Successful Wine Install FF 8.004 On Ubuntu

Hi Y'all,

I just decided to do a test install of FF8 on my PopOS (System76) Ubuntu laptop. I'm new to Filter Forge, and haven't really used Wine a whole lot. But, I figured I'd give it a try with the sale.

I followed a few links here and Google searches elsewhere to get it to install and run with links from Chrome. And, so far, it looks like it performs decently.

So, here are the steps:

1) I installed wine-2.0.2 from my OS installer and set it up for Windows 10,
2) I downloaded FF from the DL page,
3) Then, I went into my Downloads folder and typed:

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wine Filter\ Forge\ 8\ Setup.exe

4) After that, I setup a bash script launcher, and saved it as /usr/bin/filterforge, with:

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#!/bin/sh export WINEPREFIX=/home/$(whoami)/.wine wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Filter\ Forge\ 8/Bin/Filter\ Forge\ x64.exe $@

(If you're on a 32-bit system, you'll need to add export WINEARCH=win32 to your script.)
5) I'm using Gnome Desktop, so I added the lauchers for it. In ~/.local/share/applications I created filterforge.desktop and added:

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[Desktop Entry] Name=Filter Forge Exec=/usr/bin/filterforge %u Type=Application Terminal=false MimeType=x-scheme-handler/filterforge

6) Then, in the same directory, I updated mimeapps.list and added the following line to the bottom:

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x-scheme-handler/filterforge=filterforge.desktop

7) Then, finally, when I clicked on a filterforge:// link on the Filter Forge website, Chrome asked if I always wanted to use the mime application, and I said yes.

The only issue I keep getting now is a warning that says, "Error accessing the Category at 'My Filters'." And, it did crash once. But, hopefully, if there are others doing this, we can all work together and iron these out.

Woohoo!

WOW ... shiny new Mint 19 install and you hand me this! Thank you.

Must try (and must upgrade FF)