How to get Autocad 2008 to run in Ubuntu 9.10

posted by Jordan Peterson on Thu, 01/21/2010 - 06:48

The goal of this document, is to get AutoCad 2008 to run in Linux Ubuntu 9.10 through an emulator known as wine. First I tried 2010 to no avail, then 2009.. Lastly 2008 stuck. I don't see much point in running VM or XEN with a copy of Windows running, when the point of switching to Linux was to rid of the tiresome Windows maintenance schedule altogether.

NOTE: This document is incomplete until further notice. I haven't yet gotten AutoCad 2009 to run in Ubuntu 9.10, but working on it. References made herein are to resemble what has been done so far.

Install Wine Emulator

apt-get install wine1.2

Install Winetricks

cd ~/Downloads

wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks

sh winetricks corefonts vcrun

sh winetricks dotnet30

Installed Autodesk Autocad 2008. It works, have not tested much yet.