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I have installed CrossOver 25.0.1-1 from the .deb package which is available from CodeWeavers web-site. MX Package Installer confirms that CrossOver is installed. The operational instructions tell me to click on the CrossOver icon in my application menu. Sadly there is no such icon. A search of the Application Menu does not find CrossOver. A scan of 'All Applications' does not find CrossOver. The Package Manager does not give any information about where to find or start CrossOver. After some hours of trying I have been unable to find out how to start CrossOver in my OS. Do I conclude that it is not supported under MX Linux?

How did you install the .deb file? Did you use command line or double-clicked the file?

I did neither. I right-clicked on the .deb file and selected the option 'open with "Deb Installerr"'

Sometimes when we use the graphical interface, instead of command line, the program does not show error messages. Maybe you have a dependency problem, it happens to me sometimes. I use Kubuntu Linux.

You may try to open a terminal and run the following commands:

sudo apt --fix-broken install
sudo apt-get -f install

Good luck!

Thanks for the instructions. There are no symptoms, that I am aware of, suggesting a broekn package or an unfilled dependency in this install of MX. I think this is opinion is supported by the results of running the commands you suggested: both of them gave "0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded." as a result. So the icon for CrossOver still cannot be found, implying that it is not supported in MX. Should I now be contacting CodeWeavers for 'official support', as they offer, to suggest making CrossOver installable in MX Linux?

Let's try one more thing... Please run the following command and paste the results here:

apt search crossover

Apologies for delay. Here is the result:

$ apt search crossover
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
crossover/now 25.0.1-1 amd64 [installed,local]
Run Windows productivity and utility apps like Microsoft Office and games

mda-lv2/stable 1.2.10-1+deb12u1 amd64
Paul Kellett's MDA plugins ported to LV2

phasex/stable 0.14.97-3+b1 amd64
Phase Harmonic Advanced Synthesis EXperiment

swh-lv2/stable 1.0.16+git20160519~repack0-3+b1 amd64
Steve Harris's SWH plugins ported to LV2

texlive-latex-extra/stable,stable 2022.20230122-4 all
TeX Live: LaTeX additional packages

zita-lrx/stable 0.1.2-1 amd64
Command line jack application providing crossover filters

Excelent! That's identical to my Kubuntu Linux.

Now please try the following command:

ls /opt/cxoffice/bin

And copy and paste the output here.

Tony Hamilton wrote:

So the icon for CrossOver still cannot be found, implying that it is not supported in MX.

Good morning Tony.

Daft question - have you tried to run Crossover from the command line? E.g.

/opt/cxoffice/bin/crossover --help-all

and

/opt/cxoffice/bin/crossover

Tony Hamilton wrote:

Do I conclude that it is not supported under MX Linux?

Good afternoon Tony.

I tested MX-23.6.1_x64 KDE in a Virtual Machine as described in Installation of cxoffice - Virtual Machine & Debian/KDE | Request for Comments

Crossover installed, registered correctly with the KDE launcher, and exhibited no major differences to what I see on Debian.

/opt/cxoffice/bin/cxdiag reported an additional missing/broken library

[MissingLibWaylandClient]
"Lib"="libwayland-client.so.0"
"Title"="Missing 32-bit libwayland-client.so.0 library"

but that got fixed by

sudo /opt/cxoffice/bin/cxfix missinggstreamer1bad missinggstreamer1bad.amd64

so no extra step was needed.

As a test, I created a Windows 10 bottle with an LTSpice 24 installation, and that ran fine.

In conclusion, MX Linux is supported by Crossover.

The issue you face might be Xfce / Fluxbox related, assuming you are using one of them instead of KDE.
Perhaps something minor like the registration of Crossover with the launcher going wrong?

I hope this helps.

Silvio M Kozasa wrote:

Excelent! That's identical to my Kubuntu Linux.

Now please try the following command:

ls /opt/cxoffice/bin

And copy and paste the output here.
Here's the result:

$ ls /opt/cxoffice/bin
autorun cxfix cxnativeopen cxselinux cxwait wineloader
cabextract cxgarcon-terminal cxntlm_auth cxsetup cxwinassoc wineloader64
crossover cxgetsysinfo cxrating cxstart locate_gui.sh wineprefixcreate
cxassoc cxgettext cxreboot cxsu regedit wine-preloader
cxavscan cxinstaller cxregister cxtemplate regsvr32 wineserver
cxbottle cxlogfilter cxrepackage cxtie unrar wineserver32
cxdiag cxmenu cxreset cxuninstall wine wineserver64
cxdiag64 cxmessage cxrun cxupdatecheck wine64-preloader wineshelllink

Renzo de Paoli wrote:

Tony Hamilton wrote:

So the icon for CrossOver still cannot be found, implying that it is not supported in MX.

Good morning Tony.

Daft question - have you tried to run Crossover from the command line? E.g.

/opt/cxoffice/bin/crossover --help-all

and

/opt/cxoffice/bin/crossover

No, I had not previously tried this. My attempts to run crossover from the command line give this result:

tony@mx:~
$ crossover
crossover: command not found
tony@mx:~

I would never have discovered that the location (Cxoffice - a name which does not appear in any documents I have looked at so far) you have indicated is where Crossover is installed. I was relying on the product documentation to be useful and correct so I was looking for this icon. It doesn't exist. I am surprised that the developers hadn't tested this on MX.

Now I know how to start Crossover. Thanks.

I note your comment about the install of Crossover working correctly in MX with the KDE desktop. I have been running XFCE. I just switched to the Plasma version of KDE and immediately see Crossover and its icon in the menu. I guess it's a problem in XFCE.

That's it! There you have your installation of Crossover Linux. And as Renzo have pointed, you can run the binaries from this directory.

Tony Hamilton wrote:

Silvio M Kozasa wrote:

Here's the result:

$ ls /opt/cxoffice/bin
autorun cxfix cxnativeopen cxselinux cxwait wineloader
cabextract cxgarcon-terminal cxntlm_auth cxsetup cxwinassoc wineloader64
crossover cxgetsysinfo cxrating cxstart locate_gui.sh wineprefixcreate
cxassoc cxgettext cxreboot cxsu regedit wine-preloader
cxavscan cxinstaller cxregister cxtemplate regsvr32 wineserver
cxbottle cxlogfilter cxrepackage cxtie unrar wineserver32
cxdiag cxmenu cxreset cxuninstall wine wineserver64
cxdiag64 cxmessage cxrun cxupdatecheck wine64-preloader wineshelllink

Since the first time I tried KDE, decades ago, I always used it. Not because it does not have bugs (certainly MUCH less than some certain expensive operating systems), but because it is the most powerful and configurable one.

If you need a more lightweight alternative, I suggest you try LXDE.

Tony Hamilton wrote:

I note your comment about the install of Crossover working correctly in MX with the KDE desktop. I have been running XFCE. I just switched to the Plasma version of KDE and immediately see Crossover and its icon in the menu. I guess it's a problem in XFCE.

Tony Hamilton wrote:

I note your comment about the install of Crossover working correctly in MX with the KDE desktop. I have been running XFCE. I just switched to the Plasma version of KDE and immediately see Crossover and its icon in the menu. I guess it's a problem in XFCE.

Good afternoon Tony.

I just tried out MX-23.6_x64 “ahs”, same procedure as for the KDE version, and no noticeable differences during the installation.

When right-clicking on the desktop, I see the last entry Applications, and underneath a sub-entry CrossOver, and underneath that the program CrossOver.

The test with the Windows 10 bottle with LTSpice 24 runs without any issues.

In conclusion, the problem does not seem to be Xfce related either.

My guess is that it has something to do with how you installed CrossOver.
Maybe try using the terminal and apt-get and see, where this leads you...

Good luck.