HI all,
This updates an earlier note I posted on the Beta board.
The released Scrivener 3 (Win) works under Wine via both PlayOnLinux and Crossover. I didn’t test it on Wine itself, but I assume it would work because all of the previous betas did, and raw Wine was all I used for them.
Req: Dotnet 4.6.2 (I’m up to 4.7) and the Speech SDK.
There’s a problem with Wine 6, however, which seems persistent.
For the betas, when I upgraded my system Wine installation from Wine 5 to Wine 6, the betas stopped working, so I rolled back and the betas started working again.
For the released version of Scrivener, I installed it on Crossover with my system Wine 5 still not upgraded, and after some fiddling, it works.
For Play On LInux, which can testbed various Wine versions in the same bottle, an install into a bottle with Wine 6.5 failed, mainly because installing Dotnet 4.6.2 into that bottle consistently crapped out (failed installation). Seems to be a Wine problem, though I don’t see reports of it (which is odd).
But rolling the bottle’s Wine version back to the latest stable Wine 5.x and then installing Dotnet4.6 and 4.7 worked like a charm. (If this doesn’t make sense to you, the part about a bottle being able to be run under alternate versions of Wine within POL, see the POL documentation. It’s a nice feature!)
Sending this FYI. I haven’t bought a Scrivener license yet, but I’m about to. If the license installs and works, we’re GTG.
Thomas