okay i am running suse 9.0 and I tried today to run photoshop 6.... first time i have ever used wine... okay i did not have any idea what to do to use wine... wether to put my winow files in the wine directory in linux or open wine and tell it to open photoshop.... i had no cluse.. SO i tried to run photoshop.exe and i got that open with list thing... I typed wine and got several wine related name thingers... yeah... so I chose wine and photoshop started to open. It was almost done opening photoshop and initializing and whatnot when it stopped and said something could not be found.... thus i could not use photoshop.

Now my question is, how in the hell do i get photoshop running on wine? Can i open wine and mess around with it to get photoshop to work? what can i do? what are my options?

I also tried to open it with winemaker and some other thing.. but nothing happened. *rolls eyes* ...of course.

also, any wine guide links would be appreciated.


thankers

Hi dave247,
photoshop 6 is not easy to install in linux, but it can be done.
There is a forum at wine with lots of people having lots of problems installing it. However, most of them seem to have solved the problem after following this guide.

On a sidenote: There are special versions of wine for Office apps and games. You may want to buy a license to support windows compatibility layers on linux if you can spare the money. If you cant, however, you can sometimes (most of the times?) get programs to run with a vanilla version of wine (as is the case for photoshop <7.0).

Ah, yes, another sidenote: You may also want to try the GIMP, a free image manipulation program for linux, that many people find to be of equal power as photoshop.

Good luck,
- drowstar

Hmm. well, I dont really like the GIMP that much. I find it anoying especially snice I have been using photoshop for a while and am used to it. GIMP's menu's and palets are also a pain (the main problem) in that they are not all fixed on one single layer of the visual layout. That makes it hard to work fast cause I have to switch back and fourth between palets and crap.. It really rubbs me the wonrg way.

Anyway, I have photoshop 6 (and 7 and 8-trials) As long as I can get one of them working I will be fine. And.... *chuckles* have no more need for windows.

I will check out the guide and see how she runs.