Watchtower Library 2009 on Ubuntu 10.04
My previous post on installing Watchtower Library 2008 is still one of the most popular posts on my blog. A lot has changed to make the installation easier, though, so here is an updated method for installing Watchtower Library.
Since I’m on a new, clean install of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, I need to install Wine. To do this, go to Applications -> Ubuntu Software Center and type “wine” without the quotes into the search box. Install the “Wine Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer”.
Now insert your Watchtower Library 2009 CD-ROM into the drive, and open a terminal window. Type:
wine /media/cdrom/WTLIB09E/Setup.exe
The case is important, so type it exactly as you see there. If you’re using a non-English version of Watchtower Library, then the disc may have a different name (e.g.: WTLIB09S for Spanish), so you’ll have to alter the command accordingly. When the setup routine is running, make sure you check the box to install the data files to your hard disk drive.
Watchtower Library should now install successfully, as it did for me.
When I first ran it, though, all of the text in the browser window appeared as small squares. The publication headings, buttons and search boxes were correct, but the actual text of the publication was unreadable. After checking lots of sources, and checking to see if Wine itself was at fault, I found that the default font had not been set-up correctly in Watchtower Library.
If you experience the same problem then, from within Watchtower Library itself, go to Library -> Properties and you’ll notice the “Browser Text” font selection is blank. Set the font to Tahoma, size 10pt and the problem will be fixed.
Watchtower Library 2009 on Ubuntu 10.04
Font problem happens even with some users on Windows machines.
And as regards to the Setup launch code, there is simplier way:
wine /cdrom/Setup.exe
Or you could double-click Setup.exe in nautilus.
Thanks for the comment and the /cdrom tip.
It seems that in 10.04 you can’t just double-click on Setup.exe – at least, not in the 64-bit edition anyway. Nautilus requires the execute bit set, which you can’t change because it’s on a read-only disc. Even right-clicking and trying to launch the file directly with the “Wine Windows Program Loader” doesn’t work, so I think the best thing to do is launch it from a terminal window.
Thank you for this post. I have two Cd/DVD drives in my desktop. when I typed into terminal the command wine /media/cdrom/WTLIB09E/Setup.exe terminal returned an error message that it could not find media cdrom.
So I finally figured out the command for me would be wine /media/WTLIB09E/Setup.exe
I figured this out by changing to the /media directory: cd /media it listed my drives and the WTLIB09E disk. so I just left out the /cdrom part of the command and it worked
I’m going so far as it is installed but can not open the program. What I do is, and put in cd and open the cd rom icon and the auto run, Norwegian versjon.men get as I said do not open after installation, someone who can help?
I now have the icon on my desktop but can not open library.I downloaded wine expanded download.maybe I have to go into synaptic and expand the number of wine?
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I’ve run into Terminal and WTL has settled on my PC but can not open WTL? Icon is correct yellow color all the votes but I can not open?
Hi, sorry – I’m not sure I understand your question. Could you try opening a terminal window and typing:
wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Watchtower/Watchtower\ Library\ 2009/E/WTLibrary.exeThen please post the output of the error messages here. Thanks.
Hi, I have installed the Watchtower library, but once I double click on the icon on your desktop so does not open the Libraries, this worked in ubuntu 9.10.
Maybe I lack the necessary wine files? But I have wine installed.
@premen
Running Ubuntu 10.04
I could not install from cdrom. I had to drag all the files to a folder on hard drive, then run a command as stated above substituting “cdrom” for the folder name. Then could only open it from drop down box Applications, Wine, Programs, Watchtower Library 2009 – Watchtower Library 2009 English.
Maybe you installed correctly but desktop link is non functional like mine? Hope that helps.
To get it to work from the desktop, I right clicked on the “.desktop” file and then set it as executable. Once it was trusted, the icon changed and I could launch WT Library from the desktop. I have a preference for keeping my desktop clear, however, so I dragged the icon to the panel to the right of the “System” menu, and now launch it from there. Thanks for your comments, by the way
Hi I have same problem with Ubuntu 10.04. installs fine but I can’t open it. Ran the command above and this is response:
Files\\Watchtower\\Watchtower Library 2009\\E\\WTLibrary.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library mepsctls22u.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\Program Files\\Watchtower\\Watchtower Library 2009\\E\\WTLibrary.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library mepsbrowser22u.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\Program Files\\Watchtower\\Watchtower Library 2009\\E\\WTLibrary.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library wtappshare22u.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\Program Files\\Watchtower\\Watchtower Library 2009\\E\\WTLibrary.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library meps22u.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\Program Files\\Watchtower\\Watchtower Library 2009\\E\\WTLibrary.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library mepscore22u.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\Program Files\\Watchtower\\Watchtower Library 2009\\E\\WTLibrary.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library ureappshare22u.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\Program Files\\Watchtower\\Watchtower Library 2009\\E\\WTLibrary.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library wtmmutil22u.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\Program Files\\Watchtower\\Watchtower Library 2009\\E\\WTLibrary.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library wtgui22u.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\Program Files\\Watchtower\\Watchtower Library 2009\\E\\WTLibrary.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library ure22u.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\Program Files\\Watchtower\\Watchtower Library 2009\\E\\WTLibrary.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library ureutil22u.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\Program Files\\Watchtower\\Watchtower Library 2009\\E\\WTLibrary.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library wtutil22u.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\Program Files\\Watchtower\\Watchtower Library 2009\\E\\WTLibrary.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library urebo22u.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\Program Files\\Watchtower\\Watchtower Library 2009\\E\\WTLibrary.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library mepsappshare22u.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\Program Files\\Watchtower\\Watchtower Library 2009\\E\\WTLibrary.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library wtctls22u.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\Program Files\\Watchtower\\Watchtower Library 2009\\E\\WTLibrary.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library mepsgui22u.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\Program Files\\Watchtower\\Watchtower Library 2009\\E\\WTLibrary.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library urectls22u.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\Program Files\\Watchtower\\Watchtower Library 2009\\E\\WTLibrary.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library wtapputil22u.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\Program Files\\Watchtower\\Watchtower Library 2009\\E\\WTLibrary.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library ureapputil22u.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\Program Files\\Watchtower\\Watchtower Library 2009\\E\\WTLibrary.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library appframework22u.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\Program Files\\Watchtower\\Watchtower Library 2009\\E\\WTLibrary.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library ureappframework22u.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\Program Files\\Watchtower\\Watchtower Library 2009\\E\\WTLibrary.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library mepsappframework22u.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\Program Files\\Watchtower\\Watchtower Library 2009\\E\\WTLibrary.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library mepsapputil22u.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\Program Files\\Watchtower\\Watchtower Library 2009\\E\\WTLibrary.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library mfc90u.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\Program Files\\Watchtower\\Watchtower Library 2009\\E\\WTLibrary.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library MSVCP90.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\Program Files\\Watchtower\\Watchtower Library 2009\\E\\WTLibrary.exe”) not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L”C:\\Program Files\\Watchtower\\Watchtower Library 2009\\E\\WTLibrary.exe” failed, status c0000135
Do I need to install .dll files?
Cheers, Steve
Hi, I have installed WT 2009 yellow icon all right, but when I double click on the icon on the desktop nothing happens? Anybody step for step can explain me?
Could you try running Watchtower Library from the command prompt? Open a terminal window and type:
wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Watchtower/Watchtower\ Library\ 2009/E/WTLibrary.exePlease observe any error messages that are reported and post them here.
I am having the same problem now with WTLIB not loading on 64 bit Lucid Lynx.
I opened terminal, typed in the command as above, and I get the same error messages as Steve. It seems none of the dll files are found or loaded.
I had it running before, then changed WINE version to 1.2, then back to 1.0 in case it was a version conflict.
Any suggestions?
I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling both WTLIB and wine to no effect.
Thanks for the help!
I FOUND A SOLUTION!
Its a WINE issue.
In my case, I used Synaptic to uninstall WINE, then went into my home folder, under VIEW clicked “show hidden files”, scrolled down to the .wine folder and deleted it.
NOTE!!! By deleting the .wine folder, you will also delete any other programs you installed in WINE, which in my case was OK. I had some inoperative programs in there that just bugged me.
Anyhoo……
Go back into synaptic, reinstall WINE and WINE GECKO.
Go to Applications>Wine>Configure Wine, and let the configuration box open. Close the dialog box, you don’t need to do anything – this creates the new clean.wine folder for you.
Now follow the instructions here on loading WTLIB and it will work.
NOTE: When WTLIB installs, it will put a shortcut on your desktop that looks like a gear. Right click, go to Properties>permissions, and click the checkbox “allow executing file as a program” and it will change into the Watchtower logo. Grab it with your left mouse button and drag it into one of the panels and you’re done.
It takes a couple of seconds to load, that’s Linux telling WINE what to do.
Oh yeah – reload any other programs you deleted when you removed the .wine folder.
If you have any dead links in the applications menu, right click on that, choose edit menu, and you can delete the dead links. This really is so much simpler than Windows
Matt – thanks for the tip on loading WTLB. Hope this bit of info will help you blog about other things rather than fixing problems!
Great – thanks for that, Bruce. I was just about to start looking into it this morning
Hope it helps the others who are in the same situation. Thanks so much for your comment.
I found I didn’t need the ‘cdrom/’ part of the address for the terminal given initially in this thread…works perfectly
Brilliant! Glad it works for you. Thanks for the tip and for taking the time to comment
Great!!! At the end, all comments helped me to succeed at this thnx to all of you brothers…
Just one touch for me, I didn’t experience any problems at all. I opened the cd(I didn’t run it) copied the setup link, opened a terminal window, typed wine(then space, just one space) and pasted what i copied. So it went like this wine /media/cdrom/WTLIB09E/Setup.exe it worked. Cheerio brothers
Archive: /home/michelle/Desktop/Tru2005_setup.exe
Hi,
I am having a problem with both the WT Lib and TRU programs. I had to reinstall Ubuntu 10.04. I had TRU on my computer before with same Ubuntu version. But now I cannot get it to run and the same with WTLib. I checked the permissions tab and it is set to run executable programs. I can’t figure out what I am missing. I have the latest version of Wine installed. I think if I can get to the root of the problem for TRU then I could install WTLib (TRU is a much smaller program and they work together). Below is the error message I get when I try to open TRU but it’s the same for WTLib. Any help would be appreciated!
[/home/michelle/Desktop/Tru2005_setup.exe]
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
note: /home/michelle/Desktop/Tru2005_setup.exe may be a plain executable, not an archive
zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /home/michelle/Desktop/Tru2005_setup.exe or
/home/michelle/Desktop/Tru2005_setup.exe.zip, and cannot find /home/michelle/Desktop/Tru2005_setup.exe.ZIP, period.
For some reason your system is viewing .exe files as .zip files. Please try typing:
wine /home/michelle/Desktop/Tru2005_setup.exein a terminal window and see if this works.It absolutely worked!!! Thank you. Now I tried to install the library using the same formula as a guide. The install starts then it has a pop-up message asking me if I wanted to skip the hard drive installation? I keep pressing no but it won’t let me get pass this. So I hit ‘yes’ and it installs. So I’m thinking this is a CD-ROM installation but when I try to open it, it says it cannot access the media even though the cd is in the drive. The WT icon is on the desktop (and the exe set up file had the wine logo, just like TRU). Any suggestions?
UPDATE: I got it to run. Thanks to all.
Hi, I have the same problem as Michelle when trying to run WTlib2009 except i don’t know what a TRU program is. I get this error in archive manager:Archive: /media/cdrom0/Setup.exe
[/media/cdrom0/Setup.exe]
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
note: /media/cdrom0/Setup.exe may be a plain executable, not an archive
zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /media/cdrom0/Setup.exe or
/media/cdrom0/Setup.exe.zip, and cannot find /media/cdrom0/Setup.exe.ZIP, period.
I’m running Ubuntu 10.04 and Wine 1.2
Oh, and I’m new to this.
I decided to follow your advice again very slowly and this time it worked. A minor drawback is, I’m not sure why or how it’s worked this time and not before, but never mind. Thanks
Glad it worked for you. Sorry for my lack of response, we’ve been busy getting ready to move house!! Thanks for your comment.
@David
Hi David, Just to answer your statement about TRU…Theocratic Research Utilities. It is a free program that puts the scriptural part of the text on my desktop. It is compatible with the WT Library and you import the text portion from there. Very useful tool that I have used for years. It also has the school, study, Bible reading. Just Google Theocratic Research Utilities and you should find it.
Have you worked out how to install WTL 2010 yet?
Hmmmm…yes and no. Watchtower Library 2010 seems to be based on the new MEPS 2.3 platform, which appears to corrupt the heap in Wine, causing a page fault. I’m still trying different things to get it working – in the meantime, I’ve compromised by copying the rs_data folder over the rs_data folder of my 2009 installation. The data format is the same, so the 2009 client works with the 2010 data.
This is a kind of new question, but still related. I’d like to use a reader for the WT instead of using the hard-copies, especially since they can now be downloaded. Has anyone tried this yet? If so, which reader? I would only be interested in one that will let me underline, make notes, etc.
I have a fix for Watchtower Library 2010. Please see the new post!
@Milore I haven’t tried it myself, but a friend of mine uses the iBooks reader on his iPhone to download and mark the PDF version of the Watchtower.
@Matt Rudge
. Keep me in mind and post if you know of anything else. I want to buy something but am doing research on it first.
Hmmm, that would be really small. I was thinking more along the lines of tablet size, something that I wouldn’t need a magnifying glass to read
Thanks!
My installation of the WT-Lib 2009 went well.
But today I was installing other programs (games) in WINE, but they dint’n work on my system, so I removed them.
After that I coudn’t start WT-Lib 2009 any more.
I will try the steps form Bruce.
Great! I had the font problem in Ubuntu 12.04 and WT 2011, and the solution was the one you said. Thanks!