MS Download 2.0 in Linux w/ WINE

[pope]

#1: Install a Linux distribution of your choice.
#2: Install WINE (Wine Is Not an Emulator)
#3: Download the MS Download 2.0 installer (http://www.megamanual.com/files/softwar ... _setup.exe)
#4: Run the installer with WINE

At this point, MSD2.0 is installed, but WINE will not run it due to a missing DLL.

The missing dll is: msvcp60.dll

#5.0: If you are like me and you have a windows installation lying around, copy the file from
"C:/WINDOWS/system32"
to
"~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32"

(from Linux, my windows partition is mounted as "/media/Windows" so the file would be found in "/media/Windows/WINDOWS/system32", but your system could mount it differently. If windows is on a different system, use your method of choice for transferring the file.)

#5.1: If you do not have a windows installation lying around:

a) Google (Yahoo, Ask, etc...) msvcp60.dll and download it from whichever site you find most trustworthy, and place in "~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32"

or

b.0) Download this update file directly from Microsoft: http://download.microsoft.com/download/ ... up_deu.exe
b.1) extract the content of vc6redistsetup_enu.exe with an archive manager (I use file-roller)
b.2) open the new file (vcredist.exe) with an archive manager
b.3) select and extract msvcp60.dll and place it in "~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32"


MS Download 2.0 will now run in Linux with WINE. However, the update feature for automatically downloading new firmwares does not work (I have yet to determine why), so the .s19 files will need to be manually downloaded and used through the standard "file -> open" method.

I have successfully loaded new firmware to my MS2 unit from Linux with this procedure.

[Peter Florance]

Thanks for posting this. I tried it today and it worked great in Ubuntu 8.04LTS

Note I did have to copy over mfc42.dll from my Windows partition as well.

Thanks again!