I am trying to use Adobe Reader 10 with Wine in Ubuntu 12.04. The installer doesn't work on 1.4; but the WineHQ database shows it running under 1.5. I tried installing wine1.5 as per the instructions on the download page; but the package that the wine 1.5 beta link points to installs the 1.6 release candidate. How do I get the older 1.5 package?
Ubuntu – Install wine1.5 not wine1.6
12.04adobe-readerwine
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I found the answer... at least a solution.
Can't install wine (or ia32-libs) in Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit
Using /etc/apt/preferences to assign Pin-Priority would solve the dependencies problems while installing wine-i386. However, in some of my machines it would remove almost all kde packages and I need to re-install them back after installing i386 packages.
Turned out it was an inconsistent state of my 16.04. I don't know how I got there (since I don't really use ppas). However installing wine 1.6 is possible. You can try to resolve the problem with aptitude. Just use R# (where # has to be replaced by the number that you see on your screen, in my case 6) to resolve issues.
According to my Debian-savvy friend downgrading of packages doesn't have a high priority (which means that you will normally not see that as a solution).
sudo aptitude install wine
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The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Keep the following packages at their current version:
1) libldap-2.4-2:i386 [Not Installed]
2) libosmesa6 [Not Installed]
3) libosmesa6:i386 [Not Installed]
4) p11-kit-modules:i386 [Not Installed]
5) wine [Not Installed]
6) wine1.6 [Not Installed]
7) wine1.6-amd64 [Not Installed]
8) wine1.6-i386:i386 [Not Installed]
Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
9) wine1.6-amd64 recommends libosmesa6
10) winetricks recommends wine
11) wine1.6-i386:i386 recommends libosmesa6:i386
12) wine1.6-i386:i386 recommends p11-kit-modules:i386
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] R6
Rejecting the removal of wine1.6
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Keep the following packages at their current version:
1) libldap-2.4-2:i386 [Not Installed]
2) libosmesa6 [Not Installed]
3) libosmesa6:i386 [Not Installed]
4) p11-kit-modules:i386 [Not Installed]
5) wine [Not Installed]
6) R wine1.6 [Not Installed]
7) wine1.6-amd64 [Not Installed]
8) wine1.6-i386:i386 [Not Installed]
Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
9) wine1.6-amd64 recommends libosmesa6
10) winetricks recommends wine
11) wine1.6-i386:i386 recommends libosmesa6:i386
12) wine1.6-i386:i386 recommends p11-kit-modules:i386
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Keep the following packages at their current version:
1) R libosmesa6 [Not Installed]
2) libosmesa6:i386 [Not Installed]
Downgrade the following packages:
3) libldap-2.4-2 [2.4.42+dfsg-2ubuntu3.1 (now) -> 2.4.42+dfsg-2ubuntu3 (xenial)]
4) libp11-kit0 [0.23.2-5~ubuntu16.04.1 (now) -> 0.23.2-3 (xenial)]
5) libp11-kit0:i386 [0.23.2-5~ubuntu16.04.1 (now) -> 0.23.2-3 (xenial)]
6) p11-kit [0.23.2-5~ubuntu16.04.1 (now) -> 0.23.2-3 (xenial)]
7) p11-kit-modules [0.23.2-5~ubuntu16.04.1 (now) -> 0.23.2-3 (xenial)]
Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
8) wine1.6-amd64 recommends libosmesa6
9) wine1.6-i386:i386 recommends libosmesa6:i386
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] Y
The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
libldap-2.4-2 libp11-kit0 libp11-kit0:i386 p11-kit p11-kit-modules
The following NEW packages will be installed:
fonts-horai-umefont{a} fonts-unfonts-core{a} fonts-wqy-microhei{a} gnome-exe-thumbnailer{a} icoutils{a} libasn1-8-heimdal:i386{a} libcapi20-3{a} libcapi20-3:i386{a} libexif12:i386{a} libgd3:i386{a}
libgif7{a} libgif7:i386{a} libglu1-mesa:i386{a} libgphoto2-6:i386{a} libgphoto2-port12:i386{a} libgssapi3-heimdal:i386{a} libhcrypto4-heimdal:i386{a} libheimbase1-heimdal:i386{a}
libheimntlm0-heimdal:i386{a} libhx509-5-heimdal:i386{a} libieee1284-3:i386{a} libkrb5-26-heimdal:i386{a} libldap-2.4-2:i386{a} libltdl7:i386{a} libmpg123-0:i386{a} libopenal1:i386{a}
libp11-kit-gnome-keyring:i386{a} libroken18-heimdal:i386{a} libsane:i386{a} libsasl2-2:i386{a} libsasl2-modules:i386{a} libsasl2-modules-db:i386{a} libusb-1.0-0:i386{a} libv4l-0:i386{a}
libv4lconvert0:i386{a} libvpx3:i386{a} libwind0-heimdal:i386{a} libxcomposite1:i386{a} libxcursor1:i386{a} libxinerama1:i386{a} libxpm4:i386{a} libxrandr2:i386{a} ocl-icd-libopencl1:i386{a} odbcinst{a}
odbcinst1debian2{a} p11-kit-modules:i386{a} p7zip{a} ttf-wqy-microhei{a} unixodbc{a} wine wine-gecko2.21{a} wine-gecko2.21:i386{a} wine-mono0.0.8{a} wine1.6{a} wine1.6-amd64{a} wine1.6-i386:i386{a}
winetricks{a}
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
libosmesa6 libosmesa6:i386
0 packages upgraded, 57 newly installed, 5 downgraded, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 151 MB of archives. After unpacking 483 MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
As you can see there, after rejecting the first solution we get to a point where libldap will be "downgraded". However it doesn't look like a real downgrade. It looks more like it's pushed towards an official version.
Best Answer
If it works on wine 1.5 probably it works on 1.6.
Wine 1.5 was a development version that was renumbered to 1.6-rcX as it got close to stable. Wine 1.6-rc1 was released at 2013/06/07, the code was frozen and now only bug fixes (no new features) are accepted.
Stick to wine 1.6, probably it'll work.
I successfully installed Adobe Reader 10.1.4 on wine 1.6-rc4, here's what I've done:
winecfgand set Windows version as Windows XP.winetricks -q mspatchaas recommended at WineHQ appdb.wine ~/Downloads/AdbeRdr1014_en_US.exe.Adobe Reader complains about "Protected Mode" at start up. I just choose Always open with Protected Mode disabled and had no problems.