Installing Adobe Photoshop in any version of Ubuntu is something easy, very easy thanks to emulators like Wine. But in 2015, Adobe launched its product Adobe Creative Cloud, a product that offered its products officially through subscription.
This new method is very interesting but currently has installation problems in Ubuntu. The old Wine method no longer works properly with Adobe Creative Cloud and many users cannot access it.
Developer Corbin Davenport was one of the first to discover this problem and was also one of the first to fix it. We tell you how to do it.
Adobe Creative Cloud offers us Photoshop or Adobe Acrobat in a legal and cheaper way
First we have to install PlayOnLinux on Ubuntu 17.10. In this case it must be the PlayOnLinux program and not Wine set, although they are the same, the first allows you to run and install scripts locally and the latter does not allow it or rather its execution is more difficult. To install PlayOnLinux we have to open the terminal and write the following:
sudo apt-get install playonlinux
After installation, we have to get a Corbin Davenport script for you to install everything you need and configure what you need for Adeobe Creative Cloud to work. We can get the script through the github repository from the developer.
Now that we have the script, we just have to run PlayOnLinux, go to the Tools menu -> Run a local script. This will install Adobe Creative Cloud on our Ubuntu 17.10. Remember that both PlayOnLinux and the scripts they do not install the complete program but it helps in its installation. After the script we have to enter the Adobe Creative Cloud license number, without it, the online suite will not work. And if we have the license, Ubuntu 17.10 will have no problem running any Adobe program, not just Phosohop.
It doesn't work, the installation marks an error, possibly with wine, possibly with the script.
To keep in mind!
1.3 Is Wine an emulator? There seems to be disagreement
There is a lot of confusion about this, particularly caused by people mistaking the name Wine and calling it WINdows Emulator.
When users think of an emulator, they tend to think of things like game console emulators or virtualization software. However, Wine is a compatibility layer: it runs Windows applications much like Windows does. There is no inherent loss of speed due to "emulation" when using Wine, nor is there a need to open Wine before running your application.
That being said, Wine can be thought of as a Windows emulator in the same way that Windows Vista can be thought of as a Windows XP emulator - both allow you to run the same applications by translating system calls in the same way. Setting Wine to mimic Windows XP is not much different from setting Vista to start an application in XP compatibility mode.
A few things make Wine more than just an emulator:
Sections of Wine can be used on Windows. Some virtual machines use Windows' OpenGL-based Direct3D implementation instead of emulating 3D hardware.
Winelib can be used to transfer Windows application source code to other operating systems that Wine supports to run on any processor, even processors that Windows does not support.
"Wine is not just an emulator" is more accurate. To think of Wine as just an emulator is really to forget the other things that it is. The Wine "emulator" is actually just a binary loader that allows Windows applications to interact with the replacement Wine API.
https://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#Is_Wine_an_emulator.3F_There_seems_to_be_disagreement
It does not work in Ubuntu 18.04, it does not allow to open the suite 🙁