OrchidWiz Being Retired

[FL_Orchid_Collector]

Then if you have the latest winehq version (I've been using staging for all my windows software, it's 7.xx but I don't use much windows stuff) you need to set up a 32-bit wineprefix. If you're already using wine on a 64-bit distro you'll need to set a new wineprefix so in a terminal run

WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 wineboot

to set up the wineprefix, then

WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 winetricks dotnet40

go through the prompts

WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 winetricks jet40

go through those prompts, then cd to where the X8.0 installer is unzipped and run

WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 wine setup.exe

go through the OrchidWiz installer, and it should even put a handy icon on your desktop. If you don't have winetricks do

sudo apt install winetricks

before trying the winetricks dotnet40 and winetricks jet40 commands above. If you're not on the latest winehq wine, I think WineHQ - Run Windows applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS has instructions on how to access their repos. Once you have the desktop icon you'll need to right-click it and allow launching as a program, at least on ubuntu but it seemed mint didn't need me to do that, but it didn't show the OrchidWiz icon, it used a generic icon on the launcher instead. I can probably fix that in the image when I trim it up and polish it but before I even start on that I'm going to fine-tooth the license to see if I can distribute their unzipped installer like that. I would think that would be a good thing, the more people who can use it doesn't mean less paying customers, so if I can't do it they must hate money I guess hehe but anyway if anyone wants to try one I'll check the details on that and get started if it's ok license-wise.

[Roberta]

Originally Posted by FL_Orchid_Collector

if it's ok license-wise.

Not OK license-wise. Each person who purchases the product is licensed to run it on 2 machines. If a person who purchases it wants to run it under Linux, your instructions will be handy. But they have to own Orchidwiz first. You can't legally distribute the Orchidwiz, at least not while they are still in business and very likely after. If they change the licensing terms later then you could revisit. But it is very possible that it will be taken over by someone else - I am sure that the Orchidwiz owners are in negotiations to make that happen. If so, it still is not going to become a freebie.