[BaseCamp] BaseCamp on Linux ??

[Tom]

> saddle sore wrote:
>> Any one successful with BaseCamp on Linux?
>
Sam wrote:
> Yes.
>
> Curious about this, today I installed wine on my Linux Mint 20.1 
> system. It also required winetricks to pre-install the required .net 
> levels before installing BaseCamp.
>
> BaseCamp_425 (the last support for XP), and BaseCamp_452 (for Win 7) 
> both install and run. I have not tried all the functions/features, so 
> they may not satisfy your needs.
>
> All releases after 452 (462 470 471 472 473) do not install.
>
> Also, I do not agree with the negative opinion of Virtual Box. Linux 
> (Ubuntu or Mint, my preference, which is built on Ubuntu) runs 
> perfectly well in as little as 2 gig memory. The other 2 gig in you 
> system can be given through Virtual Box to run Windows 7 very well at 
> near native speed. Win10 is another matter though. I easily run 2 or 
> three simultaneous VB systems on my 8 gig memory - but simultaneous 
> disk access is where they all slow down (even with KVM).
>
The Wine notes say you can install .Net 461 from Winetricks, then BC 
4.25 in Wine, then copy any later version from Windows into the BC 4.25 
folder in the Wine prefix and it'll "just work". I'm going to try this 
with 4.25 then 4.71 and see what happens.