Well I read that a as of late Sketchup was working ok in wine on linux so I gave it a try. I follow a blog a little. Basically, I install wine-1.0rc4 and then ran winecfg which make a .wine folder in your home folder. I then ran wine on the install .exe I downloaded. It worked fine. Sketchup started and I did not install the html thing the first time like the blog said. Then I crashed as I tried to export a png. It would then not start because of some OpenGL error. Again the comments on the blog talked about this. It was not clear so I will clear it up. I then .wine folder I opened user.reg and found this stuff.
[Software\\Google\\SketchUp6\\GLConfig\\Display] 1213199046
"FIRST_TIME"=dword:00000000
"HW_OK"=dword:00000001
The last line was set to zero and I changed it to 00000001 and then it worked.
For the most part it runs ok. The export 2d stuff always crashs it if you try to output a png first. I tried the other then then back to png and it worked. The editor thing also comes up black and if you click the mouse it is ok. Also if I click the to do something it sometime does not response right away.
Skechup can be used in ubuntu 8.04 linux with wine, but I hope google makes a real linux version. If they just make it work better in wine I guess it would be ok, but I like a lot of poeple would like a linux version.
It's only a matter of time before they port it to Linux. Just look at Picasa, Google Earth, and Google Desktop. One of those uses OpenGL as well anyway. Desktop has a 64-bit Linux port as well.
ReplyDeleteThe funny thing is it seems like they hire some single guy to do the porting over, and he does it in a month, like it was nothing.
Also: I'm surprised that you haven't set up a virtual machine with Windows installed on it in Ubuntu yet. We did that once.
ReplyDeleteBecause of your comment I did it yesterday. I ran Skechup in it and it worked ok. I think the graphics will be just a little slower that way, but it works.
ReplyDeleteThat's good. So at least now when you're doing your development you won't have to stop everything and reboot into Windows.
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