BackSlash Linux – Henry Poon's Blog https://blog.henrypoon.com Mon, 03 Oct 2022 00:56:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 83044199 Running LINE Messenger in Ubuntu 14.04 https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2015/02/09/running-line-messenger-in-ubuntu-14-04/ https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2015/02/09/running-line-messenger-in-ubuntu-14-04/#comments Mon, 09 Feb 2015 22:25:38 +0000 https://www.henrypoon.com/blog/?p=2039 LINE is a messaging program kind of like WhatsApp, but it has a desktop client.  However, this desktop client only runs on Windows.  On Linux, it has to run under Wine, which allows running Windows programs (some) inside the Linux environment.  Caveat: sending stickers does not appear to work.

UPDATE 7. JULY 2015: Since this post, my version of LINE has been updated to 4.0.3.367, and it looks like stickers work now!

UPDATE 31. JULY 2016: Looks like in July 2015, LINE released a Chrome app.  Users of Chrome can just use that extension instead of using this method: Link

Running LINE in Ubuntu 14.04

  1. Install Wine
sudo apt-get install wine
  1. Install VC++ 2008 Redistributable
winetricks vcrun2008
  1. Download and install LINE for Windows

Without installing the VC++ 2008 Redistributable, LINE would intermittently crash (even though it was able to start correctly).  This worked on my Ubuntu 14.04 x64 system.

LINE Version: 3.9.1.188
Wine Version: 1.6.2

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