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I use SketchUp at work to manipulate models for use in Google Earth. Here is how I got SketchUp Make 2013 installed and working on Arch Linux under Wine 1.7.
Wine for Arch Linux
Install Wine on Arch Linux as follows.
sudo pacman -S --needed icoutils libwbclient libxslt lib32-mpg123 p11-kit lib32-p11-kit samba wine winetricks wine-mono wine_gecko
sudo packer -S --noedit --noconfirm ttf-ms-fonts
For 64-bit also install the following.
sudo packer -S --noedit --noconfirm lib32-libwbclient lib32-libxslt
Installing SketchUp Make
Once Wine is installed download SketchUp Make 2013.
Create a clean wine prefix.
export WINEPREFIX="${HOME}/.sketchup"
export WINEARCH="win32"
wineboot
Install corefonts using winetricks
winetricks corefonts
Start the SketchUp Make setup.
wine SketchUpWEN.exe
Follow the installation wizard, I just went with the defaults.
That’s it. SketchUp is installed and should be associated with the appropriate file types.
Video Corruption
My workstation has a Radeon 5000 series graphics card and I use the Open Source
radeon driver. I don’t know if this problem is specific to my hardware/drivers
but SketchUp will eventually (sometimes immediately) encounter video corruption.
Once that happens I can’t see or manipluate the models.
The solution that works for me is:
env WINEPREFIX="${HOME}/.sketchup" LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 vblank_mode=0 wine "C:\Program Files\SketchUp\SketchUp 2013\SketchUp.exe"
If this also works for you then SketchUp.desktop can be modified to persist
these settings.
nano ~/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/SketchUp\ 2013/SketchUp.desktop
Replace the contents with what follows but change USER with your username.
[Desktop Entry]
Name=SketchUp
Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/USER/.sketchup" LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 vblank_mode=0 wine C:\\\\windows\\\\command\\\\start.exe /Unix /home/USER/.sketchup/dosdevices/c:/users/USER/Start\\ Menu/Programs/SketchUp\\ 2013/SketchUp.lnk
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Icon=1871_SketchUpIcon.0
Uninstalling SketchUp Make
Should you ever need to, you can uninstall SketchUp Make as follows.
rm -rfv ${HOME}/.sketchup/
rm -rfv ~/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/SketchUp\ 2013/