kindle will not load in 11.10

Asked by Cliffm

 Hi there
Just up-graded from 11.04 to 11.10. Had problems with up-grade, took all day, had to installed wiping out 11.04. Kindle will not load. When I try this is the error

Archive: /home/cjm/Downloads/KindleForPC-installer (3).exe
[/home/cjm/Downloads/KindleForPC-installer (3).exe]
  End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
  a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
  latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
  the last disk(s) of this archive.
zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /home/cjm/Downloads/KindleForPC-installer (3).exe or
          /home/cjm/Downloads/KindleForPC-installer (3).exe.zip, and cannot find /home/cjm/Downloads/KindleForPC-installer (3).exe.ZIP, period.

Loaded wine 1.3 from Ubuntu Software Center.
Down loaded Kindle, and installed it. Got error.

manually installed wine and kindle as follows
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.3

sudo apt-get install wine lib32nss-mdns
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
sh winetricks corefont
wget http://ap.smu.ca/~taro/software/KindleForPC-installer.exe
wine KindleForPC-installer.exe

Still can not get Kindle to install

any help?
Thanks Cliff

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Cliffm (c2mcatee) said :
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Hello
I am adding what happens
Its long but may be of help
Thanks
Cliff
cjm@cliffm:~$ wine KindleForPC-installer.exe
cjm@cliffm:~$ wine: Call from 0x7ed66629 to unimplemented function msvcp90.dll.?reserve@?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@QAEXI@Z, aborting
wine: Unimplemented function msvcp90.dll.?reserve@?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@QAEXI@Z called at address 0x7ed66629 (thread 002c), starting debugger...
Unhandled exception: unimplemented function msvcp90.dll.?reserve@?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@QAEXI@Z called in 32-bit code (0x7ed66629).
Register dump:
 CS:0023 SS:002b DS:002b ES:002b FS:0063 GS:006b
 EIP:7ed66629 ESP:0033fae0 EBP:0033fbb8 EFLAGS:00200246( - -- I Z- -P- )
 EAX:7ed51ee5 EBX:7edcfff4 ECX:00000000 EDX:80000100
 ESI:80000100 EDI:0033fc30
Stack dump:
0x0033fae0: 0033fb64 00000008 00000080 80000100
0x0033faf0: 00000001 00000000 7ed66629 00000002
0x0033fb00: 7dfc4460 7dfea3ef 00000000 00000000
0x0033fb10: 00000001 7efe3ff4 00000002 7ef64acd
0x0033fb20: 001e1820 0001009c 00000010 00000007
0x0033fb30: 7efa6c2b 0033fc30 0033fc7c 00000006
Backtrace:
=>0 0x7ed66629 in kernel32 (+0x26629) (0x0033fbb8)
  1 0x80000100 (0x0033fbb8)
  2 0x0043f630 in kindleforpc (+0x3f62f) (0x0033fbe0)
  3 0x0043ec11 in kindleforpc (+0x3ec10) (0x7e7f4c60)
0x7ed66629: subl $4,%esp
Modules:
Module Address Debug info Name (109 modules)
PE 400000- e2f000 Export kindleforpc
ELF 7bf00000-7bf04000 Deferred <wine-loader>
ELF 7d30e000-7d32c000 Deferred wintab32<elf>
  \-PE 7d310000-7d32c000 \ wintab32
ELF 7d32c000-7d34e000 Deferred localspl<elf>
  \-PE 7d330000-7d34e000 \ localspl
ELF 7d34e000-7d357000 Deferred librt.so.1
ELF 7d357000-7d35c000 Deferred libgpg-error.so.0
ELF 7d35c000-7d373000 Deferred libresolv.so.2
ELF 7d373000-7d377000 Deferred libkeyutils.so.1
ELF 7d377000-7d3c0000 Deferred libdbus-1.so.3
ELF 7d3c0000-7d445000 Deferred libgcrypt.so.11
ELF 7d445000-7d457000 Deferred libtasn1.so.3
ELF 7d457000-7d460000 Deferred libkrb5support.so.0
ELF 7d460000-7d489000 Deferred libk5crypto.so.3
ELF 7d489000-7d552000 Deferred libkrb5.so.3
ELF 7d552000-7d565000 Deferred libavahi-client.so.3
ELF 7d565000-7d573000 Deferred libavahi-common.so.3
ELF 7d573000-7d623000 Deferred libgnutls.so.26
ELF 7d623000-7d661000 Deferred libgssapi_krb5.so.2
ELF 7d661000-7d6b3000 Deferred libcups.so.2
ELF 7d6b7000-7d6d2000 Deferred spoolss<elf>
  \-PE 7d6c0000-7d6d2000 \ spoolss
ELF 7d717000-7d74e000 Deferred uxtheme<elf>
  \-PE 7d720000-7d74e000 \ uxtheme
ELF 7d74e000-7d754000 Deferred libxfixes.so.3
ELF 7d754000-7d75f000 Deferred libxcursor.so.1
ELF 7d760000-7d764000 Deferred libcom_err.so.2
ELF 7d7ca000-7d7f4000 Deferred libexpat.so.1
ELF 7d7f4000-7d829000 Deferred libfontconfig.so.1
ELF 7d829000-7d839000 Deferred libxi.so.6
ELF 7d839000-7d83d000 Deferred libxcomposite.so.1
ELF 7d83d000-7d846000 Deferred libxrandr.so.2
ELF 7d846000-7d851000 Deferred libxrender.so.1
ELF 7d851000-7d857000 Deferred libxxf86vm.so.1
ELF 7d857000-7d85b000 Deferred libxinerama.so.1
ELF 7d85b000-7d87a000 Deferred libxcb.so.1
ELF 7d97b000-7d982000 Deferred libxdmcp.so.6
ELF 7d982000-7d99c000 Deferred libice.so.6
ELF 7d99c000-7dad2000 Deferred libx11.so.6
ELF 7dad2000-7dae5000 Deferred libxext.so.6
ELF 7dae5000-7db96000 Deferred winex11<elf>
  \-PE 7daf0000-7db96000 \ winex11
ELF 7db96000-7dc2d000 Deferred libfreetype.so.6
ELF 7dc4c000-7dd60000 Deferred oleaut32<elf>
  \-PE 7dc60000-7dd60000 \ oleaut32
ELF 7dd60000-7dd84000 Deferred imm32<elf>
  \-PE 7dd70000-7dd84000 \ imm32
ELF 7dd84000-7ddb8000 Deferred ws2_32<elf>
  \-PE 7dd90000-7ddb8000 \ ws2_32
ELF 7ddb8000-7ddee000 Deferred wintrust<elf>
  \-PE 7ddc0000-7ddee000 \ wintrust
ELF 7ddee000-7dea9000 Deferred crypt32<elf>
  \-PE 7de00000-7dea9000 \ crypt32
ELF 7dea9000-7ded8000 Deferred msvcr90<elf>
  \-PE 7deb0000-7ded8000 \ msvcr90
ELF 7ded8000-7df73000 Deferred msvcrt<elf>
  \-PE 7def0000-7df73000 \ msvcrt
ELF 7df73000-7e055000 Deferred msvcp90<elf>
  \-PE 7df90000-7e055000 \ msvcp90
ELF 7e055000-7e092000 Deferred winspool<elf>
  \-PE 7e060000-7e092000 \ winspool
ELF 7e0b3000-7e0b9000 Deferred libuuid.so.1
ELF 7e0b9000-7e0c2000 Deferred libsm.so.6
ELF 7e0c9000-7e1c4000 Deferred comdlg32<elf>
  \-PE 7e0d0000-7e1c4000 \ comdlg32
ELF 7e1c4000-7e1ef000 Deferred msacm32<elf>
  \-PE 7e1d0000-7e1ef000 \ msacm32
ELF 7e1ef000-7e26d000 Deferred rpcrt4<elf>
  \-PE 7e200000-7e26d000 \ rpcrt4
ELF 7e26d000-7e39c000 Deferred ole32<elf>
  \-PE 7e280000-7e39c000 \ ole32
ELF 7e39c000-7e440000 Deferred winmm<elf>
  \-PE 7e3a0000-7e440000 \ winmm
ELF 7e440000-7e542000 Deferred comctl32<elf>
  \-PE 7e450000-7e542000 \ comctl32
ELF 7e542000-7e766000 Deferred shell32<elf>
  \-PE 7e550000-7e766000 \ shell32
ELF 7e766000-7e7d9000 Deferred shlwapi<elf>
  \-PE 7e770000-7e7d9000 \ shlwapi
ELF 7e7d9000-7e842000 Deferred advapi32<elf>
  \-PE 7e7e0000-7e842000 \ advapi32
ELF 7e842000-7e8fc000 Deferred gdi32<elf>
  \-PE 7e850000-7e8fc000 \ gdi32
ELF 7e8fc000-7ea4d000 Deferred user32<elf>
  \-PE 7e910000-7ea4d000 \ user32
ELF 7ea4d000-7ea73000 Deferred mpr<elf>
  \-PE 7ea50000-7ea73000 \ mpr
ELF 7ea73000-7ea88000 Deferred libz.so.1
ELF 7ea88000-7eafa000 Deferred wininet<elf>
  \-PE 7ea90000-7eafa000 \ wininet
ELF 7eafa000-7eb07000 Deferred libnss_files.so.2
ELF 7eb07000-7eb13000 Deferred libnss_nis.so.2
ELF 7eb13000-7eb2c000 Deferred libnsl.so.1
ELF 7ed2c000-7eee5000 Dwarf kernel32<elf>
  \-PE 7ed40000-7eee5000 \ kernel32
ELF 7eee5000-7ef0f000 Deferred libm.so.6
ELF 7ef10000-7ef14000 Deferred libxau.so.6
ELF 7ef14000-7ef2e000 Deferred version<elf>
  \-PE 7ef20000-7ef2e000 \ version
ELF 7ef2e000-7f000000 Deferred ntdll<elf>
  \-PE 7ef40000-7f000000 \ ntdll
ELF f74a3000-f74a8000 Deferred libdl.so.2
ELF f74a8000-f7622000 Deferred libc.so.6
ELF f7623000-f763e000 Deferred libpthread.so.0
ELF f7652000-f765c000 Deferred libnss_compat.so.2
ELF f765d000-f77a1000 Dwarf libwine.so.1
ELF f77a3000-f77c3000 Deferred ld-linux.so.2
ELF f77c3000-f77c4000 Deferred [vdso].so
Threads:
process tid prio (all id:s are in hex)
0000000e services.exe
 0000001e 0
 0000001d 0
 00000018 0
 00000017 0
 00000015 0
 00000010 0
 0000000f 0
00000012 winedevice.exe
 00000019 0
 00000014 0
 00000013 0
0000001a plugplay.exe
 0000001f 0
 0000001c 0
 0000001b 0
00000020 explorer.exe
 00000021 0
0000002b (D) C:\Program Files\Amazon\Kindle For PC\KindleForPC.exe
 0000002c 0 <==
Backtrace:
=>0 0x7ed66629 in kernel32 (+0x26629) (0x0033fbb8)
  1 0x80000100 (0x0033fbb8)
  2 0x0043f630 in kindleforpc (+0x3f62f) (0x0033fbe0)
  3 0x0043ec11 in kindleforpc (+0x3ec10) (0x7e7f4c60)
wine: Call from 0x7ed66629 to unimplemented function msvcp90.dll.?reserve@?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@QAEXI@Z, aborting

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Cliffm (c2mcatee) said :
#2

Hello
This may be the reason, I was unawre that Amozon had opened a cloud version of kindle. Once getting this loaded the kindle app works well.
This request is now a dead issue.
Thanks for your time