Monthly Archive for December, 2010

wanted to run the kindle app on my note­book (ubuntu 11.04 64 bit) but strangely amazon don’t offer a linux version of their soft­ware despite the kindle being based on linux and them offer­ing an android version. the solu­tion? the latest wine beta.

to install the latest wine beta on 11.04 fire up syn­aptic package manager and select ‘set­tings’ and then ‘repos­it­or­ies’. click the ‘other soft­ware’ tab and then the ‘add’ button. enter ‘ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa’ in the dia­logue box and then click ‘add source’.

the next step is to change the distro version from natty to mav­er­ick (if you leave it set on natty then a 404 error appears). select one of the wine apt urls at the bottom at the bottom of the list and click ‘edit’. change natty to mav­er­ick and select ok.

now reload the soft­ware sources and search for wine1.3. right click and choose ‘mark for install­a­tion’. click apply at the top and wine1.3 will replace wine1.2.

down­load the kindle for pc applic­a­tion from here once you’ve down­loaded it mark the file as execut­able by right-clicking it, choos­ing per­mis­sions and ticking the ‘allow execut­ing file as a program’ option. once you’ve done this the soft­ware can be installed in the usual way and started from ‘applications/wine/programs/amazon’ etc