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.

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