Upon the command ‘~$ wine pcad2009smarteng.exe’, progeCAD installed properly as expected in accordance with previous experience to the point of opening up a server to register the license. Wine: cannot find L”C:\windows\system32\icad.exe” My understanding is that it is a 64-bit program it runs under wine64 in other operating systems, but I don’t really know what it does ‘under the hood’ and if I attempt to run wine against icad.exe from the home directory (above but containing. But there is some confusion in my mind about 32-bit/64-bit program status. I used winecfg to set things to Windows Vista application setting which is definitely compatible with progeCAD 2009 Smart!.

Have yet to try Xubuntu or MX.įollowing are most of the gory details I can think of: ProgeCAD runs well under other instances and versions of Wine in Debian Stretch and Ubuntu flavors Ubuntu 18.04.2, Lubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu MATE 16.04 is workable but produces no working desktop icon, menu entry, or shortcut in Kubuntu 18.04. Wine, of course, is the Windows-to-Linux compatibility layer package ‘Wine Is Not an Emulator’. This is progeCAD 2009 Smart!, a ten-year old Windows shareware clone of the ubiquitous professional computer aided design program AutoCAD that is licensed for free non-business use. I’ll certainly be grateful if someone can provide any pointers or advice that will spare me some of the endless rabbit holes I’m finding around: Hopefully someone will inform me if there is a more appropriate place or way I should have posted this. I’m an antiX newbie and am generally not too acquainted with the use of forums.

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