation proceeds quite similar to windows 10 etc..
The installation does take a while. Getting the window back in the front after say browsing may require to minimize the browser.
Several minutes later the installation is finished. For convenience i add ECM to be bar. I start it and it runs fine. The mouse in the research screen is a bit sluggish, but that is not new.

[justanick]

After installing Default-jre, the Ultimate Editor runs as well.

[Grady98]

Very cool! Thanks for the update! My Christmas project.

[justanick]

I install Wine via mintinstall("Anwendungsverwaltung" in german). That is the easy part. It is slightly confusing that after installing, there is no feedback whatsoever, but apparently that is irrelevant.

The standard wine in Linux Mint, which seems to be inherited from Ubuntu, is a bit old. In the meantime i switched to a more current version of wine. That is not necessary, but it may make sense anyway.

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/w ... ian-Ubuntu

I open the terminal and type "wine /home/justanick/Downloads/BOTF_Most_Active_2.0.4RC2.exe". The exact spelling can very well matter.

This approach while possible is not convenient. Simply opening the installer with wine via the filemanager(Nemo in case of Linux Mint) is more convenient as there is not spelling difficulty.

Now i also switched to the current installer for botf. This time it goes more smoothly. Practice makes perfect i guess.

[justanick]

UE however no longer seems to run.

For security reasons, running the file '/home/justanick/.wine/drive_c/botf/tools/UE/UE.jar' has been blocked.

I wonder if that is related to the file being dated to 1980.

[thunderchero]

UE however no longer seems to run.

For security reasons, running the file '/home/justanick/.wine/drive_c/botf/tools/UE/UE.jar' has been blocked.

I wonder if that is related to the file being dated to 1980.

that is strange, when files are extracted files have that date very weird.
files in this zip are from dist folder build folder with date created see if they work?

Experimental 9.0 build.zip

[justanick]

This does change the date, but the problem remains.

[thunderchero]

This does change the date, but the problem remains.

have to ask, is java up to date? this version of the latest UE and might require new java version?

[justanick]

It is openjdk-21-jre for amd64.

[Flocke]

UE still uses java 8, not 21

[thunderchero]

if java 8 does not work here is folder I am working on for minor update this folder has all 4 versions
ue.zip

Experimental 9.0 build
UE 0.7.2dev5c
UE 0.8.0
UE_0.9.0dev3

let us know if any of these still works

[justanick]

UE still uses java 8, not 21

Strangely enough the UE Version from BOTF_Most_Active_2.0.4RC2 used to run fine anyhow. So that is mostly likely not the problem.

let us know if any of these still works

In all 4 cases it is the same. The file is blocked for security reasons.

It seems fair to say that the problem is somehow related to my system and not a problem introduced by a newer version of UE.

This problem appears to be related to an update of mailcap that in my case Linux Mint delivered.

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=471375