I normally use jUploader for uploading photos to Flickr from my Ubuntu Jaunty box. However, since I got the amazing Panasonic DMC-LX3 compact camera, I have been uploading HD videos too to Flickr. Now none of the FOSS tools that I know of support video right now. Since I insist on uploading photos in the order that I have taken them, it makes my photo upload workflow really messy – upload a few photos from jUploader, go to flickr.com and upload the video in the sequence, go back to jUploader for the next few photos, back to flickr.com for the videos, and so on. Disgusting, but I don’t know anything better, and if you do, please tell me.
So I decided to do the next best thing – I have started using the latest official Flickr Uploadr for Windows in Ubuntu using Wine. No, it doesn’t work out of the box. It just takes an additional step.
- Install wine. (
apt-get install wine) - Download
winetricksfrom http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks. This is a small script which automates installation of common wine program dependencies. - Install MS Visual C++ 2005 libraries. (
sh winetricks vcrun2005). Some messages which look like errors come on screen. Ignore these. - Download Flickr Uploadr Windows executable from http://www.flickr.com/tools/uploadr/.
- Install it! (
wine FlickrUploadr-3.2.1-2009.06.02.01-en.exe)
That is it! Find Flickr Uploadr installed in your menu at Applications->Wine->Programs.
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Tried this under both Wine and Crossover, but the Flickr Uploadr fails to launch (install goes fine), with this single error message:
“Couldn’t load XPCOM.”
Tried this under both Wine and Crossover, but the Flickr Uploadr fails to launch (install goes fine), with this single error message:
“Couldn’t load XPCOM.”
That error message is an indicator that the VC++ libraries were not installed correctly. I had to wipe out my ~/.wine to reinstall vcrun for fixing this.
That error message is an indicator that the VC++ libraries were not installed correctly. I had to wipe out my ~/.wine to reinstall vcrun for fixing this.
I still get the error after deleting my ~/.wine
its a bummr, coz this would be cool….
I still get the error after deleting my ~/.wine
its a bummr, coz this would be cool….
same here. not working after deleting .wine and then starting from step.
same here. not working after deleting .wine and then starting from step.
Thanks for that article, it worked fine for me.
@others: did you try to uninstall wine and install it again? Have you installed cabextract?
Thanks for that article, it worked fine for me.
@others: did you try to uninstall wine and install it again? Have you installed cabextract?
had da same error…i went to da home directory, made 'winetricks' executable then ran it and installed all programs starting with vcrun
its working now
It works!!!
Thank you very much!!!
This so totally rocks. Thanks so much. Adding the wintricks for vcrun2005 worked flawlessly in Lucid.
tried frogr?
Interesting. I had not heard about frogr earlier. But I see it is now on the latest Ubuntu. Tried it. It is quite minimal and but quite functional. Thanks for the ref!