Blackberry Desktop Forum

Good news! It installs! (mostly)
The Roxio Media Manager part doesn't seem to install.
It also recognises when a black berry has been plugged in but it quickly looses connection.
Besides installing nothing seems to work so I have to give it a doesn't work rating.

During installing the bar showing installation progress doesn't move. So there is no visual feed back as to if the program installed or not. I just waited for a while and then quitted the installer.

Bugs:
The Device manager doesn't seem to work at all and the Roxio Media manager didn't install. The Desktop manager gives an error (error code 0x0000007e) saying that the mail system interface library couldn't be loaded. Possibly an error during the install.

RIM is finally releasing a BB Desktop version for MAC. (source: Ars Technica)
RIM 4 Mac in September 2009

One big question here that I need to ask is if the MAC version would run more easily on Linux? Since OSX IS a derivative of Unix as is Linux should it not be more similar to what a native Linux version would be?

Also what I'm doing here is running virtual machines for a Network Engineering course running two Windows 2003 Exchange servers and Linux as a client to sync the BlackBerry device with the server (as if it was set up in a corporate environment).

So far I have been able to install Office 2003, BlackBerry Desktop Manager 4.7, and a BlackBerry Simulator (8703e) without any problems. The problem I'm facing now is that I can't enable USB sync in the simulator and Desktop Manager won't see the exchange mail settings from Outlook (says it can't find any settings).'

I initially tried all this with Crossover Games since I own that one but that was a complete bust, so I downloaded and installed the trial of Crossover Linux and I got much further.

Anyone with any suggestions?

On the Mac version the answer is no.
It would be easier for RIM to port the Mac version to Linux (as they share a lot of under pinnings) but because the libraries are completely different you'd need an implementation of those on Linux if you just wanted to run the Mac program on Linux. I don't know anybody actively working on that. It is not an easy task. Most programs in Linux use QT or GTK libraries whereas Mac uses Cocoa or Carbon (and those are proprietary).

No clue about the virtual machines etc. That's beyond my current knowledge.

Note that RIM release a new Blackberry desktop manager after 4.7 and I can't get it to work even slightly like 4.7 did.