I upgraded to Ubuntu 23.04 and was testing 'Family Tree Maker 16' (FTM) and had problems. Initially just iKernel.exe was an issue. I resolved this by using a new WINEPREFIX. Now I have the error 'a bitmap could not be found or bitmap load failed'. Does anyone know how to solve this or how to replace wine 8.0 with wine 7.0?
This used to work on Ubuntu 22.10 and prior versions back as far as Ubuntu 14.04. The main difference between Ubuntu 22.10 and Ubuntu 23.04 affecting FTM was the wine version. It jumped from 7.0 to 8.0. On the file system this meant FTM instead of being located in drive_c/Program Files now was located on drive_c/Program Files (x86).
On Ubuntu 23.04 I've tried adding corefonts with winetricks and then tried winehq-stable 8.0.1 which added many 32bit libraries that were missing and also tried wine 8.7. libfreetype6-dev:i386 had to be added. Building from source was successful but generated same problem with FTM app. I was hopeful of an improvement because FTM's application main menu appeared. The install process generates no issues. This version of FTM uses Ole2 for file format. Potentially I removed un-needed Ubuntu 32bit system files too quickly in the upgrade or that FTM is failing to open some default FTW file. I had access to a vanilla system with Ubuntu 22.10, did sudo apt-get install wine, wine 7.0, installed FTM and FTM worked.
On the Ubuntu 23.04 I have now downloaded the source code used to build wine-7.0 from [ubuntu archive for wine] 1 and had to use autconf as no configure was archived plus download config.guess and config.sub. Also, numerous .ico were missing, some test.avi, some .c files, some .nls files, and some .h files. I will update whether this wine-7.0 works on Ubuntu 23.04. This process is more involved than I thought, having to ./configure --without-capi. I tried winehq version wine-7.0.1 from source and FTM didn't work which was why I was using the Ubuntu archive as on Ubuntu 22.10 FTM worked with the regular sudo apt-get install wine.
