I got it to work on Ubuntu 14.04 by approximately this
method. It's
INCREDIBLY long winded, you have to download about a gigabyte of stuff
from Microsoft, one file didn't exist at the listed download site any
more and I had to get a questionable copy off someone's "saved stuff"
web directory, and after all that a pile of stuff doesn't work
properly. *However*, it is usable for real work without getting a
Windows box to run it on.
On 28 December 2015 at 11:52, Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I have recently been able to make it work under
WINE, and have updated the
documentation page accordingly[1]. It did take a series of winetricks(1)
incantations to get it to work. It's quite brittle. In particular, make
sure you're specifying WINARCH=32.
A.
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Mono_a…
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 2:39 AM, Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It's been several years since I used AWB for
anything serious, precisely
because it only runs under Windows.
The conventional advice is to run it in a windows emulator, such as Wine,
Parallels or Virtualbox. Folks talk about porting it, but I suspect this
will never happen.
Fae
On 28 Dec 2015 10:36, "Tito Dutta" <trulytito(a)gmail.com> wrote:
In last 2 years I have contacted every help
section from AWB talk page,
Ubuntu help forum etc.
Trying this medium as well:
Can someone tell me how to use AWB on Ubuntu?
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