On 5/27/20 10:15 AM, mark wrote:

On 2020-05-27 00:23, Frank Cox wrote:

...

On Wed, 27 May 2020 00:05:34 -0400 mark wrote:

...

The one from their website: file setup.exe setup.exe: PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows, Nullsoft Installer self-extracting archive

Are you sure you have 32-bit wine and not 64-bit wine since your installer says 80386?

Really annoying that reply goes to send, not list by default....

That was a good catch. And I've tried the ADE installer from a number of sourcese, and ALL of the Adobe installers are - wait for it - 32 bit.

Could someone remind me, is this 2010, or 2020?

I can remind you:

This is Adobe (past year 2000, before they were great, we can thank them for postscript).

Does that help?

Valeri

And it looks like I have to build the i686 wine, they don't have a compatibility package.

mark _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

On Wed, 27 May 2020 11:25:45 -0400 mark wrote:

Oh, and I tried the wineprefix, with 32bit, and that doesn't work, either.

A solution that I have used for some stuff in the past, which also has a high pain-in-the-ass factor but at least you get where you're going, is to download the "testing" copy of Windows 10 with the built-in time bomb from Microsoft, install that in Oracle Virtual Box, run what I need to in that and extract the data, then delete the whole works once I've finished. (Because of the time bomb it's pointless to keep the installed image for future use.)

I've received a Jet database file wrapped in some kind of a greatly over-engineered executable installation program before, and this is how I managed to get the data out of it.

On 2020-05-27 11:45, mark wrote:

Found a script for building and installing wine i686.

It failed. I looked at it, and I must be stupid, because... ... Available Groups:    Cinnamon    Compatibility Libraries    Console Internet Tools    Development Tools ...

yum groupinstall "Development Tools" Warning: Group development does not have any packages to install. Maybe run: yum groups mark install (see man yum)

Well, gee, upstream had the answer: ignore the fact that you want to install a group, it won't work unless you add a whole line full of options... -setopt=group_package_types=mandatory,default,optional

You. Do. Not. Break. A. Working. Command, or object. Without. Need.

mark

On Wed, 27 May 2020 14:33:58 -0400 Yves Bellefeuille wrote:

...

Are the books epub type files? If so, you can install fbreader from epel.

While fbreader isn't available for Centos 8 (that I'm aware of, anyway) the appimage works fine.

https://bintray.com/probono/AppImages/download_file?file_path=FBReader-0.99....

However, to make it work you need to use a LD_PRELOAD directive, as follows:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libfreetype.so FBReader-0.99.4.glibc2.14-x86_64.AppImage

Centos 8 includes the foliate ebook reader, which works but isn't as good as fbreader in my opinion. So I just use fbreader through the appimage instead.

On Wed, 27 May 2020 14:13:34 -0500 Jon Pruente wrote:

A major issue is that it's not just reading the file, it's that ADE is needed to even authorize and fulfill the download. Then the possibility of DRM on top of that.

While I've never tried it, it's my understanding that you can use calibre to remove the drm encryption on a purchased ebook so you can read it with something like fbreader (which, as far as I know, can't read a drm-encrusted ebook).

Calibre is also available as an appimage.

https://bintray.com/probono/AppImages/download_file?file_path=Calibre-3.18.0...

On 2020-05-27 15:21, Frank Cox wrote:

On Wed, 27 May 2020 14:13:34 -0500 Jon Pruente wrote:

...

A major issue is that it's not just reading the file, it's that ADE is needed to even authorize and fulfill the download. Then the possibility of DRM on top of that.

While I've never tried it, it's my understanding that you can use calibre to remove the drm encryption on a purchased ebook so you can read it with something like fbreader (which, as far as I know, can't read a drm-encrusted ebook).

Calibre is also available as an appimage.

https://bintray.com/probono/AppImages/download_file?file_path=Calibre-3.18.0...

Ok. So, I kept searching, and found, on the centosfaq, someone a couple years ago announcing a 32 wine library for C 7. I installed that... and using WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32, I could finally run their setup.

Great. !.something, while Adobe has 3, 4.5 and 4.8

Now, I can run the ADE... except I don't remember my password from years ago, and both the "forgot Adobe ID *and* the "forgot password" goes to and Adobe 404 page.

I have notified ebooks.com of their need to update the Linux page....

mark