How to Install Photoscape on Fedora

Not only can you install Photoscape on Fedora, we made it easy for you!

PhotoScape is an incredibly powerful, lightweight photo editing software that runs on Microsoft Windows. Thanks to the Wine app (which allows Linux to run Windows software), this can be easily installed on Fedora, Open Suse and other Red Hat based Linux distros. If you want to install it on Debian or Ubuntu, check out this link!

In this case, I'm installing PhotoScape on the all new Fedora 21 - which so far is honestly the coolest linux destro I've ever test driven, but that's a different story.

The first step to putting Photoscape's magic on Fedora is to install Wine (if you haven't already done so).  In order to do this, simply open a terminal window and type or copy paste:

howto@blogofbenjamin:~$sudo yum update

howto@blogofbenjamin:~$sudo yum install wine

Next, you'll need to install WineTricks.  To do this, simply type or copy paste:

howto@blogofbenjamin:~$winetricks msi2

Next, install gdiplus:

howto@blogofbenjamin:~$winetricks gdiplus

Finally, install the Microsoft 2008 Visual C++ Libraries:

howto@blogofbenjamin:~$winetricks vcrun2008

Now either open the wine configuration from the applications menu or run the following in terminal:

howto@blogofbenjamin:~$winecfg

Click the Libraries tab, select msi, click Edit, then tick Bulletin then Native and click Apply.

Now (still in Libraries) select gdiplus, click Edit, tick Native, then Bulletin and click OK.

Finally, download PhotoScape by clicking the big blue button below, install and enjoy!

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By BENJAMIN SULLIVAN
PUBLISHED: 10:18 PM EST, December 16th 2014