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I've just got Ubuntu up and running-ish :op - the main reason im trying it is becuase I want to learn Apple Shake via an online course and I dont have a Mac.

I've downloaded a torrent for Shake for now: http://www.torrentspy.com/torrent/1271697/Shake_4_linux - but i'm lost as to how I install it.

When unpacked I have a series of folders and 2 files at root level as you can see here: http://img2.putfile.com/main/8/23509214637.jpg

Within the Bin folder there are a couple of .exe's but if I click on them nothing happens - there are no install instructions within the MSInfo file.

*Any* help would be appreciated, i really need this asap for course :)

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Craig Huffstetler (xq) said : 		#1

Ubuntu is not going to run .exe or other Microsoft Window files in native format. I believe you will either have to run WINE (check out their site) to open these, if it supports these files or dual boot into Windows.

SHAKE DOES COME IN LINUX FORMAT. However, this is paid for. I am not sure if you will be able to find an evaluation version anywhere. The main problem is you downloaded the Windows version.

Check out:

http://forums.cgsociety.org/archive/index.php/t-152759.html
Official site:
http://www.apple.com/shake/
(It is paid for for Linux...)

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linuxnoob (artybrown) said : 		#2

Aha! - that's great, I didn't realise the download from the Apple site should work with Linux, hence me trying that torrent.

I've downloaded the trial version now, and it's in a .dmg format, which a bit of googling showed to be an Apple compressed file. I've tried opening this with MagicISO within Windows so I could burn the image to install the trial version but it wont open. Have tried another piece of software to convert it to ISO but that wont open it either :o(

I found this: http://baghira.sourceforge.net/dmg.htm - on how to use .dmg's within linux but, logged on as root, when I type in the command as instructed:

mount -t hfs -o loop /root/Desktop/Shake4.dmg /macdisk it says:

mount: mount point /macdisk does not exist

*Any* help appreciated - as far as I understand it, i've followed the instructions correctly - the file I want to mount 'Shake4.dmg' is saved to the Desktop??? :-(

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Urbán Dániel (urban.dani) said : 		#3

With the command `mount -t hfs -o loop /root/Desktop/Shake4.dmg /macdisk` yout try to mount to the /macdisk directory, which isn't exsist. So, you should create it with `mkdir /macdisk` (Or maybe `mkdir /media/macdisk` would be better. In this case the mount command would be `mount -t hfs -o loop /root/Desktop/Shake4.dmg /media/macdisk` of course.)
After the mount you should reach the contents of the .dmg file from the /media/macdisk directory.

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linuxnoob (artybrown) said : 		#4

Thanks for the input :)

I tried what you suggested, the mkdir command worked but when executing the mount command I got the error:

wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
missing codepage or other error
in some cases useful info if found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

Any suggestions? Feels like i'm getting close but still no cigar! :-/

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Urbán Dániel (urban.dani) said : 		#5

It looks like mount doesn't know this filesystem type.
Maybe installing the "hfsutils" package will solve the problem.

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