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I attempted to install Kindle for PC on my Ubuntu 18.04 laptop with this command:

wine KindleForPc-installer-1.25.52064.exe

But I got this error:

error screenshot

I cannot make sense of it, being a casual user. Could anybody suggest a way to get out of this problem?

The terminal displays the text below as soon as the error box pops up. 

[WARN][MazamaLog] QObject::startTimer: Timers can only be used with 
threads started with QThread
[ERROR][VersionInfo] Build version is not of the form 
major.minor.patch.revision
[INFO][CMetricsManager] Reporting the following metric 190202:132926 
Mazama: I Application:MZMA_OpenAfterFirstTimeInstall:
0030:err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code 80000003 flags 0 
addr 0x7bc7da14

Nothing happens once cancel is selected to debug.

Alok
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3 Answers3

4

you should use the command winetricks, and then choose:

install an application

Kindle for PC is there, in an older version that works on Wine.

stex
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1

To get newer versions running you need to apply the workaround mentioned here: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46320

In short you just need to create the following folder structure yourself:

users/<your username>/AppData/Local/Amazon/Kindle/crashdump

Afterwards the program shouldn't crash anymore on startup

EDIT:

Alternatively make sure you use a more modern version of Wine. When I tried Wine 7.22, this bug doesn't occur.

BuggStream
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0

Create a 32bit prefix and from then on it works fine. For how to do that, see here.

Joro
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