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In this tutorial I will show you how to install PhotoShop CS2 on your Linux Machine using wine.  Wine has included support for PS upto 9.0 (CS2).

R equirements

• Wine version 0.9.54 or greater
• Adobe PhotoShop CS1 or CS2
  

Configuring Wine

Open a terminal window and type "winecfg":

$ winecfg                                                                                                       

You should see a window similar to this: 

 Since Adobe Photoshop CS2 is a Windows XP program we want wine to execute it in a Windows XP environment.  Select Windows XP in Windos Version.  Press OK.  If this isn't set correctly you will see this error message:

The next step is to actually run the PhotoShop CS2 installer using wine.  Put your Adobe Photoshop CD in and mount it (mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom   - works on some installations, others mount it automatically).  

Running Setup 

Change directory to your mounted cdrom with Adobe Photoshop CS2 in.

$ cd /mnt/cdrom
$ wine Setup.exe

 If this is the first time you have ran wine you will see messages similar to the following:

wine: creating configuration directory '/home/jordan/.wine'...
fixme:system.SetProcessDPIAware stub!
fixme:iphlpapi:NotifyAddrChange (Handle 0x7b5fd9e8, overlapped 0x7b5fd9cc): stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
wine: '/home/jordan/.wine' created successfully.

 If everything works as it should you will see the Adobe Photoshop installer.  

Errors?  (Skip this step if you see the Adobe Installer) 

If you get an error stating:

This software cannot be installed because JScript is not properly registered.
Please repair JScript and then restart the installer.

Follow these steps:

1. Copy these files from a Windows XP partion to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 : mshtml.dll, shdocvw.dll, urlmon.dll, shlwapi.dl, mlang.dll and jscript.dll.  These are all found in \windows\system32 on your Windows XP partition.
2.  In your terminal execute 'regsvr32 jscript.dll'
3. Execute 'wget kegel.com/winetricks'
4. Once the download is complete execute 'sh winetricks msxml3'
5. Execute 'winecfg'.  Set mshtml.dll, shdocvw.dll, urlmon.dll, shlwapi.dll, mlang.dll to native (see screenshot below).
   
6. Execute 'winetricks gdiplus'

Continue Installing...

Install Adobe Photoshop as you would in Windows.

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Running PhotoShop CS2 

When the installer finishes change directory to your wine home dir and Adobe installation path:

$ cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Adobe/Adobe\ Photoshop\ CS2

 Execute Photoshop:

$ wine Photoshop.exe

Congratulations! 

You now have Adobe Photoshop CS2 installed and working on Linux.  I created a shortcut on my desktop to execute 'wine Photoshop.exe'.  This is easier than changing directories to the wine installation directory.  Have fun, and enjoy!

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