Thanks a lot for this article! Got MS Reader working on my machine (Ubuntu 9.04) in couple of hours. Faced some problems with first attempt, where IE was installed, but ie6 directory was created empty. Second attempt fixed that.

Thanks a ton for this post – you are right, MS Reader is good and wouldn’t have liked to read on other reader

Thanks,
c_p

For easily open .lit files I’m using a customized command like:

env WINEPREFIX=/home/josefo/.wine wine C:Archivos de programaMicrosoft Readermsreader.exe

that I configure by clicking with the secondary mouse button over a .lit file, and choosing open with other application and then, on the dialog that appears, choosing customized command\n[or similar, sorry, my ubuntu is working in spanish language]

With this small configuration, when I double click over a .lit file, it opens directly with ms reader.

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I got all the steps you mentioned, and got MS Reader installed, but it gives me the following error:

farah@farah-laptop:~/Desktop$ ./msreader.sh
wine: cannot find ‘/home/farah/.ies4linux/ie6/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Reader/msreader.exe’

Any tips?

Thanks,
Farah.

whenever it says “/home//” it should be “/home/username/” where username is your username.

And the three commandlines should be

./msreader.sh “`pwd`” filename.lit

alias msreader=’/home/username/msreader.sh “`pwd`”‘

msreader filename.lit

I’ve modified the bash script a little so that it will open the .lit files without having to move it to the library:

——————-

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Script to run MS Reader

cd
export WINEPREFIX=”/home//.ies4linux/ie6″

MS_LOC=”/home//.ies4linux/ie6/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Reader/msreader.exe”

if [ -z "$2" ] # Exit if no argument given.
then
echo “wine \”$MS_LOC\”"
wine “$MS_LOC”
else
echo “Using Microsoft Reader to read $1″
BOOK=”$1/$2″
echo “File located at $BOOK”
wine “$MS_LOC” “$BOOK”
fi

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And then when I call it (I named the file “msreader.sh”), I use the following command. The pwd part is to pass it your current directory. The second one is telling it which file to open.

./msreader.sh “`pwd`”

Or, if you’re REALLY lazy, you can alias it, by adding the following line to ~/.bashrc where the other lines that begin with ‘alias’ are:

alias msreader=’./msreader.sh “`pwd`”‘

Then, you can just run files from wherever you are to open the files by typing

msreader

I wanted to try to see if I can open it directly by double-clicking the file in Nautilus, but I got stuck somewhere. If anybody bothers to figure it out, let me know.

Its a simple missing library. At first, I thought I had all the libraries, but then when I read this short article, I realized that since MSReader was installed using ies4linux that it was using the dll libraries under a separate directory (instead of the usual directory under Wine.

Go to this link for the details.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2008-September/158629.html

In a nut shell, you need to install msvcirt.dll to the “/.ies4linux/ie6/drive_c/windows/system” folder (system 32 should already have it)

if you are not able to copy from system 32 you can find the file for free DL at the following link

http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?msvcirt

Thanks for your help and your patience

I used the following string

gksu wine “/home/john/.ies4linux/ie6/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Reader/msreader.exe”