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sitproperly on Sep 4th 2008 Gaudia Vaisnava, Geeky Things

Vedabase on Linux!

I’ve had several posts about this and basically figured that it would never ever happen. But thanks to some great help from Urukrama prabhu on the Ubuntu Forums, I have Vedabase running on Linux.

Vedabase on LinuxI have Xubuntu 8.4.1 installed and running quite well. I like it well enough to not change back to regular Ubuntu. It’s speedy and doesn’t take up a lot of space.

The version of Vedabase that must be run is the cracked version. Like I specified before, I have the full, regular $400 version. I don’t think anyone would argue with me using a cracked version.

Since Vedabase is a Windows program, you have to install Wine on Ubuntu (or in my case, Xubuntu). That’s a quick trip to the Add/Remove program. Once that’s installed, I followed Urukrama prabhu’s advice:

You need to change that in a file called system.reg in /home/USERNAME/.wine

Search for the phrase “Change preferred owner” and replace it with whatever you want to be called. You can also find a “RegisteredOrganization” field in that file. I forget if by default that has something in it, but if it does, you can easily delete that and leave it blank (so that the line reads “RegisteredOrganization”=”")

The username and organisation line occur several times in that file. Make sure you change all of them.

I found that there were two instances of that. Done and done! Oh, I accessed this folder while logged in as “root.” I’m not 100% sure you have to, but I assumed you did. Just a heads up. [Edit - Nope, sure don't need to be root, just change it.]

Vedabase on Linux!!I then opened Wine and configured it to run like Windows 98 (I remember reading somewhere that Windows 98 worked best with FolioViews, but I could be wrong).

Since Vedabase came in a zip file, so I unzipped it to a folder on the desktop, opened the folder and clicked “setup”. It tried to play a WAV file, but it couldn’t, so I canceled that and it installed real quick like (it even wanted to install a 2003 version of WinAmp, but I choose to refuse).

I was basically sure that this wouldn’t work. After the installation, it placed the Vedabase “V” icon on my desktop. I clicked it and presto! There it was! Vedabase on Linux! You have NO idea how stoked I am.

I have no idea if this will be helpful to anyone, but seriously, if I can do this, so can you. Any questions? Ask away.

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