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I was stunned as I took a look at my notebook display when Dreamweaver 8 started after half an hour of installation on Ubuntu. At the begin, reading all the postings on the Internet about using an alternative like nvu, Quanta etc instead of Dreamweaver, because DW on Linux just doesn’t work, they said, so I thought why should it be easy installing DW using wine… As I had some spare time, I tried it and it did work with no problems. You don’t have to change your favorite HTML editor. So, I’d tested it on Ubuntu Feisty testing release. I cannot say anything about previous versions of Ubuntu and other distributions. Here are some configuration facts of my system: HP dv5289ea with Dual Core and nvidia, Gnome, Beryl, wireless connection with firewall…

Firstly, I installed wine using the usual package 0.9.30 from Ubuntu universe repository. Secondly, copied the DW setup file on my desktop and clicked it. It opened as on a Windows PC and did the usual installation. The directory it installed in, you can find in hidden .wine folder in your home directory. Just start the .exe file and that’s it!

I tested just few functions and these are working properly. It connects to the FTP server, I can upload, download, use all the editing features… Happy days!

If you want to make an automatic launcher, consider to add quotes ‘ to any spaced directory like ‘Program Files’.

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