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I managed to install and get Origin to work properly on crossover 19.0.1 on linux mint 19.3 xfce. I'd like to know if I can upload my exported bottle and use that as a cross tie.

Simone Garzieri wrote:

I managed to install and get Origin to work properly on crossover
19.0.1 on linux mint 19.3 xfce. I'd like to know if I can upload my
exported bottle and use that as a cross tie.

Do you mean using an exported bottle to install the software on another computer?

Exactly. If you try to install origin normally the setup will fail due to error 3.0, this happens because origin has the ability to change the permission setting of the installation folder. Origins sets the aforementioned folder into read only status this prevents the setup process to complete its task. In the winehq forum I found a perl script which uses Inotify2 linux package to watch the folder and prevent any change of behaviour of the selected folder. I don't know how to upload this script in the crosstie and have it executed while origin setup is proceeding, that's why I'd like to share my bootle with origin already installed so they can access origin just importing my archived bottle.

Well, I never tried, but probably the answer is yes. As far as I know a crosstie is a kind of script that Crossover uses.

There are some issues, though. You may have problems IF the hardware is not the same (especially the video board). There may be issues if you use a different host operating system (a Linux bottle may or may not work on a Mac and vice versa). Other frequent source of problems with wine and Crossover is some particularities in different Linux distros and with the version of your video driver. Also you will export all your data in the bottle, so you must be careful if you have sensitive information in it. There may be some copyright issues if copying the bottle for someone who does not own the software. Finally, you will export the entire bottle and that will consume more storage space.

All that said, it SHOULD work most of the time! 😉

Please let us know if you try it and it works!

I got your point and thanks for your support :). By the way the bottle is a "vanilla" one just a clean install of origin and nothing else. I exported this bottle from a pc with an nvidia card (with proprietary driver installed) and imported to a laptop with intel graphic card and it seems to work as good as before. I hope it can be useful to the other users. To avoid many compatibility issues the users can just use my bottle to copy the content of origin installation folder into their new one and use origin this way,avoiding the setup process.

I found an easy workaround for Origin, it works surely on both linux and mac.

Download the full Origin setup at this url https://download.dm.origin.com/origin/live/OriginSetup.exe . The trick won't work with the thin setup or web installer. Open the exe as an archive and extract its content in a folder of your choise. Open the extracted folder and go to update sub folder. Inside update folder there's an archive right click select extract here, open the extracted folder and select Origin.exe open it with crossover and the log in page of Origin will appear, log in and enjoy your EA games:). I posted this tip in the section tips and tricks but I can't find it anywhere :(...