I have recently been able to make it work under WINE, and have updated the
documentation page accordingly[1].  It did take a series of winetricks(1)
incantations to get it to work.  It's quite brittle.  In particular, make
sure you're specifying WINARCH=32.

   A.

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Mono_and_Wine&diff=681340924&oldid=681113160


On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 2:39 AM, Fæ <[email protected]> wrote:

> It's been several years since I used AWB for anything serious, precisely
> because it only runs under Windows.
>
> The conventional advice is to run it in a windows emulator, such as Wine,
> Parallels or Virtualbox. Folks talk about porting it, but I suspect this
> will never happen.
>
> Fae
> On 28 Dec 2015 10:36, "Tito Dutta" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > In last 2 years I have contacted every help section from AWB talk page,
> > Ubuntu help forum etc.
> > Trying this medium as well:
> > Can someone tell me how to use AWB on Ubuntu?
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