MS Reader on 8.04

[Jeffrey D. Greenly]

Thank you for replying...

On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 09:45 -0400, Brian McKee wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Jeffrey D. Greenly <kd6hul at verizon.net> wrote:
> > I realize that my question will probably invoke some "why are you doing
> > that?!?" responses, but if anyone can help, I would appreciate it.
> >
> > On my computers that run Ubuntu 7.10, I have successfully installed MS
> > reader using the IEs4Linux method described on the internet, and it
> > works. This is handy for me, because I have a LOT of documents, books,
> > etc. in .lit format, a holdover from my MS days. However, I haven't been
> > able to get MS Reader to work under 8.04. The application starts, but
> > then quietly crashes.
> >
> > I have updated wine, tried reinstalling IEs4Linux and ms reader, and
> > haven't met with success.
> 
> Which version of wine are you using?  and where does it fail?  Is it
> IE that doesn't work or MS Reader?

Sorry to be vague... IE 6.0 is working fine, as far as I can tell. When
I attempt to start MS Reader, the splash screen for Reader comes up,
then before it goes to library, closes... so Reader opens for maybe a
second or so, then shuts down.

Wine version is 1.1.2


> Using Hardy and the wine debs from winehq
> <http://www.winehq.org/site/download-deb> as well as the ies4linux
> script I have IE running fine.  I must admit I'm using a slightly
> older version than what's there currently, as once I had it working
> doing what I wanted it to do I pinned the wine packages rather than
> risk all the darned regressions they seem to love.
> 
> Brian
> 

Jeff