[Affinity Suite v2.0.4 on linux [ Wine ]]

On 5/8/2023 at 5:10 AM, Grunt said:

So as requested, here is slightly modified wine-git PKGBUILD.

Disclaimer: Please don't push it into AUR or any other repo. AUR is full of orphaned one-use packages without any maintainer. There is no need for just one more. Thank you. You need to share modifications, share it here. You need support, ask here or anywhere on this forum.

TLDR: uninstall any Wine you may have installed, extract it to somewhere with enough space (my current build: 40683 entries, size 5,2GB):

• ~/build/packages default on Arch
• /var/tmp/pamac when using pamac on Manjaro

cd there; makepkg -i, wait hours and try winecfg after installation

Rest is same. I haven't even bothered with rum on winetricks, simply installed dontet48, WinRT files, Affinity from MSI and it works just fine.

makepkg: Run just this for creating package to be manually installed afterwards

makepkg -e: When rebuilding or if you need to make modification in source code (like version number)

One bug I know about is version number. Result will be probably something like wine-git-7.9-5442-gdb8b984c1f8.pkg.tar.zst. No worries, it is latest Wine 8.7 with patches for Affinity:

One protip: If running on Nvidia cards and you want to use Vulkan, don't forget to install proprietary drivers and run any Affinity application on right GPU (on multi-GPU setup is Intel GPU by default):

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Affinity Photo 2
Exec=prime-run wine /home/username/.wine/drive_c/Affinity/Photo/Photo.exe
Terminal=true #to observe any errors

No idea how it works on AMD/ATI cards. I have simple Budgie box with nothing more than default installation, browser, terminal and Affinity apps and I can fairly recommend this setup:

Since Affinity Suite is terrible bloatware (beware of memory leaks - I've encountered few already), might be good idea to work on something light (Budgie, LXQT, XFCE). Crashes and freezes are frequent, but since Serif officially declined any support on platforms other than Windows/Mac is better than nothing. Community is always here to help I guess.

Enjoy,

-Grunt

wine-git.PKGBUILD.tar.gz 2.21 kB · 13 downloads

I tested this in distrobox and it worked like a charm (it did take about an hour lol)

[Affinity Suite v2.0.4 on linux [ Wine ]]

Does anyone else run into an issue when you export a file it locks up the program?  I noticed that it will fully export properly, just the program locks up and eventually terminates.

[Affinity Suite v2.0.4 on linux [ Wine ]]

On 4/2/2023 at 7:56 PM, Alpadesign said:

To me from this error (sorry for my english)

"rum ElementalWarrior-8.3 /home/alessandro/.WineAffinity wine /home/alessandro affinity-designer-msi-2.0.4.exe
Rumming /opt/wines/ElementalWarrior-8.3 (wine-5.0.3 (Debian 5.0.3-3)) in: /home/alessandro/.WineAffinity
000d:err:module:__wine_process_init L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winemenubuilder.exe" not found
000b:err:wineboot:process_run_key Error running cmd L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winemenubuilder.exe -a -r" (126).
0009:err:module:__wine_process_init failed to load L"F:\\home\\alessandro", error c00000ba"

Did dotnet install properly?  I got an error like that in pop_os when dotnet didn't install, likely due to a build error caused by some 32bit development files not installing properly, specifically I had issues with 32-bit freetype2.  In my case, winetricks would try to load dotnet and it would immediately fail.

I ended up popping over to my Manjaro install, following all instructions (and using the build dependencies listed in @Wanesty post above) and everything worked without a hitch.