One of the applications I was missing from windows was Photomatix Pro, it’s a tool used to create HDR effect in digital photography, as there is no plans to release Photomatix Pro for Linux you can install it using wine.
This is how it goes in Ubuntu 8.10 and it also works in 9.04.
Following instructions are based on FAQ on official Photomatix Pro website.
If you don’t have wine installed you have to install it first, you can use Synaptic or command line:
First add wine repository (I will not explain how to do it, there is plenty of documentation online):
# Wine repos
deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt intrepid main
Install wine and cabextract (required to install .NET):
sudo apt-get install wine cabextract
Now set up wine directory in ~/
This will create ~/.wine directory.
Download the program “winetricks” which can load Windows components:
wget http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks
Install fonts and .NET
sh winetricks dotnet20
If you get 404 error on courier32.exe or any other sourceforge download it means that winetricks redirects you to wrong mirror. You can try to fix that by editing winetricks:
Find lines:
# Which sourceforge mirror to use. Rotate based on time, since
# their mirror picker sometimes persistantly sends you to a broken
# mirror.
case `date +%S` in
*[01]) SOURCEFORGE=http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge ;;
*[23]) SOURCEFORGE=http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge ;;
*) SOURCEFORGE=http://downloads.sourceforge.net;;
esac
Comment it out and put one of the above variables, for me this worked:
# Which sourceforge mirror to use. Rotate based on time, since
# their mirror picker sometimes persistantly sends you to a broken
# mirror.
#case `date +%S` in
#*[01]) SOURCEFORGE=http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge ;;
#*[23]) SOURCEFORGE=http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge ;;
#*) SOURCEFORGE=http://downloads.sourceforge.net;;
#esac
SOURCEFORGE=http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge
If fonts and .NET installed properly you can install Photomatix Pro.
You can download it from here.
Right click on this file and choose: “Open with Wine Windows Program Loader”
Follow prompts. You can start Photomatix by:
Add it to Gnome menu or create an alias to make it simpler.
