On 2008-12-23 (Tuesday) 20:12:34 mifan81 wrote: > I saw autodesk inventor 2009 is working with wine Where you saw it? If this was in AppDB then I'm afraid this is false hope (at least for now). By reading AppDB page: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=14178 you may think that Inventor works out-of-the-box. But this never was true. I wrote to the Maintainer some time ago (more than a week) and asked him how he was able to install and successfully run Autodesk Inventor 2009 Professional. He answered: "Honestly, I have to look at my registry hive again. I forgot what I changed. I'll put it on the page in a few days." - but the page in the AppDB was never updated after that; my guess he wasn't able to reproduce successful installation or wasn't able to run the program again. But perhaps he didn't have free time and after few days just forgot about this so I sent him a reminder. However in any case he clearly indicated that Inventor never worked out-of-the-box because he did some (unfortunately forgotten) changes to the registry - and he also forgot to mention this in the AppDB page. BTW, you can install Inventor 2009 (at least this is true on Debian Lenny) if you run its installer (inventor.msi) directly with SETUP=1 parameter but don't forget to install dotnet20 first (using winetricks). Unfortunately this will not help much because Inventor will fail to run after that (however it doesn't hurt to try - maybe you will have better luck). Currently I have no free time but as soon as I have some I'm going to look into this problem again and will create some bug reports about Inventor 2009 and its installer.
