SketchUp on Linux

C.S.Cameron · 20 Jul 2008, 03:21

SketchUp now seems to be running 100% with wine in Umbuntu Linux.
Windows is looking like a thing of the past.
Is there any discussion on this subject in the forums?
Search did not give any results

arvmehta · 22 Jul 2008, 07:37

Lewis , this is great news . I haven't been so successful with sketchup on Ubuntu/xubuntu/mint/debian . It seems to balk on the unable to initialise OpenGl . Says Error ChoosePixelFormat failed . Any clues ? There was a patch for wine at http://aksels.de/software.php which i tried as well . Didn't work .

lewiswadsworth · 22 Jul 2008, 13:22

arvmehta,

Aksels' procedure is generally unnecessary now. I could never make it work anyway.

Look at that longer thread linked above, remove all the old versions of WINE and any dependencies, and then reinstall everything...new version of WINE, newest version of SU, newest updates to Ubuntu--and try those registry settings (although yesterday when I installed SU on Wine on an Ubuntu 64-bit system they didn't even seem necessary). Make sure you use the version of WINE from WineHQ for your distro, too:

http://www.winehq.org/site/download
http://www.winehq.org/site/download-deb

Add their WINE repository, if you use .deb, to your system's set of trusted APT keys, as directed.

Don't rely on the version in the Ubuntu repositories...it tends to lag significantly behind the current releases.

Also, as noted in the other thread, none of this seems to work unless you have a modern NVidia card with the non-Open-Source driver activated...I have been told by some other users that it doesn't work at all under ATI cards or with integrated graphics (Intel).

Be aware that performance is still a little worse than under Windows...there doesn't seem to be any way to get around that.

lewiswadsworth · 22 Jul 2008, 14:24

@c.s.cameron said:

SketchUp now seems to be running 100% with wine in Umbuntu Linux.
Windows is looking like a thing of the past.
Is there any discussion on this subject in the forums?
Search did not give any results

Hi Cork. I remember you from the old SketchUp forum.

Yes, big thread here:

301 Moved Permanently

(www.sketchucation.com)

I just changed the title from Rubies and SketchUp on Linux to SketchUp and Rubies on Linux...perhaps that will help with future searches.

One of my tasks for tomorrow is tracking down some issues with the 64-bit version of Ubuntu and SketchUp.

By the way, if you have different registry settings or suggestions for SU-on-Linux, please do add them to that thread. Google (I've been led to believe) now directs people wanting help there, since they will not themselves support SU on the platform.