Further to advice from the list, I tried using winetricks. Below you
can see a list of available packages and the one I felt was the answer
(mono is the linux implementation of .NET). Can anyone tell me what I
am doing wrong ?
andrew@zeus:~/Download/Fictionwise/Mobipocket$ winetricks
Usage: /usr/bin/winetricks [options] package [package] ...
This script can help you prepare your system for Windows applications
that mistakenly assume all users' systems have all the needed
redistributable runtime libraries or fonts.
Some options require the Linux 'cabextract' program.
Options:
-q quiet. You must have already agreed to the EULAs.
-v Verbose
Packages:
art2kmin Access 2000 runtime. License required!
cc580 Install native common controls 5.80, override comctl32
corefonts Install MS Times, Arial fonts
dcom98 Install native DCOM, override the Wine implementation
gdiplus Install gdiplus.dll from pp viewer (got a better idea?)
gecko Install the HTML rendering Engine (Mozilla)
jet40 Install Jet 4.0 Service Pack 8
liberation Install Red Hat's Liberation fonts (Sans, Serif, Mono)
mdac27 MDAC 2.7: Microsoft ODBC drivers, etc.
mdac28 MDAC 2.8.
mfc40
mono11 mono 1.1.13-gtksharp-2.8.2 (deprecated, use 1.2)
mono12 mono 1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3 (1.2.4 doesn't run hello, world?)
msi2 Microsoft Installer 2.0
msxml3 (Note: install a bit squidgy; see
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7849)
msxml4 (Note: installing this requires fake c: to be named
harddrive1!)
pdh Install pdh.dll (Performance Data Helper)
tahoma Install MS Tahoma font (not part of corefonts)
vbvm50 Visual Basic 5 runtime
vbrun60 Visual Basic 6 runtime
vcrun6 vc6redist from VS6sp4, including mfc42
vcrun2005 Visual C++ 2005 redistributable libraries
wsh51 Windows Scripting Host 5.1
wsh56 Windows Scripting Host 5.6 (install vcrun6 first)
wsh56js Windows scripting 5.6, jscript only, no cscript
wsh56vb Windows scripting 5.6, vbscript only, no cscript
Pseudopackages:
fakeie6 Set registry to claim IE6sp1 is installed
native_mdac Override odbc32 and odbccp32
winver=win98 Set windows version to win98
winver=winxp Set windows version to winxp
winver= Set windows version to default (win2k)
andrew@zeus:~/Download/Fictionwise/Mobipocket$ winetricks mono12
--13:04:38--
ftp://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.3.1/windows-installer/0/mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe
=> `mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe'
Resolving www.go-mono.com... 130.57.21.18
Connecting to www.go-mono.com|130.57.21.18|:21... failed: Connection
timed out.
Retrying.
--13:07:49--
ftp://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.3.1/windows-installer/0/mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe
(try: 2) => `mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe'
Connecting to www.go-mono.com|130.57.21.18|:21... failed: Connection
timed out.
Retrying.
--13:11:00--
ftp://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.3.1/windows-installer/0/mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe
(try: 3) => `mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe'
Connecting to www.go-mono.com|130.57.21.18|:21... failed: Connection
timed out.
Retrying.
--13:14:12--
ftp://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.3.1/windows-installer/0/mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe
(try: 4) => `mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe'
Connecting to www.go-mono.com|130.57.21.18|:21... failed: Connection
timed out.
Retrying.
--13:17:25--
ftp://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.3.1/windows-installer/0/mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe
(try: 5) => `mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe'
Connecting to www.go-mono.com|130.57.21.18|:21... failed: Connection
timed out.
Retrying.
--13:20:39--
ftp://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.3.1/windows-installer/0/mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe
(try: 6) => `mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe'
Connecting to www.go-mono.com|130.57.21.18|:21... failed: Connection
timed out.
Retrying.
--13:23:54--
ftp://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.3.1/windows-installer/0/mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe
(try: 7) => `mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe'
Connecting to www.go-mono.com|130.57.21.18|:21... failed: Connection
timed out.
Retrying.
--13:27:10--
ftp://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.3.1/windows-installer/0/mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe
(try: 8) => `mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe'
Connecting to www.go-mono.com|130.57.21.18|:21... failed: Connection
timed out.
Retrying.
--13:30:27--
ftp://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.3.1/windows-installer/0/mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe
(try: 9) => `mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe'
Connecting to www.go-mono.com|130.57.21.18|:21... failed: Connection
timed out.
Retrying.
--13:33:45--
ftp://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.3.1/windows-installer/0/mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe
(try:10) => `mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe'
Connecting to www.go-mono.com|130.57.21.18|:21... failed: Connection
timed out.
Retrying.
--13:37:04--
ftp://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.3.1/windows-installer/0/mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe
(try:11) => `mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe'
Connecting to www.go-mono.com|130.57.21.18|:21... failed: Connection
timed out.
Retrying.
--13:40:23--
ftp://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.3.1/windows-installer/0/mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe
(try:12) => `mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe'
Connecting to www.go-mono.com|130.57.21.18|:21... failed: Connection
timed out.
Retrying.
--13:43:43--
ftp://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.3.1/windows-installer/0/mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe
(try:13) => `mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe'
Connecting to www.go-mono.com|130.57.21.18|:21... failed: Connection
timed out.
Retrying.
--13:47:02--
ftp://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.3.1/windows-installer/0/mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe
(try:14) => `mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe'
Connecting to www.go-mono.com|130.57.21.18|:21... failed: Connection
timed out.
Retrying.
--13:50:21--
ftp://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.3.1/windows-installer/0/mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe
(try:15) => `mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe'
Connecting to www.go-mono.com|130.57.21.18|:21... failed: Connection
timed out.
Retrying.
--13:53:40--
ftp://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.3.1/windows-installer/0/mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe
(try:16) => `mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe'
Connecting to www.go-mono.com|130.57.21.18|:21... failed: Connection
timed out.
Retrying.
--13:56:59--
ftp://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.3.1/windows-installer/0/mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe
(try:17) => `mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe'
Connecting to www.go-mono.com|130.57.21.18|:21... failed: Connection
timed out.
Retrying.
--14:00:18--
ftp://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.3.1/windows-installer/0/mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe
(try:18) => `mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe'
Connecting to www.go-mono.com|130.57.21.18|:21... failed: Connection
timed out.
Retrying.
--14:03:38--
ftp://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.3.1/windows-installer/0/mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe
(try:19) => `mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe'
Connecting to www.go-mono.com|130.57.21.18|:21... failed: Connection
timed out.
Retrying.
--14:06:57--
ftp://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.3.1/windows-installer/0/mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe
(try:20) => `mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe'
Connecting to www.go-mono.com|130.57.21.18|:21... failed: Connection
timed out.
Giving up.
Executing sha1sum --status -c
/home/andrew/winetrickscache/mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe.sha1sum
sha1sum:
/home/andrew/winetrickscache/mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe: No
such file or directory
Note: command 'sha1sum --status -c
/home/andrew/winetrickscache/mono-1.2.3.1-gtksharp-2.8.3-win32-0.exe.sha1sum'
returned status 1. Aborting.
andrew@zeus:~/Download/Fictionwise/Mobipocket$
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Andrew
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On the edge of sheer heaven
Believe in this red-letter-day
Life comes to light
On Top of the World by Edenbridge (Shine, 2004)
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