Sonork IM in Ubuntu using Wine

May 12, 2008 · Filed Under Ubuntu 

The first time i install sonork IM using wine was last year but failed, it wont read the history record from data file when you open chat screen. When new message arrive i got the notification but when i open the chat screen it was empty, i can only see the incoming message if i keep the sender’s chat screen open before he or she send me the message. Sonork IM is an internet messenger application which is not popular at all, but some of the company are using it as a private messenging network, because it is not well known enough so i can hardly find any information in google regarding problem in running sonork IM using wine and its solution. I tried crossover office as well but no hope. So i conclude to myself that sonork IM not compatible at all with wine. Until recently i bring it out to try again because i need to stick with linux base OS for some my research, this time somehow i make it to works, i don’t know how it would work in this way, but i just work.

The trick to make it work is really simple, for the 3rd step in the installation wizard, there is an “advanced…” button, after clicking on it you will see that you can actually set your own data and tmp path for Sonork IM. For Data folder i set it to my Ubuntu file system /home/warrence/sonork/data, as for tmp folder i set it to /tmp. Thats all!

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6 Responses to “Sonork IM in Ubuntu using Wine”

  1. Dan Kegel on May 12th, 2008 5:41 pm

    Can you add an entry for Sonork in http://appdb.winehq.org/ ?
    Thanks!

  2. Warrence on May 12th, 2008 9:34 pm

    Added! Now waiting for their review. Thanks Dan Kegel.

  3. Irene on May 13th, 2008 11:40 pm

    @@… change again…

  4. Warrence on May 16th, 2008 12:17 am

    hehe

  5. ruckuus on May 21st, 2008 10:21 pm

    cool,
    buddy
    hehhee

  6. Warrence on May 29th, 2008 10:46 pm

    hehe thanks!

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