When I installed Ububto on my laptop I decided to learn Gimp. Well that didn’t go very well, so I tried a few others. But after a week I must say they just don’t toe the line, at least not for me.

Don’t get me wrong; they all have their benefits. However I have been using fireworks for a very long time. I know it to well and realy lack the time to learn gimp.

So what follows is how I installed fireworks.

First you need to install wine. I won’t go into that now but you can follow the directions here: Ubuntu wiki
Then insert the cd into your cdrom. cd to your cd dir and type: wine setup.exe
If all goes well the setup window will popup. Just follow the screens. When the install finishes open a terminal and type

wine '/home/david/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Macromedia/Fireworks MX/Fireworks.exe'
If you get an error like this:

err:module:import_dll Library MSVCP60.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Macromedia\\Fireworks MX\\Plug-Ins\\Gemstone.dll") not found
err:module:import_dll Library MFC42.DLL (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Macromedia\\Fireworks MX\\Plug-Ins\\Gemstone.dll") not found

You’ll need to download the missing dlls(MSVCP60.dll, MFC42.DLL). just search for them on google the put them in

/home/david/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 (make sure you use your username)

Then try it again. You may get new dll errors just find the new missing dlls and repeat the process.

When your done you can add a custom launcher to your Panel:

left click on you panel and click “add to panel” then “Custom Application Launcher”

under name put Fireworks

under command: wine '/home/david/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Macromedia/Fireworks MX/Fireworks.exe'

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