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I had it installed, running under WINE on CentOS 6. Bought a ebook, it insisted it needed ADE, I d/l from the sellers site… setup.exe won’t run. Tried d/l 4.5 and 3 from Adobe, neither installer works,

The one from their website: file setup.exe setup.exe: PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows, Nullsoft Installer self-extracting archive

Anyone run into this yet? I have books I *bought*, and I want them….

mark

14 thoughts on - Adobe Digital Editions?

  • Are the books epub type files? If so, you can install fbreader from epel.

    gollum.deepsoft.com% file /scratch/FBooks/*
    /scratch/FBooks/Autonomous.epub: EPUB ebook data Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to extract
    /scratch/FBooks/Deathstalker.epub: EPUB ebook data Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to extract
    /scratch/FBooks/TheCalculatingStars.epub: EPUB ebook data Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to extract

    At Wed, 27 May 2020 00:05:34 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote:

  • Really annoying that reply goes to send, not list by default….

    That was a good catch. And I’ve tried the ADE installer from a number of sourcese, and ALL of the Adobe installers are – wait for it – 32 bit.

    Could someone remind me, is this 2010, or 2020?

    And it looks like I have to build the i686 wine, they don’t have a compatibility package.

    mark

  • I can remind you:

    This is Adobe (past year 2000, before they were great, we can thank them for postscript).

    Does that help?

    Valeri

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  • Hi, Valeri,

    Oh, that’s right, silly me, why would *any* company doing business in 2020 have a 64-bit executable? Wonder if there’s an 16-bit….

    Oh, and I tried the wineprefix, with 32bit, and that doesn’t work, either.

    mark

  • Found a script for building and installing wine i686.

    It failed. I looked at it, and I must be stupid, because…
    … Available Groups:
    Cinnamon
    Compatibility Libraries
    Console Internet Tools
    Development Tools
    …

    yum groupinstall “Development Tools”
    Warning: Group development does not have any packages to install. Maybe run: yum groups mark install (see man yum)

    mark

  • At Wed, 27 May 2020 11:15:33 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote:

    I believe Mess-Windows 10 still supports 32-bit. MacOSX and most mainstream Linux distros have dropped 32-bit, even though nobody still makes 32-bit processors for desktops and laptops (yes, there are embeded / IoT processors that are 32-bit).

  • Well, gee, upstream had the answer: ignore the fact that you want to install a group, it won’t work unless you add a whole line full of options…
    -setopt=group_package_types=mandatory,default,optional

    You. Do. Not. Break. A. Working. Command, or object. Without. Need.

    mark

  • A solution that I have used for some stuff in the past, which also has a high pain-in-the-ass factor but at least you get where you’re going, is to download the “testing” copy of Windows 10 with the built-in time bomb from Microsoft, install that in Oracle Virtual Box, run what I need to in that and extract the data, then delete the whole works once I’ve finished. (Because of the time bomb it’s pointless to keep the installed image for future use.)

    I’ve received a Jet database file wrapped in some kind of a greatly over-engineered executable installation program before, and this is how I managed to get the data out of it.

  • “Robert Heller” wrote:

    Can I second this suggestion? What kind of files are you trying to read?

  • A major issue is that it’s not just reading the file, it’s that ADE is needed to even authorize and fulfill the download. Then the possibility of DRM on top of that.

  • Calibre itself doesn’t, but there are 3rd party DeDRM plugins available for that. Calibre also includes an ebook reader that handles most formats.