Adobe Digital Editions

What works

Everything appears to work as expected.  Download books, decrypt, read them, return.

What does not

Installing dotnet 3.5SP1

Workarounds

Had to use the full dotnet 3.5SP1 installer

Download the full .NET 3.5SP1 installer from Microsoft: https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...

Disconnect your computer from the internet.

Install .NET to your wine prefix.

Reactivate your internet connection and install ADE 2.0.1 as detailed in previous tests.

What was not tested

Nothing

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Intel
• Driver: open source

Additional Comments

Requires getting dotnet 3.5 SP 1 installed.  Use the full installer package vs. the smaller version from MS.

The "small" dotnet 3.5SP1 installer downloads additional packages during installation.

The Full Package installer has the entire dotnet 3.5SP1 in one download and doesn't require a network connection to properly install.

Full dotnet 3.5SP1 Installer: https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...

This can be installed normally through wine, and if done without being connected to the internet, should successfully work. Then install ADE 2.0.1 as usual.

ADE 2.0 is a WPF-based application. WPF is not implemented in Mono. Probably, it will never be.

You may try running ADE using native .NET installation.

Please note that ADE 2.0 requires .NET platform 3.5 SP1, which is not yet fully functional in WINE.

Also thanks to Kevin for the note on persistent drive mapping with winecgf.

Note: The writer of this how-to (lafon) is recreating the steps outlined by Lukasz with a KOBO eReader. However the steps should be the same for all similar devices.

Note: Do NOT open ADE until clearly outlined in this how-to!

1) Mount your device and make note of it's mount point (This needs to be remembered exactly). For me this was /media/KOBOeReader/

2) The next step is to unmount your eReader (This is because winecfg cannot seem to keep the changes applied if the device is mounted).

3) Next open winecfg and switch to the [Drives] tab.

4) On the [Drives] tab click the "Show Advanced" button.

Note: As outlined in the comment by Kevin, WINE does not seem to have persistent drive mapping while the device is mounted. Therefore you have 2 options. Either the messy way, which is to keep the winecfg window open while ADE runs, or unmount and create a persistent entry.

5) Click the "Add" button.

6) Choose a letter to map your device to (I used "O:" because that was the only letter available to me.)

7) In the "Path" box, type the mount point from step 1.

8) In the "Type" drop-down menu, choose "Floppy disk" as the option.

9) Click "OK".

10) Open ADE. If everything went correctly ADE should ask you to authorize your eReader with your Adobe account (if you authorized your computer anonymously you will be asked to authorize your computer too). To read eBooks on your device simply drag-and-drop books from your ADE library to the entry in the left pane of ADE that corresponds with your eReader.

11) Finally remember to safely dismount your device from your computer.

Good luck!