SkyDemon on Linux (Ubuntu)

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this is based on or copied from a Post in the skydemon forums

Install winetricks and wine
```
sudo apt-get install winetricks
```
(this will also install wine as a dependancy)
even though the above command installed winetricks, replace it with the newest version as download url's might have changed etc:
```
sudo wget http://winetricks.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/winetricks -O /usr/bin/winetricks
```
if you are running a 64bit Linux, create a wine 32 bit prefix. i had some problems when i created a second prefix with 32bit.. since i don't need a 64 bit prefix anyway, i simply delted my .wine directory first
```
rm -rf /home/username/.wine
```
, and then recreated a 32bit prefix in .wine. (don't copy/paste, replace username with your user home directory name and use a direcotry other than .wine if .wine still exists and you want to keep your 64bit prefix. the directory must not exist yet!):
```
WINEPREFIX='/home/username/.wine' WINEARCH='win32' wine 'wineboot'
```
run
```
winecfg
```
and simply click OK when it pops up
run
```
winetricks dotnet30sp1
```
and follow the instructions (download the dotnet stuff and copy it to the folder they say.
now re-run the command
```
winetricks dotnet30sp1
```
which will now install dotnet 2.0. it will then try to download dotnetfx3.exe which it could not find in my case.. i went to the microsoft downlaod center, searched for dotnetfx3.exe and downloaded the lates version (by release date). i then copied and renamed it (as it was called dotnetfx3setup.exe) to the foder winetricks created as one of the last steps in its output:
```
cp Downloads/dotnetfx3setup.exe /home/username/.cache/winetricks/dotnet30/
```
the installer will first install some stuff and then fail, don't freak out! just keep on going :)
run
```
winetricks gdiplus
```