Ubuntu – How to install the Overdrive lending library program on Wine

14.04winewinetricks

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Trusty Tahr
Wine 1.6.2
Windows Installer (msiexec) 4.5.6001.22299

Overdrive Media Console is a Windows application running on Windows XP SP3 or later. Overdrive is used by lending libraries to lend ebook, audio, and video files, but only to registered members of a library. There is no Ubuntu package.

I downloaded the ODMediaConsoleSetup.msi file from http://app.overdrive.com/, saved it, and made it executable. Then I ran Wine thus:

$ wine msiexec /i ODMediaConsoleSetup.msi
fixme:storage:create_storagefile Storage share mode not implemented.
err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"VSDCA_VsdLaunchConditions" returned 1603

After googling I could not find any references to my problem. Has anybody been here before and succeeded in installing Overdrive?

Regards,
Hedley

Best Answer

I had the same problem until I used winecfg to change the Windows version from XP to Win 7. The installer ran and I was then able to download an MP3 audiobook.

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