HOWTO: Run PowerPost on Ubuntu!

**Martje_001** · February 25th, 2008

Step 1:
Install wine
Install wine via "system --> Administration --> Synaptic Package Manager" or follow the instrucions on WineHQ.

Step 2:
Solve the dll-hell
Do this in a terminal:

Code:

cd ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system
wget http://dll.softandco.com/dll/dlls/Mfc42.zip -O mfc42.zip
unzip mfc42.zip
cp Mfc42.dll mfc42.dll
rm mfc42.zip
cd ~

Step 3:
Get powerpost
Do this in a terminal:

Code:

wget http://powerpost.free.fr/files/'YencPowerPostA&A11b.zip'
unzip 'YencPowerPostA&A11b.zip'
rm 'YencPowerPostA&A11b.zip'
mv 'YencPowerPostA&A11b' .PowerPost

Step 4:
Make a system-wide link

Code:

cd /usr/bin
sudo nano powerpost

Paste these two lines:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
wine ~/.PowerPost/'YencPowerPostA&A11b.exe'

Press CTRL+O to save and CTRL+X to exit.
Now do:

Code:

sudo chmod +x powerpost

Step 5:
Run PowerPost!
Press ALT+F2 --> powerpost

**dalezjc** · May 26th, 2008

When I try to unzip, I get the following:

Archive: mfc42.zip
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of mfc42.zip or
mfc42.zip.zip, and cannot find mfc42.zip.ZIP, period.