Install Google SketchUp (CAD style app) in Ubuntu using Wine

This post was written by admin on August 26, 2010
Posted Under: General

Google SketchUp is a very popular,CAD style appliction.It is free but only Windows and Mac packages provided.This simple tutorial shows how to install Google SketchUp using Wine for Ubuntu user.

1.First of all,install wine or upgrade you wine to the latest version.It is best to have at least 1.1.11 of wine.
open up a terminal window and run following command to install wine from PPA:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine

2.Go to Applications->Wine->Configure Wine.In Application tab,set the default Windows to XP

3.Now,download SketchUp from:http://sketchup.google.com/intl/en/download/gsu.html.
Right-click on the package,and choose “Open with Wine Windows Program Loader”.Simply follow the prompts,accept all default settings, and it should install no problem at all.

4.Finally,SketchUp need some Windows files,and we can install them using winetricks.

download winetricks with following command:

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

then install the Windows files:

sh winetricks corefonts vcrun6 vcrun2005

Now,click Applications -> Wine ->Programs -> Google SketchUp 7 -> Google SketchUp and SketchUp will load.

BTW:
1.The installer put two links on the desktop,you can delete them because those are for Windows.
2.You should make sure you have nVidia drivers installed,the Wine homepage says:‘you probably need nvidia’s proprietary graphics driver.The open-source nv driver isn’t good enough yet’.

Hi. This was very useful. I did run into an issue with regards to permissions. If you get an error after right-clicking and trying to run the installer, then right-click the file, go to Properties, select the Permissions tab, and check the box at the bottom that says Allow executing file as program. It should work after that.

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Written By Michael on August 29th, 2010 @ 10:49 am

I had some problems after selecting the template. I get this errors and then crashes:
http://imagebin.org/114124
http://imagebin.org/114125

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admin Reply:
September 15th, 2010 at 6:01 am

You graphics card driver was not properly installed.I mentioned it in the post,you’d better install the graphics driver properly first!

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Written By Pablo on September 14th, 2010 @ 2:51 pm

or use this:

(Version 8.0.3117)
like in previews versions, wait for the first startup to crash with “unable to initialize OpenGL”

then change the following key in the Wine registry:
HKEY_USERS/S-1-5-4/Software/Google/SketchUp8/GLConfig/Display HW_OK = 1

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=21290

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Jacson Reply:
November 15th, 2011 at 7:42 am

Thank you so much!
Muito obrigado mesmo!

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Written By Jay-bob on November 24th, 2010 @ 5:43 am

I am trying to install Google Sketchup and it seemed to install ok but when I click on start using sketchup 8 I get the following message. “Sketchup was unable to initialize OpenGL! Please make sure you have installed the correct drivers for your graphics card”. Error: ChoosePixelFormat failed.

I don’t know how to perform this request.

Would you please help me with this problem?

I really need to be able to use this program.

Thank you very much for your time and concideration.

Jim

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