I was asked to do a follow up to my previous post  “How to Run Dreamweaver CS3 on Linux using Wine” , but this time illustrate it using Adobe Dreamweaver CS4. The same method can easily be applied for Fireworks and the other adobe package. I’ve broken it up into easy simple steps to follow!  Both posts are very similar and should help guide you into the right direction.

Now  we  will  try  to  run it   under  Linux (ubuntu or  debian)

you   should   have  installed  CS4 under  windows  because  we  need  this  directory  to  complete  the  installtion

now  we  need  to download  some  packages to  help  us . :

1- Install wine

$sudo apt-get install wine winecfg

now  we  begin to  copy  folder from windows  to  ubuntu .

2-navigate to C:\Program Files. Copy the whole ‘Adobe‘ folder to Ubuntu /home/username/.wine/drive_c/Program Files folder.

3- copy  C:\Documents and Settings\your-windows-user-name\Application Data  to /home/username/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/All Users/Application Data/

4-copy C:\Program Files\Common Files  to /home/username/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Common Files

5- copy  C:\WINDOWS\system32  to /home/username/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32

6-copy   Winsxs  from   C:\windows    to /home/username/.wine/drive_c/windows/  (this folder is  verry  important)

7-  import   the  registery to  wine

from windows  for  to   start and  Run (regedit)

go  to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE-> SOFTWARE->Adobe->Dreamweaver  ; Right click on the ‘Dreamweaver‘ folder and select ‘Export’. Save the file as dreamweaver.reg and  copy  this  file  to  ubuntu  home  directory  and  you  need  to  coinvet the  registery  file   to   ASII  file   (recode)

$sudo   apt-get  install  recode

recode is  :   (Conversion between character sets and surfaces)

$recode ucs-2..ascii dreamweaver.reg

$wine regedit dreamweaver.reg

Now you have successfully copied  all  needed files  to  run   your  installation succefully.

lets  give  a  test :

$cd /home/username

$cd .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Adobe/Adobe\ Dreamweaver\ CS4/

$wine Dreamweaver.exe

Should  be  lunching   the  programe  now.