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Installing Safari with Flash and Shockwave under Ubuntu with Wine

Well guys i thought that i would post this for any of you that maybe developing web sites or heaven forbid your thinking firefox is too slow for you.

This is somewhat borrowed from this web site http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2008/03/howto-install-safari-on-ubuntu-w...

Who am i kidding it's all borrowed from this how to guide.

From what i can gather is basically your not making a Mac program work on Linux your making a Windows Program work under Linux, which in fairness is nothing new and exciting. 

So if you don't have a copy of Wine installed, and a copy of the msttcorefonts then you will need to open up a command line terminal and place the following code in there.

sudo aptitude install msttcorefonts wine

You may need to make sure that your install of Wine is configured as XP, you can load the configure option by placing this following code into the command line terminal

winecfg

and choosing Windows XP in the Windows Version, in the GUI window that pops up

Then you need to copy some font's across so it will look all nice and pretty when you use it, by placing these following code into the command line terminal

cp /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Arial*.ttf ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts/

and

cp /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Times_New_Roman*.ttf ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts/

and then we need to download a copy of safari, now you can either down load it from this web site http://www.apple.com/safari/download/

or you can place the following code into a command line terminal

wget http://ubuntu-debs.googlecode.com/files/SafariSetup.exe

and then place this code into a command line terminal

wine SafariSetup.exe

if you've not used the above wget command then you need to cd into where ever you've downloaded it in a terminal, and place the above code into the command line terminal

When the install starts you need to make sure that you uncheck both

”Install Bonjour for Windows” and “Automatically update Safari and other Apple Software.”  and you will need to accept the license too, then start the installation.

Now you need to install the flash for it too, place the following code into a command line terminal

wget http://ubuntu-debs.googlecode.com/files/install_flash_player.exe

and then place the following code into the command line terminal

wine install_flash_player.exe

Now Safari is installed and should be found under Applications > Wine > Programs > Safari

Now for the final step let's install Shockwave as well, place the following code into the command line terminal

wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/shockwave/default/english/win95nt/l...

or visit this site and download either the slim line or full version for Windows XP http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/alternates/#sp

now place the following code into the a command line terminal

wine Shockwave_Installer_Full.exe

Once you've done that you then will need to copy the shockwave files into your Safari install plug in folder, place this code into your command line terminal

cp -R ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/Adobe/Director/* ~/.wine/drive_c/"Program Files"/Safari/Plugins

You can check it's worked by loading up Safari and going to Help > Installed Plug-ins

I thought this may interest some and could be helpful for some web developers.  When you think that now you can have Firefox, ie4linux, Safari, Opera you covered most popular browsers.  I'm not sure if it's me but i'm sure it's a wee bit faster than firefox too.

Long live the tux

Finux

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