Rosetta Stone

Hi,

I am not a tech person and just want a few apps to work in Ubuntu. It has been a few years where I have tried to make this work and given up because I don't get it.

Where can I find something easy on where you install an outside program on Wine? I don't understand. The above comment said it might work straight out of the box but I am not sure what that means. What were people doing that made it work that way?

I also don't understand how to create a path for my DVD drive if I have to go through the terminal. This is all 100% new to me. All I have is Ubuntu and I need this and Overdrive. It is not anywhere on the internet and I am a librarian so that is saying something. I read the basic Ubuntu book. It does not teach Wine.

Thanks for your help

IS your version of Rosetta stone 5.0 or newer. Also have you installed the wine program. (If not use the software store/ center to search for and install wine.) Wine was not covered in the ubuntu material because it is actually its own separate program you install. What wine does is it try to translate programs that where intended for windows into something linux can understand. Assuming your rosetta stone is a valid licence of version 5 or newer I should be able to help you get it working.

After hitting the button 'Start Level X Now' nothing happens. Just a blank screen. 'Help', 'Course Contents' and 'Return to Home Screen' doesn't work either. I tried both Wine 3.0 and 3.2 on Ubuntu 16.04. The only thing that works is the alphabet. Do I need some additional software like flash to make this work?

I will retest with wine 3.x series when I get a chance it has been a bit sense I tested it. No it did not previous require additional software other than a language pack be installed. Do you have a language pack installed?

Yes, a language pack is installed. Did the same with Adobe Flash and AIR on Wine (didn't do the trick and was not necessary as I now know.). The ALSA workaround also didn't work for me though with ALSA enabled I can choose the correct sound device.

I should have a chance to test it tomorrow, one last question. Is this a purchased copy of the software? I ask because I have observed radically different behavior between my purchased copy and my attempt to run a cracked copy in wine.

It's an unlicensed copy. However CrossOver 17 will run it including support for microphone via ALSA.

After comparing what Crossover and Wine does I found the issue. It turns out that Crossover uses by default a 32 bit environment whereas Wine uses 64 bit. This means setting up a 32 bit wineprefix is the solution. Now everything works.

// creating 32 bit wineprefix
WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX="path_to_wineprefix" winecfg

// path_to_wineprefix is the folder where everything goes
// default is $HOME/.wine
// use '$HOME/.wine32' for example
// folder will be created automatically

// installing Rosetta to new wineprefix
WINEPREFIX="path_to_wineprefix" wine start /unix "path_to_Rosetta_installer"

// running Winetricks to set ALSA
env WINEPREFIX="path_to_wineprefix" winetricks --gui

My system still works on 64bit. That said I am now wondering if this is a system specific issue ie software config or certain hardware or if it is yet another bug specific to workaround used for the crack. I noticed one of the test head the same issue and also solved it with a 32bit prefix. I will likely add this to the general trouble shooting

"The installer has encountered an error and is unable to proceed."

I am away from my computer right now, when I get a chance I will look into it. to make sure there is not a wine regression. I recall someone else having a similar issues and solving it by renaming Setup. exe to setup. exe. if I remember correctly it gave error created new files and there was a setup among those files, I will have to review the conversation. I never had that particular problem. what os and wine version are you running?

Thanks for suggestion. The setup file is lowercase. I'm using Ubuntu 16.04.02 and Wine 2.0.

I had the same issue on Debian 9 and installing to a clean 64-bit Wine prefix fixed it for me.

Apologies, not sure precisely what you mean by "clean 64-bit Wine prefix"...

Before following steps bellow right click your setup file and make sure under permisions the make executable box is check. Now in regards to the clean prefix question.

Wine has a default prefix and you can create separate prefixes. (Prefixes are special folders with libraries, programs and configurations. Each one can hold different configurations) Because various installation and changes can break one thing and not another it is often recommended to use different prefixes for various programs. A clean prefix would be one without any previous modifications or changes, such as ones created by wine tricks or dll overrides.

Given that you are not clear on this I will assume you are using the default prefix. To get a new clean prefix simply go to your home folder, ctrl + h to show hidden folders. Then find the .wine folder. Delete this folder, If you have anything installed with wine this will cause you to lose it. (Alternatively you can read on how to create and select prefixes.) After you install if it fails still go into the .wine folder and search through it to see if the installer created its own files and directories. If it has there should be another setup file in there.

If that is the case run the setup present in there. It seems people uses some languages have had to do this though I have not experienced this myself. Some have also reported it working under wine stagging for them but not under regular wine. If any of this works let me know and I will help you file some test results and look into the issues, so I can add the appropriate information to the page.

OK, will give this a try. One issue is that I'm trying to install from the DVD, so the setup.exe file can't be modified as executable. I'm doing the full download now and will make sure that setup.exe file is set that way.

Hey Sarah glad it worked well in a clean prefix, if you find the time would you mind adding your test results?

Done! :)

I managed to reproduce the issues with pulse audio and the mic. If using pulse audio you can't have you mic set to high or low. Set the volume in pulse mixer to where it barely registers noise when not talking.This should be at about half of the first bubble fills up occasionally in volume control. When you speak it should go at least half way up. After this it works with pulse audio for me.

Hey i can't get it to work. in RS 4 TOTALe with wine version 1.9.21 in, tells can't find any mic
Pulse is installed and works fine on linux

well first go into here appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=1867 and post this under the correct version. that said run winecfg in terminal then go to audio section and make sure it is set to use pulse audio. However It seem that many older versions of rossetta stone have issues. I cannot test this myself as i only own a license to the latest version. That said if you post in the correct version i will try and help you out. What is the exact full length version number?