I got my Adobe Photoshop 7 running very well on Ubuntu 8.04 Linux. Previously I tried to install CS3 version of Photoshop, but after many issues was not able to install it on Ubuntu. Here is how you can get your Photoshop 7 running on Ubuntu 8.04.
Step 1: Install Wine
On Terminal:
$ sudo apt-get install wine
First of all, you will need to install Photoshop 7 on Windows. After installing it on Windows, create a 'Adobe' directory in "/home/YOURNAME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files".
From windows, copy the Photoshop installed directory from “c:\Program Files\Adobe” to “/home/YOURNAME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Adobe” in Ubuntu.
Step 3: Importing registry.
In your Windows box, type “regedit” in the command-line and export the whole “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Adobe/” to “adobe.reg.
If your Ubuntu box has as default charset ascii and your Windows box has ucs-2 then on terminal type:
$ sudo recode ucs-2..ascii adobe.reg
$ sudo wine regedit adobe.reg
Crete a new launcher on your Desktop and set command to:
wine "c:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop 7.0\Photoshop.exe"
That's it.
14 February, 2009 20:15
Funny, I just installed Photoshop 7
tryout version (from fileplanet.com)
with wine-1.1.15, and had no problem...
but then I didn't try to activate it,
I just used it in trial mode.
Is it only the retail disc that has
trouble, or does activating the tryout
also have trouble?
See also wiki.winehq.org/AdobePhotoshop.