Installed the latest version of Crossover today using Ubuntu 11.10.
Install seemed to go smoothly.
Then, tried to install Photoshop CS4 Extended. That did not go
well. I realize it is an unsupported application.
Now, I would like to go back and look at Crossover. In the old
days, I could invoke it from its icon on my gnome menu. I'm running
Unity, now, and cannot find an icon, and if I type Crossover in the
Dash Home box, nothing comes up.
The only way I can confirm that Crossover is installed is to click
some Windows setup icon and then click to open using Crossover.
If I open the Software Center box, I can search on Crossover, and
three applications appear, none of them show to be installed, none
offer me the option to install or remove.
Can someone tell me what is going on?
Thanks.
Caruso
Caruso,
I do not run Ubuntu, but it is possible that I may still be able to help you. How did you install? Was it via a .deb file or the generic installer? If it was via the .deb file, did it create a cxoffice folder in /opt? On my Fedora installation, that is where CrossOver is located. The bottles are in my home directory in the .cxoffice folder.
Unfortunately, I have absolutely no experience with Unity. Does it have a menu editor where you can add programs? Can you create your own launchers?
I would also refer you to file:///opt/cxoffice/doc/en/index.html, which is the help file which should have been installed when you installed CrossOver. The index lists this in Appendix A:
CrossOver creates two directories during its installation and setup. The installation process creates a directory structure at a user-specified location, whereas the setup directory is always in a fixed location relative to the user's home directory.
the Bottle Manager may also modify the MIME type associations on the system as well as the KDE and Gnome menus.
Installation Files
The location of the installed files can be specified during the installation, which defaults to ~/cxoffice for a non-root installation, and /opt/cxoffice for a root installation. The installation tree has the following structure:
bin This directory contains all the executable programs used by CrossOver. As a general rule, it is better to not place this directory into your PATH as it may conflict with other versions of Wine. We recommend creating symbolic links to individual programs in /usr/bin instead.
lib This directory contains all the shared object files used by CrossOver. Again, we recommend against adding this directory to your ld.so.conf or to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
doc This directory contains the CrossOver user guide.
.mojosetup This directory is generated during installation and contains information used during the uninstallation process.
share This directory contains supporting files used by CrossOver.
support This directory contains your system's published bottles.
support/installers This directory contains any installers that the Bottle Manager has downloaded for you.
etc. The etc directory contains the CrossOver configuration. This directory contains the following files:
cxoffice.conf The CrossOver configuration file. The variables are fairly heavily commented, so there is a good chance that if you were so inclined, you could meaningfully edit it with a text editor. However, note that for most users we recommend using the Bottle Manager to modify this file.
*.bak the Bottle Manager automatically backs up old versions of configuration files. It can get untidy--feel free to delete extraneous files.
~/.cxoffice. This directory contains all of the CrossOver settings, and all of your bottles.
~/.cxoffice/bottle-name. Each bottle directory contains the following files and directories:
*.reg Files that contain a simulated registry for the Windows environment.
drive_c A complete directory structure replicating a Windows environment.
I hope that this will help you to fix your problems.