Finally some of the Macromedia applications are working on Linux with the help of Wine. I really missed Dreamweaver that I used on my Windows machine and now I got it working on Ubuntu. Since I own Macromedia Studio 8, I also tried Fireworks 8 and Flash 8. Amazingly they work too :-)
This howto requires that you have a Wine version installed and working (I used 0.9.11 for this howto)

The only downside to getting these Macromedia applications working on linux is that you need to use a Windows machine to install them to. So boot some Windows machine and install your Macromedia Studio or specific applications onto it.

When you've finished installing the applications you need to zip/tar/rar a lot of files. The following (Windows) directories you need to compress, then copy to your linux machine and then decompress:
Directory on Windows Directory on Linux
C:\Program Files\Macromedia\
/home/[username]/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Macromedia/

C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\

/home/[username]/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/Macromed/

C:\Documents and Settings\All users\Application data\Macromedia\

/home/[username]/.wine/drive_c/windows/profile/All Users/Application

Data/Macromedia/
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Macromedia\

/home/[username].wine/drive_c/Program Files/Common Files/Macromedia/

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Macromedia Shared\

/home/[username]/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Common Files/Macromedia Shared/

Congratulations! You should now be able to run Dreamweaver 8, Fireworks 8 or Flash 8 on your Windows machine with Wine!


In case you run into some strange errors related to the registry you could always export the Macromedia registry entries from Windows and import them with Wine. I don't think you'll need it, but just in case, I'll explain how you can do this.

First you need to open regedit.
Then you need to Export the entire HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Macromedia/ directory as a registry file.
Now you can copy the file to your linux machine.
On your linux machine you can open regedit using wine regedit
Finally you can Import your registry file and you're done.

Note: If wine/regedit complains about the encoding (UTF-8, ASCII) you can open the registry with Gedit and then save it with a ASCII encoding for full compatability.
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