I would like to read my Kindle books on my Asus 4G Surf using a big monitor. I'm using AntiX 486 M11 and have plugged a monitor in and set it up at 1280 x 1024 using Applications>Preferences>Multiple Screens. I also installed wine and then installed the kindle for pc exe software from Amazon's site from CLI with:

wine KindleForPC-installer.exe

it unpacked everything and I got no errors, but it didn't start. I've done this in Ubuntu and it's supposed to end by executing the Kindle program which it did not. I think it is looking for a GUI that it can use...I have it working in XFCE and GNOME. XFCE login doesn't work on my AntiX after I did the last update (my logout menu doesn't work either...I may just have some erroneous files).

I don't know why it didn't work as I didn't get any errors...it just hung until I hit CTRL-C. Maybe there's a log file somewhere for wine?

The command Ubuntu uses to start the Kindle app is this:

env WINEPREFIX="/home/tux/.wine" wine C:\\Program\ Files\\Amazon\\Kindle\\Kindle.exe

This just freezes up AntiX when I make this into an executable script called kindle.sh and then run it like this:

./kindle.sh

Anyone have any idea how I can get this to work?

Marty

Don't know about kindle and wine, but to fix your logout issue, you probably need to edit your /etc/sudoers file (as root)

See here:

post21732.html?hilit=/etc/sudoers#p21732

You can try tellico in repos (Synaptic). Unfortunatelly it's based on KDE (so some libs will install). If you feel more familiar with Debian you can try jets3t and kindleclip, also in repos.
Probably on any of this 2 ways you will not need Amazon under wine but i'm not sure as every person install differs.

calibre may be worth a look, it is in the repo as well

Have to recommend Calibre, it is an excellent product for ebook readers.

Kindle needs to
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linktext was:"run in Win98 mode"
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on WINE