Hi,
Has anyone gotten Codebook running in WINE? The installer runs fine, but the application itself won’t start. It looks like WINE is missing some .net/mono components.
Hey, I have Codebook running in wine. My distro (fedora 29) has wine-4.0-rc6, but I’ve actually been using Codebook under wine for months. I use it every day / depend on it.
I used winetricks to install:
corefonts
dotnet40
winhttp
wininet
wsh57
I’m not sure how many of those are actually required; some trial-and-error was obviously required to get everything working.
I use Google Drive sync between all of my devices, and unfortunately I was NOT able to get Google authorization working at all under Wine. YMMV obviously, but I could never get it working.
However, I WAS able to get Google Drive synchronization working by setting up Codebook for Windows set up on a temporary windows partition, then copying over the configuration files. That seemed to “carry over” the authorization token, and allow Codebook to sync successfully under wine.
Good luck! Maybe someday Zetetic will release a QT version or something that works equally well on all platforms. 
I got codebook to install under wine, installed the sync code, but the authorization hangs for dropbox. It launches the website authorization page, and I was already logged in, but upon clicking “allow” it just hangs and spins. The message on the bottom is “waiting for localhost”.
Any idea how to solve this - I’m almost there after much struggle!
Hi @strannik
My apologizes for the delayed reply. Would you check to make sure you aren’t blocking on port 57419? During the authorization phase with Dropbox, Dropbox will complete the authorization by redirecting to a local endpoint temporarily running over port 57419 (the same port which we use for our local WiFi sync service) to receive the authentication token.
Any idea where I would deal with that? I don’t have a firewall running on my Linux Mint install, and I didn’t think wine had one either.
We have just released support for running Codebook on Linux! More information can be found here.
I have it running (maybe not well) in Zorin. I am not that productive with Linux so I’m no authority. I have had a crash and have the backtrace.txt but didn’t send it because as I said it crashed. I have used it to login to sites. I understand that the Secret Agent isn’t there as it is on other platforms. I had trouble getting SA keybinding on one keyboard but the second I was able to set it. am still testing and it is something I’ve been waiting for. Will forge on as I have time to explore.
Hi @lwetzel,
Glad to hear you were able to get Codebook running on Zorin! If you have an error, please feel free to share it with us, we’d be happy to look a bit closer. As always, you can send it to us at support@zetetic.net.
Hey Nick,
I had trouble getting Secret Agent to work. Changed keyboard and got it to work. But, today neither keyboard wants to do it. I remember seeing something related to Secret Agent but I can’t seem to find it again. Is this a thing with Wine or Codebook?
I did find your post about limitations. I did find it did not insert but yesterday it did atleast let me search for the correct entry and then cut and paste. But as I mentioned it is not doing that today. Booted and tried several times.
Lew Wetzel