Installing Photoshop CS2 on Linux – The easy way; without a Windows OS

I searched google for a while today looking for some straight forward tutorials on the easiest way to get Photoshop CS2 up and running on my Suse machine but found that a lot of people were doing it the hard way. So I figured I’d write a little something on my effortless installation of Photoshop I did today

I’m using the following things:
Suse 10.3 with KDE (but any distro will work)
Photoshop CS2 in ISO version
Wine (latest version)
AcetoneISO2

First install AcetoneISO2, you should be able to find that with your package manager with no problem. If you’re running any rpm based distro you can do
rpm -i ACEtone-version.rpm
Once you’ve installed Acetone, run the program (you can now find it under Utilities/More Programs in the kicker menu on KDE3), you should get a window resembling the one below.

I think my photo is cut off a bit because of the size, but Im too lazy to resize it for you Mount should be to the right side of the window.

Click mount and go to the place where your ISO image is stored on your drive and hit open. Open a shell (I’m doing this under root btw but you shouldnt heh) and type wine /root/virtual-drives/1/Setup.exe

The adobe setup screen should pop up in a moment, click through it as you would normally until you reach the screen asking you to install it to a particular path, this path should work but if it doesn’t try installing it to c:/windows/programfiles/photoshopcs2 which you can type in by hand in the field. Go ahead and click okay and insert your serial number etc. The installation should finish in a few minutes and w00t! You have just installed CS2 without having a copy of Windows installed anywhere on your machine.

To run photoshop, in the command line, type
wine .wine/drive_c/windows/programfiles/photoshopcs2/Photoshop.exe
or whatever path you installed it to and your copy of Photoshop should run. Personally, after I tested to make sure it ran, I added a shortcut to my taskbar.

Wine should now run Photoshop CS2 independent of the Windows operating system.

No one expects the Spanish inquisition!

Some photos taken in Spain, all photos can be maximized by clicking the image

Photos: Brussels, Belgium

We’ve finally arrived in Belgium. There’s so much here to shoot, it’s insane.

Newest Photos from Suriname

I’ll be leaving South America soon for Europe again and I thought I’d post my most recent photos since I’ve been here.
It’s been a wonderful experience being able to stay here and photograph the things I have. The animals here are wonderful and

I’m always amazed to see Parrots, Monkeys and Parakeets roaming around free in my backyard.
I’ll be going out into the interior today on my motorcycle.

I hope to shoot some villages while I’m there. I have tons more stuff I didn’t post here, up on Flickr, if you want to check them out.
I don’t really post here on myspace anymore, as you could probably tell. However, I basically only post things to Flickr. I try to keep that place updated constantly, as its the easiest to

do so with.
Anyway… Hope everyone had a great weekend. I’m out. *hugs*

Moving back to Europe

We’ve decided to cancel our plans to build a house here for the moment and return back to Europe. Lucien is looking at a job with Google in security in Ireland and I’m planning to start school this fall for photography in the UK.

Its been a while since I’ve posted here, I know. Mostly due to time constraints. You can find all of my new photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixiemeat/.
It’s too time consuming for me to upload them to photobucket and post them here, so I hope you don’t mind. They’re mostly of animals native to Suriname such as the Toucan, Spider Monkey and Anaconda.

Let me know what you think.

Ciao,
Jessica