Running Adwords Editor on Linux with Wine

Posted on December 26, 2008
Filed Under linux | 13 responses

I’ve bought myself an Asus EEE 1000H netbook for Christmas, and very nice it is too. Although I don’t intend to use it much for work, every now and then I want to check a campaign, so Adwords Editor is a must. But how to run it under Linux?

Although my machine shipped with Asus’ customised version of Linux (Xandros), I installed Ubuntu EEE almost immediately. (Perhaps the easiest Linux install ever, the longest part was downloading the ISO file.)

Wine allows you to run Windows applications in Linux, though of course it’s not guaranteed that every program will install and run flawlessly. Adwords Editor fits into this category.

So, how do you get it running? Follow these steps (I’m assuming you have familiarity with Linux and Wine already):

  1. Download the latest version of Adwords Editor (7.0.0 at the time of writing).
  2. Install into Wine in the usual way. At this point it won’t run: it will complain that it “couldn’t load XPCOM”.
  3. Go to your (or a friend’s) Windows machine and copy the files msvcp71.dll and msvcr71.dll from the folder c:/Windows/system32.
  4. Paste the files into the .wine/drive_c/windows/system32 folder which is in your home directory.
  5. Open the Wine configuration window and select the Libraries tab. In the New Override for Library box, type msvcp71 and click add. Repeat for msvcr71. Note that .dll is not typed in.
  6. Adwords Editor should now run.

Thanks to a thread at WineHQ for this information, it worked wonders for me. But with all things Linux, YMMV.

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13 responses to “Running Adwords Editor on Linux with Wine”

  • http://kegel.com Dan Kegel

    It’s even easier than that. I just ran it in wine-1.1.11, and never saw the “couldn’t load XPCOM” error, so I didn’t overload any DLLs.
    I did get a warning about not being able to
    get updates, but was able to get into my account ok.

    BUT, if you do need msvcr71 and friends, the easiest way to get it (if you don’t have your copy of Windows handy) is to use winetricks to install vcrun2003. See
    http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks
    for more info. Maybe that’s needed for this app with old versions of Wine, I don’t know.

    • http://searchbeest.com searchbeest

      Thanks for the information Dan. I’m running Wine 1.0.0 so perhaps that’s why I needed to go through the extra steps.

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  • http://www.marblehost.com MarbleHost.com

    Hello,

    I have got wine 0.9.54 and google adwords editor 5.0.1 running everything seems to work fine no errors.

    The only issue is when I want to add keyword I cannot copy more then 120 lines of text from an excel sheet to the campaign. If I copy more than that nothing happens. But when I tried to paste into a text file its working. But not in the application emulated on wine.

    Any Suggestion

  • http://kegel.com Dan Kegel

    Marblehost, please file a bug at
    http://bugs.winehq.org

  • http://searchbeest.com searchbeest

    It could be an Adwords Editor problem. I’ve known it to seize up for a while on Windows when pasting large amounts of data. But 120 rows doesn’t seem like much.

  • Richard

    @MarbleHost.com: Actually the 120 rows limitation is not due to Adwords Editor or WINE – it’s a limitation of VMware, which doesn’t let you copy/paste more than 64KB into or out of a guest OS. I’m guessing that your copy of Excel is running in a VMware guest here, as that’s how I ran into this. See http://communities.vmware.com/thread/105357

    One workaround is to copy/paste via a text editor in Windows and Linux sharing same file via Samba (but make sure it’s something that doesn’t force Unicode, just ASCII – gVim is what I use). Or you could buy Crossover Office and install Excel on top of that.

  • http://adwordstrafficsecret.info Danny Watson

    Perfect. I just got it working thanks to your instructions.

    The latest version that is shown to work on the Wine site is 6.5. This is version 7 and still seems to work well.

    Thanks

  • StephenW

    I have Ubuntu 9.04 with Wine 1.0.1
    I installed Google Adwords Editor7.6.1 and got Visual C++ Runtime Error R6034
    I used Winetricks to install vcrun2005 and now Adwords Editor runs well. (vrun2008 did not work).

    • Woodmann

      Thank you that worked for me :)

  • flaviobecker

    GREAT !!! just in time! Thanks!!!!

  • Lescouflair

    This did not work for me at all
    I get the error message ‘File Not Found’
    Error
    ‘There is no Windows Program configured to Open This type of File’

  • Image Direct

    Hey folks I struggled with the whole command line thing so I downloaded the latest version of Wine via my Ubuntu Software Centre facility. ( as at March 2012) Still couldnt get the msi file of Google Adwords Editor to come up on screen as the default Wine dialogue box only looks for *exe, and .so files. BUT if you go to the ‘Uninstall Wine Software’ option there is an ‘Install’ button there and hey presto that dialogue box looks for ‘installation programs’ of any sort including the .msi file.
    Awesome!!! I am converting to Linux away from Windows and this was one of the last hurdles.