AWB is made in C#.
C# runs in .NET.
.NET is like a virtual machine to abstract the layer of the operating system.
.NET runs in Windows doesn't run in Linux based OS.
This is sufficient to say that in other operating systems there is the need to have another virtual machine that wraps .NET simulating a Windows environment.
It means a virtual machine running another virtual machine running this software.
This configuration is really hard and requires some additional technical knowledge.
Why I say this, probably well-known, statements?
Because this stack offers something that can run AWB but reduces a lot the reliability of the software and surely the efficiency.
As Asaf says, Wine needs to be set like a 32 bit Windows architecture, so even if you are running a 64 bit, the virtual environment needs to reduce this functionality.
And for text processing it can be a considerable reduction.
Kind regards
On 28.12.2015 21:55, David Gerard wrote:
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@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_an...
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 2:39 AM, Fæ faewik@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@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? _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
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