How-To: Digsby+Wine at kyleabaker.com

After getting back into the Digsby scene again I decided it was time to get Digsby running in Ubuntu. I grabbed the latest installer and was well on my way.

I’ll just break down the steps so you can follow along. Depending on the distro that you are using, these steps may vary.

Install the newest version of Wine that you can (in my case I just went with Wine 1.0).
Open up a terminal window and enter the following lines (one at a time ):
wget http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks
sh winetricks corefonts dotnet20 gdiplus
As a safety measure (it may not make a difference at all) I opened the “Configure Wine” application and set the default settings Windows Version to “Windows 2000″. This has seemed to help make applications work in Wine in the past.
Now download Digsby. I used the latest version which was for testers and should be released very soon. So for now just grab your installation from here.
Install Digsby. In most distros of Linux you can just right click on the install file and click Open with “Wine Windows Program Loader”. Follow the steps through the installation and launch Digsby. Everything should be working now!

Basically all you had to do was install the .NET 2.0 framework and gdiplus. I’m not positive on corefonts, but they will only improve compatibility.

Everything seems to be working great! I notice some odd behavior here and there, but the application itself is working great! The only thing that is a bit annoying is that Facebook will occasionally disconnect, but it immediately reconnects.

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1 DazzlinDonna
September 18, 2008 at 10:16 am

using Firefox 3.0.1 on GNU/Linux
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008072820 Firefox/3.0.1
bah, i almost got excited, because everything almost worked, except for the fact that i couldn’t actually open a chat window with anyone. their im’s get through because i can see them in history, but i can’t actually communicate with anyone. /sigh…soooo close.
2 Altay
September 18, 2008 at 5:01 pm

using Firefox 3.0.1 on GNU/Linux
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008072820 Firefox/3.0.1
If Digsby is able to connect and show you your buddies, but doesn’t respond when you try to double click on them to chat with them, there’s a very simple solution.

From Digsby, go to:
Tools > Advanced > [uncheck] Hide new conversation windows

Now Digsby should work perfectly. Still no notifications though.
3 kyleabaker
September 18, 2008 at 7:02 pm

using Opera 9.60 on GNU/Linux
Opera/9.60 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; en) Presto/2.1.1
@Altay
Thanks for that quick solution! I didn’t experience any problems like this at all, however, since the settings are saved and sync’d when you login from a different location it may be that I had changed them long before without realizing or since I’ve been using Digsby since early test builds that this options was unchecked by default.

Hopefully that will solve @DazzlinDonna’s problem! The one thing that I’ve found not working is the auto-update feature. The new build is downloaded fine, but restarting and installing the update automatically fails somewhere along the way. I need to inspect the error messages a little more to get to the bottom of this.
4 Erik Weibust
November 22, 2008 at 12:22 am

using Firefox 3.0.4 on Ubuntu
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008111318 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.4
I got through the install just fine, but when I launch Digsby, after getting logged in, it crashes.
5 SQuiggle the GAmer
November 30, 2008 at 8:26 pm

using Firefox 3.0.3 on Ubuntu
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008111317 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.3 (Linux Mint)
I got very exited when reading this (I have been trying to get digsby to work on my version of linux mint). THe program installs and the .exe works fine, but once I log in digsby checks for updates and immediately closes.

hmmm, its bound to work sometime
6 kyleabaker
December 1, 2008 at 5:06 am

using Opera 9.62 on Windows Vista
Opera/9.62 (Windows NT 6.0; U; en) Presto/2.1.1
@SQuiggle the GAmer
I’ve noticed that Digsby isn’t able to update in Linux at all and when it downloads an update it just repeatedly shuts down and never updates. I have to look into that, but I’ll post a fix as soon as possible.
7 Bryan
December 1, 2008 at 7:44 pm

using Firefox 3.1b1 on GNU/Linux
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1) Gecko/20081007 Firefox/3.1b1
I’m having the same problem using Wine 1.1.7. Just after checking for updates Digsby crashes or shutsdown (not sure which).
8 tom
December 16, 2008 at 11:54 am

using Firefox 3.0.4 on Ubuntu
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008111318 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.4
I was hoping this would work for me as well, but I get the same issue. Digsby installs and loads, but after logging in the client bombs out after it attempts to try to get updates.
9 airchina23
December 21, 2008 at 12:11 pm

using Firefox 3.0.4 on Fedora
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008111217 Fedora/3.0.4-1.fc10 Firefox/3.0.4
Ha, I guess I got through farther than most of you.

I can:
Load buddy lists
view facebook /twitter udpates
update twitter
view email notification and delete/mark as read/spam

but if i try to talk to a buddy, the chat window loads perfectly, but it crashes when i try to send.