Why does everyone "need" MS Paint so badly? GIMP does what MS Paint does x10 better =/ Its less professional then Photoshop but it still is better then MS Paint and it comes with Ubuntu.
Applications >>> Graphics >>> GIMP Image Editor
I can very much identify with people who would like their old trusty apps working in Linux. I am sure Gimp is capable of doing everything that MS Paint does but to me, as I have been using MS Paint since the days it was still called 'Paintbrush' in Windows 3.0, its interface feels almost instinctive and that's why I for one would very much like it to work in Ubuntu. So yes, you're probably right when you say that I and perhaps others are closed minded when it comes to learning how to use alternative applications, admittedly.
The thing that annoys me when I read forums where people (mostly) suggest alternative applications as the solution to getting a certain programme working is the fact that they are not addressing the actual question. Often the question of how to get a certain / specific application to work is misinterpreted by many as how to achieve what this program normally does [in Ubuntu]. In all except the rarest cases the person asking actually MEANT what he asked, unless you have a good reason to assume otherwise.
Therefore, in discussions as these, please refrain from (only) suggesting alternative apps and especially from demanding the subject to justify his/her motive to use the app as this will only cause irritation and doesn't actually solve anything. Alternative software is only a real 'solution' when all else fails and there is absolutely no way to get the app working.
I have also attempted to install MS Paint in Ubuntu 10.04, but to no avail. I have a VirtualBox VM with Windows 7 on it, so theoretically I could just run Paint in there, but I hate having to use the shared folder all the time and the clipboard from the host machine to the guest machine (even though I've installed Guest Additions in the guest machine) doesn't transfer image data.
When I installed mspaint.exe first, I got the same error message:
Code:
joshuajones@joshuajones-desktop:~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/system32$ wine mspaint.exe
err:module:import_dll Library MFC42u.DLL (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\mspaint.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\windows\\system32\\mspaint.exe" failed, status c0000135
The solution seemed simple; just get a copy of MFC42u.dll in Wine's system32 folder. That's what I did. Then I got a whole string of errors:
Code:
joshuajones@joshuajones-desktop:~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/system32$ wine mspaint.exe
err:module:import_dll Library KERNELBASE.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42u.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\\MFC42u.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\\MFC42u.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\\MFC42u.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\\MFC42u.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\\MFC42u.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\\MFC42u.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\\MFC42u.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\\MFC42u.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\\MFC42u.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\\MFC42u.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\\MFC42u.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\\MFC42u.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\\MFC42u.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\\MFC42u.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\\MFC42u.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\\MFC42u.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library API-MS-Win-Security-Base-L1-1-0.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42u.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library MFC42u.DLL (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\mspaint.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\windows\\system32\\mspaint.exe" failed, status c0000135
These are all just references to DLLs missing. Since my VM has Win 7 on it I just located each of these DLLs in the VM and copied them into the Wine System 32 directory. When I did that and I tried to run MS Paint again, I got this:
Code:
joshuajones@joshuajones-desktop:~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/system32$ wine mspaint.exe
fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation (0x00000032,0x32fad4,0x00000004,(nil)) stub
wine: Call from 0x7bc3e3b0 to unimplemented function ntdll.dll.RtlCreateTagHeap, aborting
err:module:attach_process_dlls "KERNELBASE.dll" failed to initialize, aborting
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\windows\\system32\\mspaint.exe" failed, status 80000100
I'm at a dead end here ... is there anyone who can tell me where I went wrong? And more importantly, how to fix this?
And just to be frank; 'just use Gimp' is not a solution to getting MS Paint to work in Wine
All help deeply appreciated
[EDIT] It must also be added that I have also followed lkraemer's steps but that didn't work either.
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