Running LINE Messenger in Ubuntu 14.04
This post is recreated from the original at https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2015/02/09/running-line-messenger-in-ubuntu-14-04/
LINE is a messaging program kind of like WhatsApp, but it has a desktop client. However, this desktop client only runs on Windows. On Linux, it has to run under Wine, which allows running Windows programs (some) inside the Linux environment. Caveat: sending stickers does not appear to work.
UPDATE 7 JULY 2015: Since this post, my version of LINE has been updated to 4.0.3.367, and it looks like stickers work now!
UPDATE 31 JULY 2016: Looks like in July 2015, LINE released a Chrome app. Users of Chrome can just use that extension instead of using this method: LINE Chrome Extension
Running LINE in Ubuntu 14.04
- Install Wine
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sudo apt-get install wine
- Install VC++ 2008 Redistributable
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winetricks vcrun2008
- Download and install LINE for Windows
Without installing the VC++ 2008 Redistributable, LINE would intermittently crash (even though it was able to start correctly).
This worked on my Ubuntu 14.04 x64 system.
- LINE Version: 3.9.1.188
- Wine Version: 1.6.2