Trying to install MaxQDA on Mint using Wine

[kito314]

Hello everyone,

I need to use MaxQDA for University and I don't want to go back to Windows just to be able to use this software. I still don't know very much about Linux, so please be gentle. I use Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon Version 4.6.6. I used the following command to install MaxQDA

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wine msiexec /i MAXQDA2020_Setup.msi

Then the following output appeared.

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005d:err:richedit:ReadStyleSheet missing style number
name@name-ThinkPad-X220:~/programmes$ 0082:err:winediag:SECUR32_initNTLMSP ntlm_auth was not found or is outdated. Make sure that ntlm_auth >= 3.0.25 is in your path. Usually, you can find it in the winbind package of your distribution.
X Error of failed request:  GLXBadFBConfig
  Major opcode of failed request:  152 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  0 ()
  Serial number of failed request:  238
  Current serial number in output stream:  238
^C

The program seems to be there. When I press the windows key and search for "MaxQDA" it shows. But when I select it and try to start it nothing happens. What should I do? Should I start the program from the terminal? If so how?

[Hoser Rob]

Wine is actually rubbish and fails more often than not.

The results on the Wine app database aren't encouraging, there's an entry for Ubutnu 20.10 ratted Garbage here: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager. ... &iId=36376

This sounds like an important program to you so I certainly wouldn't advise anything as flaky as Wine for it. Use Windows.

[Flemur]

The program seems to be there.

What does that mean?

Have you read the installation guide?
https://www.maxqda.com/download/Install ... DA2020.pdf

Should I start the program from the terminal? If so how?

Find out where it was installed:

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find ~/.wine -iname "*maxq*"

or even

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find ~/.wine -iname "*maxq*exe"

Go there:

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cd ~/.wine/where/it/was/installed
ls *.exe

Run it

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wine one-of-those-exe-names.exe

Ignore what by Hoser Rob said about wine, but be aware that although many if not most windows programs run nicely, not all of them do.