Continuing the discussion from Roon control GUI working on Linux using Wine:
It works for me on debian testing, this finally convinced me to pay for roon as i really didn’t like controlling from my android because i use roon as an ‘all in one’ on my laptop.
what i did:
install wine as explained in the debian wiki:
https://wiki.debian.org/Wine
i just did the standard installation plus installed winetricks.
(Note: I’m not sure if the following two downloads are really required but only after i did it the dotnet45 installation completed successfully and the roon launcher works and stopped complaining about mono is not installed or mono could not be loaded.)
download wine-mono-4.5.0.msi and place it in /usr/share/wine/mono/ and give the directory read access.
https://dl.winehq.org/wine/wine-mono/4.5.0/
downloaded wine_gecko-2.47-x86_64.msi and wine_gecko-2.47-x86.msi and place them in /usr/share/wine/gecko/ and give the directory read access. probably only the x86_64 is required.
https://wiki.winehq.org/Gecko
then:
WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine/my_roon_instance WINEARCH=win32 wine wineboot
WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine/my_roon_instance winetricks dotnet45
launch winecfg and change windows version to 7
WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine/my_roon_instance winecfg
download roon installer
http://download.roonlabs.net/builds/RoonInstaller.exe
and install it:
WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine/my_roon_instance wine RoonInstaller.exe
it installs fine and magically i have a gnome launcher for it under: $HOME/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/Roon.desktop
and i can launch it as any other gnome app.
I’m using it for an hour now and it works fine, when radio is playing there’s sometimes a long delay between tracks but i can’t say if it has to do with the wine installation.