I am a newbe using lucid lynx; which would be the better choice, installing wine to run overdrive or setting up samba? I have a intel pentium 4 processor 524. 512mb ram 200gb harddrive.

Hi,

How are the two options even related? One seems to be some sort of media centre software and the other is for remote file systems. What are you trying to do?

Additionally, wine only works with some programs see appdb.winehq.org. If you want a media centre program there are many native ones already packaged for Ubuntu.

Evo2.

Overdrive is needed to download e-books from the local library. What I'm trying to do is get e-books from library on ipod using lucid lynx. Tried virual box with windows xp-got overdrive, but itunes not working. Tried down loading overdrive in lucid, but that failed with error "fixme:msi:MSI_OpenDatabaseW open failed r = 80030050 for L"C:\\windows\\temp\\msi281.tmp"

Hi,

Have you tried using calibre? It is a ebook downloader and reader under very active development. Does your library have a web page with any documentation on the topic?

I don't use windows or itunes, but IIRC gpl version of virtualbox doesn't have usb support. Perhaps itunes was trying to do something requiring usb.

Downloading overdrive failed? How did you try to download it? Are you planning to try to use it with wine? And what exactly did you do to get that error message?

Evo2.

Hi,

I will look into calibre this week. My library is the free library of philadelphia. Their web page gives no documentation, it just points you toward the Overdrive site. In regards to the fixme error, it came about this way.

First From Overdrive site I downloaded mediaoverdrive. It came as a msi file. I right clicked the folder & marked it executable. Then from the terminal I ran "wget http://www.overdrive.com/file/ODMediaConsoleSetup.msi" when it completed I ran "wine msiexec /i ODMediaConsoleSetup.msi" that's when fixme:msi:MSI_OpenDatabaseW open failed r = 80030050 for L"C:\\users\\mediafuzz\\Temp\\msi41c.tmp" error occurred.

The setup I am going for is wine to open overdrive then if possible connecting banshee, or rythmbox to put e-book on ipod.

Hi,

I had a look at the web page: it seems you need to be a member to download anything so I wasn't able to test it.

Thanks for the details about how you were trying to use overdrive.

Good luck with calibre, let us know how it goes.

Cheers,

Evo2.