Irfanview in Wine

[Mdh3MHY]

Hi all,

I am having some trouble trying to install Irfanview into wine. I've only just started using ubuntu 12.04, having installed it on my laptop earlier this week (as a dual-boot set-up alongside my existing Windows 7 installation). I have followed instructions online: installed wine; downloaded the Irfanview installer (iview430_setup.exe) and copied the mfc42.dll from the System32 folder to the wine equivalent folder. Then I followed the instructions to launch the installation from terminal but it came up with these errors - suggesting to me that mfc42.dll isn't there but it is:

:~$ cd /home/[user]/Downloads
:~/Downloads$ wine iview430_setup.exe
fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls" (6.0.0.0)
err:module:import_dll Library KERNELBASE.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library API-MS-Win-Core-Debug-L1-1-0.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library API-MS-Win-Core-ErrorHandling-L1-1-0.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library API-MS-Win-Core-File-L1-1-0.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library API-MS-Win-Core-Handle-L1-1-0.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library API-MS-Win-Core-Interlocked-L1-1-0.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library API-MS-Win-Core-LibraryLoader-L1-1-0.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library API-MS-Win-Core-Localization-L1-1-0.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library API-MS-Win-Core-LocalRegistry-L1-1-0.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library API-MS-Win-Core-Memory-L1-1-0.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library API-MS-Win-Core-Misc-L1-1-0.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library API-MS-Win-Core-ProcessEnvironment-L1-1-0.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library API-MS-Win-Core-ProcessThreads-L1-1-0.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library API-MS-Win-Core-Profile-L1-1-0.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library API-MS-Win-Core-String-L1-1-0.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library API-MS-Win-Core-Synch-L1-1-0.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library API-MS-Win-Core-SysInfo-L1-1-0.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library MFC42.DLL (which is needed by L"Z:\\home\\[user]\\Downloads\\iview430_setup.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"Z:\\home\\[user]\\Downloads\\iview430_setup.exe" failed, status c0000135

Apologies if I have missed anything obvious - I'm still getting to grips with the new setup.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

If anyone else is wondering I have no idea why I have such a random username, I logged in using my cloud account and I wasn't given the option to choose otherwise...

[GwL3eNC]

Hi,

i has had a look at http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...rsion&iId=7834.
They call

winetricks mfc42

to install the dll. Have you tried that? Open a terminal window and go
to the place where the mfc24 is stored (cd command) and try the winetricks
commmand.

[ajgreeny]

Yes, when I tried to install irfanview in my Ubuntu 10.06 a couple of years ago I had exactly that same problem and had to solve it with wine-tricks. Copying the mfc42 file directly from the winXP did not work as I recall, though it was a long time ago.

Instead of irfanview under wine have a good look at gthumb, which I find is the nearest dedicated linux application, and the nearest thing I have found to irfanview, which I now don't miss at all.

[Mdh3MHY]

Hi,

i has had a look at http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...rsion&iId=7834.
They call

winetricks mfc42

to install the dll. Have you tried that? Open a terminal window and go
to the place where the mfc24 is stored (cd command) and try the winetricks
commmand.

I've just tried out that command and it doesn't seem to have worked - I get this:

:~$ cd /home/[user]/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32:~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32$ winetricks mfc42
Executing w_do_call mfc42
Executing load_mfc42
Executing mkdir -p /home/[user]/.cache/winetricks/vcrun6
Downloading http://download.microsoft.com/download/vc60pro/update/1/w9xnt4/en-us/vc6redistsetup_enu.exe to /home/[user]/.cache/winetricks/vcrun6
--2013-09-08 09:32:28--  http://download.microsoft.com/download/vc60pro/update/1/w9xnt4/en-us/vc6redistsetup_enu.exe
Resolving download.microsoft.com (download.microsoft.com)... 213.120.161.243, 217.32.26.16
Connecting to download.microsoft.com (download.microsoft.com)|213.120.161.243|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2013-09-08 09:32:29 ERROR 404: Not Found.


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Downloading http://download.microsoft.com/download/vc60pro/update/1/w9xnt4/en-us/vc6redistsetup_enu.exe failed
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:~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32$

Instead of irfanview under wine have a good look at gthumb, which I find is the nearest dedicated linux application, and the nearest thing I have found to irfanview, which I now don't miss at all.

I'll have a look at that.

[carl4926]

If you have that version of crossover they gave away not long ago, you could use that
In the Community Supported list it lists Irfranview 4.33
I have used it, it does work.
But I prefer native apps

[Mdh3MHY]

I had not heard of Crossover before, but I looked on the software centre and it appeared to be free so I downloaded it - I followed the instructions on there and although it wanted me to register the edition the Irfanview installer started and I now have it working. I think the factor that allowed it to work was that Crossover downloaded and installed Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 (so I presume mfc42.dll was then recognised: now just to sort out the shortcut to the program.

[howefield]

I had not heard of Crossover before, but I looked on the software centre and it appeared to be free.

Most likely free for 14 days, then you would need to purchase.

http://www.codeweavers.com/

[GwL3eNC]

Hello,

why dont you try downloading

vc6redistsetup_enu.exe

manualy and install it before you do the winetricks command.

[Mdh3MHY]

Most likely free for 14 days, then you would need to purchase.

http://www.codeweavers.com/

Ah yes, I had a message pop up asking to register and that this edition would terminate after a fortnight.

[Mdh3MHY]

I currently need to delete a folder in /usr/share/doc so that I can reinstall an app - the options to delete or cut it are greyed out so how can I delete it successfully (is there a terminal command that can be used)?

EDIT: Managed to do it with "sudo nautilus"