Error on startup of sketchup on Linux (Ubuntu)

daryl · 27 Feb 2010, 23:49

My video card is Nvidia...VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72 [GeForce 7300 SE] (rev a1)

EscapeArtist · 28 Feb 2010, 00:18

I use winedoors and have had little trouble with sketchup on Ubuntu 64 bit. I never could get it to work right under just regular wine.

daryl · 28 Feb 2010, 00:47

Winedoors? Never heard of it. I'll go try to find it and download, etc. It there is any secrets to it, let me know.
Thanks.

IdahoJ · 28 Feb 2010, 01:05

What version of Ubuntu are you running?
What version of Wine is installed?

If you have a 64-bit system, be sure to install the ia32 libs using Synaptic.
CORRECTION: WINE should install the ia32 libs for you by default.

Just as an aside, I'd use winetricks over winedoors as the former has been kept up to date...

Cheers.

daryl · 28 Feb 2010, 01:26

I installed winedoors and it installed sketchup. But on installation, winedoors froze up.
Now, to install winetricks I went to...
http://ubuntu-snippets.blogspot.com/2008/05/as-most-of-us-know-wine-is-used-to-run.html

I ran these commands as instructed...
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
chmod +x winetricks

But that is as far as I got. What do I do from there?

daryl · 28 Feb 2010, 01:52

Ok, I ran ./winetricks and winetricks started. It shows a list of possible programs to install. Sketchup is not on the list.
So, what now? Please...
Thanks.

IdahoJ · 28 Feb 2010, 02:43

winetricks allows you to install Windows components into the WINE environment in a simple, straightforward manner...
There are a few other programs like Mozilla, but SketchUp isn't there.

What version of Ubuntu and WINE are you running?

daryl · 28 Feb 2010, 03:10

Ubuntu 9.04. Wine 1.1.39

daryl · 28 Feb 2010, 03:11

Woops. And 64 bit

IdahoJ · 28 Feb 2010, 05:27

Ok, first thing I'd do is do a clean install using 9.10 and start over. There were a LOT of improvements in 9.10 over 9.04 that solved SU compatibility issues... Including video driver updates, etc. Don't do an "upgrade" as it tends to leave some of the old libs and files around, messing things up. Ask me how I know...

Your WINE is the latest I'm aware of. It "should" load the ia32 libs for you by default, but you can always check using Synaptic. You HAVE to have the ia32 libs because even though you're using WINE, it relies on some 32-bit libs to interact with the LINUX environment. About the only thing I've loaded as "extras" in WINE using winetricks were a few fonts and a couple of MS runtime libs.

FWIW, I run Xubuntu 9.10 64-bit with an Intel driver, SU 7.1, Twilight Renderer and SketchyPhysics all under WINE 1.1.39 without any issues at all so I know you should be able to as well...

Cheers.