Writer's Software Install help Request

[Freebird]

 I am a real "newbie" to Linux and could use some advice.
I haven't become familiar with doing even the basic installs outside of the pisi so please be nice.
There is a writing software program that i would like to run and would like some advice on the install.
I spent all of last week setting up the 64 bit version of 2011 just to discover that it doesn't run "wine" yet.
So I installed the 32 bit on a different drive so I could run a few progs I really like in wine.
One of the main ones I want to use is "yWriter" but I see that it can be run in Linux without wine.
I would really like to do this but I am not sure how to go about it yet. There is an install tutorial for doing this on Ubuntu but I fear it will be quite different on Pardus.
I was hoping someone would take the time to look at the authors page and give me their opinion on what I am facing before I dive in. Will his old method be the best for Pardus or should I take a completely different approach?
If there is a better way to go about this please point me in the right direction.
To many this program might not seem such a great deal but to many others it is an invaluable approach to writing.
I would love to see it offered in the package installer! Yah, that would take care of all my problems. 
First time Linux user and I am LOVING Pardus!!!
The link to yWriter and the tutorial is here. http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter5_Linux.html
Thanks for whatever help anyone has time to offer.

[SW]

1. Add Pardususer.de repo:

Code:

pisi ar pardususer.de http://pakete.pardususer.de/pardus-2011/i686/pisi-index.xml.xz

2. install msttcorefonts with pisi
3. install mono-runtime with pisi

and follow the instructions as You can see on the given homepage:
An example: installing yWriter5 on Linux

First, make sure you're in your home directory by typing

cd ~

now enter

wget http://www.spacejock.com/files/yWriter5.zip

and then

unzip yWriter5.zip

This will create a yWriter5 directory, with a bin folder inside it. So, enter

cd yWriter5
cd bin

and now run yWriter with this command:

mono yWriter5.exe

You can set up a shortcut on the Ubuntu desktop by specifying ~/yWriter/bin as the path, mono as the application and yWriter5.exe as the parameter. You can also run yWriter by right-clicking the yWriter5.exe file and selecting 'run with mono'



You will see no difference between the working wine version and the version using mono! If I were in Your position maybe I leave it on the base of wine...

[Freebird]

Thank you SW.
I will try this tonight and see how it goes for me.

[Freebird]

SW, I tried following the steps above but I'm missing something.
Everything appeared to go well. yWriter begins to load in WINE and then just disappears.
This is a copy/paste of the steps I took.

 ~ $ wget http://www.spacejock.com/files/yWriter5.zip
--2011-04-02 14:52:42--  http://www.spacejock.com/files/yWriter5.zip
Resolving www.spacejock.com (www.spacejock.com)... 203.0.178.91
Connecting to www.spacejock.com (www.spacejock.com)|203.0.178.91|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1360988 (1.3M) [application/zip]
Saving to: “yWriter5.zip”

100%[===================================================================>] 1,360,988   77.4K/s   in 22s    

2011-04-02 14:53:05 (60.5 KB/s) - “yWriter5.zip” saved [1360988/1360988]

 ~ $ unzip yWriter5.zip
Archive:  yWriter5.zip
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/FTPUpload.dll  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/SJSpeech.dll  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/SJSpell.dll  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/SJVars.dll  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/SJZip.dll  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/Spacejock.dll  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/yW2Lib.dll  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/yW3Lib.dll  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/yW4Lib.dll  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/yW5Lib.dll  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/help/index.htm  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/help/index_ger.htm  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/help/style.css  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/help/images/AutoUpdate.png  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/help/images/snipyWriter5.png  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/help/images/WorkSched.png  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/Languages/Afrikaans.txt  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/Languages/Aragonese.txt  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/Languages/Castellano (Spanish).txt  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/Languages/Catalan.txt  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/Languages/Chinese.txt  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/Languages/Czech.txt  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/Languages/Danish.txt                                                              
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/Languages/Deutsch (Formell).txt  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/Languages/Deutsch.txt  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/Languages/Estonian.txt  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/Languages/French-jbc.txt  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/Languages/French.txt  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/Languages/Galician.txt  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/Languages/Hebrew.txt  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/Languages/Hungarian.txt  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/Languages/Italian.txt  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/Languages/Japanese.txt  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/Languages/Mexican.txt  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/Languages/Nederlands.txt  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/Languages/Norsk.txt  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/Languages/Polish.txt  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/Languages/Portuguese2.txt  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/Languages/Russian2.txt  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/Languages/Sermon5.txt  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/Languages/Slovak.txt  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/Languages/Spanish Chile.txt  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/Languages/Spanish International.txt  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/Languages/Spanish.txt  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/Languages/Swedish.txt  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/Languages/Template.txt  
  inflating: yWriter5/bin/yWriter5.exe  
~ $ mono yWriter5.exe
Cannot open assembly 'yWriter5.exe': No such file or directory.
~ $ mono yWriter5.exe
Cannot open assembly 'yWriter5.exe': No such file or directory.
~ $ mono yWriter5.exe
Cannot open assembly 'yWriter5.exe': No such file or directory.
~ $ mono yWriter5.exe
Cannot open assembly 'yWriter5.exe': No such file or directory.
~ $ cd ~/yWriter5/bin
bin $ mono yWriter5.exe
Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualBasic, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies.
The entry point method could not be loaded
bin $ mono yWriter5.exe
Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualBasic, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies.
The entry point method could not be loaded
 bin $

Do you see what I did wrong or what is missing?

[Freebird]

Any help on running yWriter would be much appreciated.
When I try to run it from terminal using "mono yWriter5.exe" I get the following result.

Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualBasic, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies.
The entry point method could not be loaded

If I try to run the ".exe" file itself, WINE will try to run it but after a minute it just disappears and never opens.

Is there something I can do for this?
Thanks for any suggestions.

[PhiX]

Try :

Code:

mono ~/yWriter5/bin/yWriter5.exe

(you forgot two steps in SW's tutorial : cd yWriter5 and
cd bin )