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nuke_fluke
August 31st, 2008, 11:00 AM
I have installed wine in ubuntu....

I have many ebooks in .lit format which can be read by Microsoft Reader...
I know that these books can be converted to HTMl or pdf by using ****..But I want to use Microsoft Reader..

How can I install MR using wine??

Thanks...
kellemes
August 31st, 2008, 12:31 PM
Does this help?
http://scalar.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/microsoft-reader-on-ubuntu/

http://www.reallyvirtual.com/installing-microsoft-reader-on-linux-and-why-microsoft-reader-rules/
nuke_fluke
September 1st, 2008, 08:22 AM
I installed MR and also have the icon in their in desktop...

But it closes as soon as it opens before I can figure out how to use it...
Any help would be greatly appreciated...
nuke_fluke
September 1st, 2008, 09:40 AM
Now my Microsoft Reader works perfectly..
And surprisingly by contradicting the stressed-upon points in the blog....

This time,I did not use IE 6 to download MR (but Firefox)...
And also I saved the setup file and then 'run' it (contrary to what was demanded....not to 'save' but just 'open') and it installed properly and I can read my ebooks now...

Thanks for the link which was great help.....
nuke_fluke
September 1st, 2008, 10:03 AM
One more problem here....

The Play button does not work...
nirudha
November 13th, 2008, 09:25 AM
Hi nuke_fluke, is that the only thing you did? I still have the problem of it closing a second or so after it opens :(


Now my Microsoft Reader works perfectly..
And surprisingly by contradicting the stressed-upon points in the blog....

This time,I did not use IE 6 to download MR (but Firefox)...
And also I saved the setup file and then 'run' it (contrary to what was demanded....not to 'save' but just 'open') and it installed properly and I can read my ebooks now...

Thanks for the link which was great help.....
Paresh
December 9th, 2008, 12:26 AM
I had the same problem with MS Reader loading and exiting after a second.

Trying to run it from terminal gave me an error log that indicated that msvcirt.dll was missing.

Note that this is not msvcrt.dll, which I had to download separately, but msvcirt.dll, which is not even mentioned in any instructions I had read.

Once this was copied into the MS reader directory, it worked fine.