On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 07:08:21AM -0500, Regis Matejcik wrote:
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 12:55 +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 08:44:16AM -0500, Regis Matejcik wrote:
Anyone had any luck getting "Kindle for PC" to run on OpenSuse via WINE ?
There are several internet posts that reference a minor "tweak" to wine (essentially changing the winecfg to windows98 ) and "Kindle for PC" supposedly works fine. I've done the the winecfg tweak on both my OpenSuse 11.2 desktop and my Ubuntu laptop with similar results.
The "Kindle for PC" program appears to install, an Icon shows up on the desktop, but when the icon is clicked - it tries to launch but crashes.
I tried with yesterdays updated Wine package (1.2rc2 aka 1.1.45_1.2rc2) and it is able to access my Kindle stuff. (and I am able to browse the Freakonomics book I bought ;)
add the Wine repo: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine/openSUSE_11.2/ (replace 11.2 by 11.1 if you are using 11.1)
Ciao, Marcus
Thanks for the suggestion Marcus, I had high hopes, but same results.
When you say "access my Kindle stuff" do you mean by using "Kindle for PC" available from Amazon ? Or browsing a Kindle via USB ? or perhaps something else?
If it's with "Kindle for PC" can you share which version?
I've spent a good deal of time now researching this subject, and it seems that the "Kindle for PC - Beta" version ran almost perfectly under Wine, but the final and current release do not. I've searched extensively for a copy of the old Beta release - but it seems that Amazon has searched equally well in making sure it's not available.
I meant the Kindle for PC, I have the November 2009 version. (1.0 Beta 1 (25338), Last Updated November 15 2009, 09:56 AM) This program access the amazon kindle db (of your account), but not the reader device. The "Kindle Shop" link in the program just starts Firefox on Amazon ... You can just do this via Linux Firefox and the books you buy are transfered via 3G to the reader device without any .EXEs involved. The Kindle reader itself ... You can access it as mass storage device, you can copy (free) ebooks and PDFs on it just as like with any USB stick. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org