Running PFE on a linux (ubuntu) computer

[Ben Buse]

To supplement the post on running PFE on a mac computer - here's how to do it on ubuntu (linux). The same solution should work for mac's - which also run wine.

Instead of emulation you can use wine which runs programs natively - "acting as bridge between the windows program and linux [or mac]".

The main issuses is that you often lack microsoft components/dlls.

I got it working on ubuntu

(1) - wine is default to 64 bit so need to create a wine configured as 32 bit.
(2) install calczaf & PFE
(3) - use winetricks and/or your own copy of microsoft to gather the neccessary microsoft components (e.g. winetricks MSJET40.dll; mdac28, mfc40, mfc42? my own windows msjint40.dll, msjter40.dll)
(4) see if it works [I ran from terminal] or whether your missing any components!

I already had MS office installed I don't think this is neccesary - but it allows export to excel etc - via open file link not when export data - which does not seem to work - although it outputs to dat file correctly.

Seems to work fine - can view peak scans, & analog images, quantify data etc.