Install Adobe Digital Editions On Ubuntu 14.04?

Adobe Digital Editions (abbreviated ADE) is an ebook reader software program from Adobe Systems, built initially (1.x version) using Adobe Flash. It is used for acquiring, managing, and reading eBooks, digital newspapers, and other digital publications. The software supports PDF, XHTML (through the nonproprietary EPUB file type specification) and Flash-based content. It implements a proprietary scheme of Digital Rights Management ("DRM") which, since the version 1.5 release in May 2008, allows document sharing among multiple devices and user authentication via an Adobe ID.

1. Installing Wine:

Wine is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD. The easiest way to install wine on Ubuntu 14.04 is from its PPA. Open the terminal and run these commands.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install wine1.7 winetricks

You can check if wine is installed correctly by typing wine --version

2. Install ADE

Once you installed wine, you can easily install ADE. The current version is ADE 4.0 as of today(Oct 9th 2014). But only ADE 1.7 works on wine. So you have to download ADE 1.7. You can download it from here. Once you have downloaded that, you can just double click and install it just like windows.

3. Open Winetricks and wait for auto configuration

Once auto configuration completed, you can easily install ADE. open the download folder and right click on ADE17.exe file and open with wine program. and authentic with your adobe ID.

4. How to open acms extension file

Download ACMS extension file and select file and right click and open with wine program or adobe digital program and download original file