Comments: How can I run TntMPD on Linux?

jkepler, "winetricks" might know of the most recent trick to get that installed.

For instructions on how I installed on TntMPD 3.0.39 Install on Ubuntu 14.04.02 with Unity see:

www.tntware.com/.../tntmpd-3-0-39-install-on-ubuntu-14-04-02-with-unity.aspx

Frederick

PlayOnLinux is also an easy (i..e. GUI based) way to install TnT for Linux. Cheers!

Hello, Im'm trying to installt TNTConnect in linuxmint 17 and get an error "could not load SSL library". Installing openssl-dev etc. changed nothing

Has someone an idea?

Thanks

I bet the Winetricks script has an option to install the MS XML Parser 6.0:  wiki.winehq.org/Winetricks  Try running that first, so that the TntConnect installation doesn't have to.

I cannot found any information for this winetricks option on the website.

Then I have download the necessary files manually from download.tntware.com but cannot install them in the wine drive.

Downloading exe-files from MS and installing them  works only for the Access Database Engine.

There are missing

mdac2.8  - not working, files I found are not installable in wine

MS Jet 4.0 SP8 - not working, files I found are not installable in wine

XML Parser is also installable from a MS file but the TNTConnect - Setup don't recognize it.

Google chromium embedded framework - I don't know which version and where to found it.

Other ideas?

Thanks

Christian

Are there any Linux-Ubuntu/Canonical masters looking at Snapcraft.io: "Package any app for every Linux desktop, server, cloud or device, and deliver updates directly."?

For a high-level briefing:

    Provenance

    www.markshuttleworth.com

https://snapcraft.io/create/">https://snapcraft.io/create/

plus.google.com/.../e6z1mSdsAhS

github.com/.../2.29

    UbuntuCore and Snappy Introduction by Cloud Academy

    www.youtube.com/watch

For a lower-level briefing:

https://snapcraft.io/

"A snap is a fancy zip file containing an application together with its dependencies, and a description of how it should safely be run on your system, especially the different ways it should talk to other software. Most importantly snaps are designed to be secure, sandboxed, containerised applications isolated from the underlying system and from other applications. Snaps allow the safe installation of apps from any vendor on mission critical devices and desktops."

en.wikipedia.org/.../Snappy_(package_manager)

"Snappy is a software deployment and package management system originally designed and built by Canonical for the Ubuntu phone operating system. The packages, called 'snaps' and the tool for using them 'snapd', work across a range of Linux distributions and allow therefore distro-agnostic upstream software deployment. The system is designed to work for phone, cloud, internet of things and desktop computing."

"In June 2016, snapd was ported to a wide range of Linux distributions to enable snaps to be used across any Linux distribution, not just the all-snap Ubuntu Core. snapd is also available or in progress for Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo Linux, OpenWrt, openSUSE and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Each distribution is able to interpret the snap metadata to implement the security or other expectations of the snap in a distribution-specific fashion."

See if you can use "winetricks" to install the MS XML Parser 6.0 before installing TntConnect.  That way TntConnect won't need to install it.

I am having similar issues with installing TntConnect.  I was able to use winetricks to install msdac 2.8, and MS Jet 4.0, and TntConnect recognises that they are installed but when using winetricks to install MS XML Parser 6.0, it does not recognise that it has been installed.  Also can't get it to recognise the chromium embedded framework installation.  Any thought?

This is a very important comment, though it seems to have been completely ignored. For most Linux users, wine is not a suitable option, even if it works for some in the short term. Can someone please answer the question: is there any development timeline for a native Linux version of this program?

Unfortunately, there are no plans for a native Linux version of TntConnect.  Linux is not an officially supported platform, just PC and Mac.  Is TntConnect on Wine not working for you?  Why do you say it's not a "suitable" option?

Hi Troy, the latest version of Linux Mint (19 - based on Ubuntu Bionic) appears to break support for the older versions of Wine which ran TNT successfully in the past. I was unable to get TNT working with the default Wine package (3.0.1-ubuntu). I also was unable to get it running with PlayOnLinux using the older versions that worked in the past. I've switched to a VirtualMachine running Windows 10 for now to get TNT working. I'll be curious to see if any other users can find the right combination of Wine packages to make it work with Wine 3.x versions.

Next year, I'm hoping to do a major refresh of TntConnect for Mac, to support Mac's soon to come requirement for 64-bit support.  So I believe I'll have to support the latest version of Wine at this point.  This will probably help with Wine support beyond that which TntConnect for Mac includes (which is Wine 1.7.53)

> Are there any Linux-Ubuntu/Canonical masters looking at Snapcraft.io: "Package any app for every Linux desktop, server, cloud or device, and deliver updates directly."?

Not at snap but at flatpak: I created a flatpak package for TntConnect: beilharz-family.de/.../tntconnect.html

I have was able to install the flatpak TntConnect but it will not connect to my database. Even if I try to make a new database it fails. the error message indicates the problems is with the path:

    The database cannot be opened on the C:\ drive because it is not in your "My Documents" or "Desktop" directory.

    Database = Z:\var\data\tntconnect\dosdevices\c:\users\kencora\My Documents\klay-tntmpd.mpddb

    My Documents = C:\users\kencora\My Documents

    Desktop = C:\users\kencora\Desktop.

I looked at the paths on my drive and they do not agree with the ones indicated above as I understand it. I do not see how to set the paths.