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IrfanView 4.10 on Linux with Wine

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Written by Tom Wickline

Tuesday, 23 October 2007 09:05

About IrfanView

IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista.

It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.

IrfanView is trying to create new and/or interesting features in its own way, unlike some other graphic viewers, whose whole "creativity" is based on feature cloning, stealing of ideas and whole dialogs from ACDSee and/or IrfanView! (for example: XnView has been stealing/cloning features and whole dialogs from IrfanView, for 7+ years).

IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple (animated) GIF support.
One of the first graphic viewers WORLDWIDE with Multipage TIF support.
The first graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple ICO support.

Some IrfanView features:

Many supported file formats
Multi language support
Thumbnail/preview option
Paint option - to draw lines, circles, arrows, straighten image etc.
Toolbar skins option
Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD)
Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen etc.
Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters
Fast directory view (moving through directory)
Batch conversion (with image processing)
Multipage TIF editing
File search
Email option
Multimedia player
Print option
Support for embedded color profiles in JPG/TIF
Change color depth
Scan (batch scan) support
Cut/crop
IPTC editing
Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.)
Capturing
Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs
Lossless JPG rotation
Many hotkeys
Many command line options
Many PlugIns
Only one EXE-File, no DLLs, no Shareware messages like "I Agree" or "Evaluation expired"
No registry changes without user action/permission!
and much much more

Wine configuration

This is with a clean configuration directory and running in a 1024x768 virtual desktop.

$ winecfg

Once the .wine directory is built the configuration tool will start and you can set a virtul desktop in the graphics tab if you wish.

Installing IrfanView

You will need a native MFC42.dll in ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 before the install will work.

Download WineTricks and install the MFC42.dll that it provides, or install the dll from a Windows XP box.

tom@tom:~$ wine iview410_setup.exe
fixme:advapi:CheckTokenMembership ((nil) 0x1298a8 0x33f428) stub!

IrfanView first run

tom@tom:~$ cd /home/tom/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/IrfanView
tom@tom:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/IrfanView$ wine i_view32.exe
fixme:commdlg:GetFileName95 Flags 0x00800000 not yet implemented
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 88 (SPI_SETICONS)

Comments

Ubuntu and Irfanview

Ken Laninga 2008-12-25 14:39:56

Irfanview has been one of my favorite tools for a long time. Now I am trying to move from Windows to
Linux Ubuntu and wonder if I should try this. I really don't have a clue how and wish there was
somebody who could guide me thru it with even more (!) detail than is shown on this excellent site.

Hint on Irfanview install on an Ubuntu

gari 2009-02-10 09:45:03

Just a short message to inform those still having some problem to install Irfanview on Ubuntu
...

It is very important to pay attention to the mcf42.dll file to be added to the wine's
dll.
Indeed, in my case, the mfc42.dll downloaded from www.dll-files.com (or equivalent) was not
working and was leading to irfanview simply crashing while starting.
On the other hand, the
mfc42.dll file taken directly from my windows XP partition worked perfectly and allowed me to use
Irfanview on my Ubuntu 8.10!

I hope that this hint will be useful to some of you, as in my case, I
have lost quite some time on this issue !

Tom Wickline 2009-02-10 15:49:45

Thanks gari,

I looked into this a little and the MFC42.dll that winetricks installs works as well..
maybe the dll from some of the online dll servers is from windows 98 e.g a older dll and that is the
cause of the trouble. I made a small edit to the post about installing MFC42.dll

Tom

Tom Wickline 2009-02-12 01:04:53

I just posted a IrfanView 4.23 guide, here is the link to it.

IrfanView 4.23 Guide

Cheers,

Tom

gosh

nage 2009-06-21 01:14:43

Gosh, that is so complicated. And for one simple programme! Damn it! Coundn't it be easier!

Tom Wickline 2009-06-21 01:31:47

download winetricks and install mfc42.dll is complicated?

"I can't hear" and "I don't want to hear" are diff

John 2009-06-21 16:22:21

To Linux users: why you don't like to hear people's opinion? if a user says that "is complicated
to do something", then it has to be so. There's no reason to lie.

Tom Wickline 2009-06-21 20:06:35

ok, what part of this howto is complicated?

John, dont be a Troll please :)

Tom

It is complicated :-)

Tobi 2009-07-14 02:46:28

Its not that I wont be able to do it. But I can see that someone could find this daunting. Let me
list some of the unspoken issues.

1) Where do you get the MFC42.DLL? where exactly is it on the a
Windows system?

2) Where exactly do you put it on the Ubuntu File system?

3) The messages if
things not implemented..(fixme:commdlg:GetFileName95 Flags 0x00800000 not yet implemented) are they
issues that need to be resolved? If so how?

4) How do you click on an image file and have
irfranview open it. (this is taken for granted in windows, is it the same for ubuntu linux?

5)
etc.. etc.. etc...

Like I said it does not bother me as I can go find all teh stuff I need but I
can see that it could be daunting. (compared to a simple windows install)

IrfanView4.25 and Ubuntu 9.04

bernardos 2009-08-24 20:19:58

I tried to use the new IrfanView4.25 at Ubuntu 9.04 but installation does not work as user but as root.

root@ubus:/home/ubus# cd /home/ubus/Desktop
root@ubus:/home/ubus/Deskto p# wine
iview425_setup.exe

wine needs the mfc42.dll in /root/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 for the installation

my users have now IrfanView4.25

bernardos 2009-08-24 20:25:55

P.S.

the i_view32.ini-file in /home/@users/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/IrfanView must be set
read- and writeable.

re:

Wolf 2009-09-02 14:28:07

bernardos wrote:

P.S.

the i_view32.ini-file in /home/@users/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/IrfanView
must be set read- and writeable.

Bernardos;
world-wide, or just owner? I got 4.25 to work once or twice on my laptop, then
suddenly it jumped up with "crash on opening". Tower's crashed from the word Go.
I've got a few more tricks up my sleeve before I cry uncle though. For the record,
mfc42.dll is from the laptop's XP Pro install.

Tobi (and whoever else needs it):
mfc42.dll can be found in C:WINDOWSSystem32 . Copy it, and paste it
into /home//.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 dir.

(somebody correct me if I'm wrong)

Tom Wickline 2009-09-02 14:41:16

Just remove the i_view32.ini and restart irfanview and it will work. The default ini file has the
problems. But after you remove it and re-start irfanview the one it writes is then good.

Tom

Update (yes, already!)

Wolf 2009-09-02 15:56:57

Desktop (Dell Dimension 8400, 3 GHz Proc/1 GB mem, running Jaunty) now has IrfanView running. Steps
involved:

- Uninstall IrfanView via Wine;
- Delete IrfanView dir;
- Run Regedit and delete all
references to IrfanView;
- Download an older version (in this case, 3.99) of IrfanView from
http://www.oldversion.com/IrfanView.html and install as usual:

mfc42.dll is the same one as before,
and I didn't tamper with i_view32.ini or it's permissions.

MORAL: If you can find a version between
3.99 and 4.25, give it a shot. 4.25 "might" have an issue that wiser and more experienced
heads need to look into, but I know my limitations.

Also, there's a typo in my earlier post -
here's the corrected lines:

Tobi (and whoever else needs it):
mfc42.dll can be found in
C:WINDOWSSystem32 . Copy it, and paste it
into /home/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 dir.

re:

Wolf 2009-09-02 16:01:36

Tom Wickline wrote:

Just remove the i_view32.ini and restart irfanview and it will work. The default ini file has
the problems. But after you remove it and re-start irfanview the one it writes is then
good.

Tom

Thanks Tom! I guess you snuck that in while I was writing my "novella". I'll try that
on the laptop before anything else - I was thinking that if worse came to worse, I could
try running it off of the laptop's XP partition.

Wolf

Tom Wickline 2009-09-02 16:22:06

Hello Wolf,

It will work, ive tested it many times on Linux FreeBSD and Solaris. We
support Irfanview 4.25 in Bordeaux now, incase anyone just cant get it working :)

Thanks!

Elmer Gantry 2009-10-17 08:05:09

Thanks everyone, great tips, very helpful. Deleting the .ini file and then restarting irfanview
worked like a charm. Loaded the plugin package too, runs great. 9.04 with Irfanview 4.23

perseleuppi 2009-10-23 02:12:38

Thanks for the .dll file information, I did not realize that one can install it directly from
winetricks. And thank you for the .ini file information. Works just like it used to do in windows
but now in OpenSUSE 11.1

Update the main article?

bob 2009-11-24 08:13:52

I had to go into the comments to learn how to install irfanview 4.25 using wine. Maybe the main
article should be updated to show how to install 4.25. If I got here looking for this tutorial, you
can bet others will come as well and need up to date information

Anonymous 2009-11-29 09:47:21

1) XnView has some native Linux support. I would appreciate for IrfanView to COPY THAT.
2) Linux
users should install and use gThumb for GTK(Gnome/XFCE/Enlightment). It pretty much has 70% of
IrfanView functionality. And is Open Source. I dont know Qt native equivalent, if you have KDE..
sorry.
3) You should add script how to use it to -> Playonlinux. Raw WINE is PAIN TO USE. No wonder
people complain about how complicated it is. Raw WINE is SADISTIC.

Wine Works Well!

Peter 2009-12-17 20:12:22

Wine has come a long way since I first tried it. A few days ago I installed it (under Ubuntu, all it
took was "sudo apt-get install wine"). Suddenly I could run most Windows programs just as I
used to under Windows; just double-click the exe, for which wine had been registered as the
application, and away it went. Even better, double-click a setup executable, and not only does the
program install, but the icon appears on the Gnome desktop (with a couple of extras that can be
deleted).

So far I've successfully installed Irfanview, HTML Help Workshop, Inno Setup 5, Pelles C,
lcc-win32, my own application Hullform, and verified that Solitaire and Notepad run "as is".
Certainly there are limitations, but for nothing, it's pretty good value!

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