HOWTO: Install Dreamweaver MX 2004 on wine

[w1z4rd]

I have just moved over from about 14 years of microsoft abuse, and there are simply some things I can not live without. One of them is Dreamweaver. A lot of okes out out there use it. Ive seen a lot of people out there in the forums requesting information, so I thought this might be the right place to bring it.

The content was not written by me, but by Clint Christopher from Canada who is involved with the wine application wiki.

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Here's a howto for wine versions 0.9.3, 0.9.5 and 0.9.6 (Wine 0.9.4 doesn't run Dreamweaver):


start up with a clean install of wine:
rm -rf ~/.wine

It is possible to run Dreamweaver without mdac and internet explorer. Just run:

wine "Install Dreamweaver MX.exe" (I have a licensed version)

and ignore the "This program requires mdac 2.6" warning. It is recommended however to install the Mozilla Activex Control with flash player plugin. Please see Howto section of Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 for more details on this.

To use internet explorer as the default browser for Dreamweaver preview mode, here's how:

Download this file: http://www.kievinfo.com/2/ie6_overrides.reg
Run wine regedit ie6_overrides.reg

Download dcom98
Run wine dcom98.exe

Run rm -f ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/regsvr32.exe
Download and run wine ie6setup.exe

Install mdac_type.exe:

wine mdac_type.exe

Run the dreamweaver installer

Run winecfg and add msvcrt.dll to the libraries as native, builtin (to avoid dreamweaver crashing when clicking on the fireworks button to launch fireworks within dreamweaver)

0.9.3 and 0.9.5 sometimes experiences hangups on the splash screen. This is because Dreamweaver seems to scan all drives. It seems to have a "hangup" when it scans mounted windows partitions. To let dreamweaver go up fast, just remove drives (in winecfg) that inadvertently goes to those mounted windows partitions.

Update:
Wine 0.9.6 doesn't seem to run dreamweaver mx (hangs at the splash screen) without installing internet explorer first. Please install internet explorer 6 as per instruction above.

Clint Canada

How to Install Dreamweaver MX in wine 0.9.9

By default, wine 0.9.9 doesn't run or install dreamweaver (dreamweaver requires ie to be installed to avoid the splash screen hangup issue). This is because of a bug (4708) which also breaks ie6 installs and other apps as well.

To get around this, please patch 0.9.9 with this file located here: http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cg...00&action=view

Once patched and recompiled, ie6 and dreamweaver should run ok. Also, unreadable fonts are an issue with 0.9.9 (Dreamweaver simply looks ugly!) Please copy your fonts from /usr/share/fonts or wherever your fonts are, to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts and you should be ok - it should be working a bit better.

Clint Christopher Canada

Where I found this: http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=1054

Got this from Franks Corner:

Tested Wine Version: 0.9.2

Type wine dreamweaver\ mx\ installer.exeM to install Dreamweaver.
Type wine dreamweaver.exe in the installation directory to run Dreamweaver MX.

I think this will be a good project to keep track of as more than a few people will leave MS, when they know they can take their GfX with them. Im a n00b so hopefully the other will help assist the Dreamweaver folk.

[rejser]

very nice howto.
just one question, where can I find mdac? The one on MS home requires validation, and I don't have an win-box anywhere.

[w1z4rd]

very nice howto.
just one question, where can I find mdac? The one on MS home requires validation, and I don't have an win-box anywhere.

Have uploaded mdac28.exe to my website if anyone needs it: DOWNLOAD FILE

[b0bby]

goodie! i will try on Wine 0.9.9 and write and tell u in a few hours how it went =)

[b0bby]

it kinda crashes when running installer, saying that it cant fint iKernel.exe and cant complete its install

[bucksgt]

I can confirm that Dreamweaver MX works on Dapper. Here is what I did to get it to work:

in the file: /etc/apt/sources.list
add the lines:
deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt dapper main
deb-src http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt dapper main

(you need to add the above repositories or rebuild the package from source with a patch from: http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cg...00&action=view )

at the terminal, run: apt-get update
now install wine with apt-get at the terminal or synaptic, etc.

copy the files: mfc42.dll and msvcp60.dll to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system

**important note: other sites with documentation on this problem will direct you to download the above dlls from dll-files.com. as of writing this, mfc42.dll from dll-files.com _does_not_ work. i had to grab the file from a windows xp box. however, there are other ways to get it. the filesize of mfc42.dll is: 1028096 if it's smaller, you have the wrong file.**

run: wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Macromedia/Dreamweaver MX/Dreamweaver.exe

(i didn't have any problems installing dreamweaver as i installed it using a standalone .exe self-installing package. your results may vary.)

-qk.

[rejser]

bucksgt: didn't try it with mx 2004?

[jeffreyvergara.NET]

I managed to run DMX8 before but it's really that usable, it's slow and some options cannot be used...

[wislon]

very nice howto.
just one question, where can I find mdac? The one on MS home requires validation, and I don't have an win-box anywhere.

There's an easy way to get all the required bits and pieces in one go using winetools. Check out this forum topic:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...=CD+repository

This is actually a wine install HOWTO, but the winetools is an exceptionally useful little piece of it.

HTH

[PingunZ]

I cant follow that howto ... maybe I'm to noob I dont know but i don't understand where to begin ... and what to do ...

Grtz PingunZ