Thursday, June 27, 2013

Sketchup 2013 with wine in linux

Tried to install Sketchup 2013 on Ubuntu Lucid, and it kept complaining about needing to install the Windows Imaging Component.

Downloaded it: http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/f/1/ff178bb1-da91-48ed-89e5-478a99387d4f/wic_x86_enu.exe 53c18652ac2f8a51303deb48a1b7abbdb1db427f

But it claimed a newer version was already installed. From here I gleaned that I needed to move system32/windowscodecs.dll out of the way first: http://winetricks.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/winetricks

Then I was able to install WIC and then Sketchup.