I did it on a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.04 RC. It has known to work on Ubuntu 8.10, but it gave me a segmentation fault, probably because I had been messing around . I tested it with the trial version downloaded from adobe.com.

To do so, you need Wine. I will take you through the steps that I’ve taken:

1. If you have used wine before, please start of with a clean .wine folder. Or bottle you Photoshop by doing every action with a specific wineprefix.
2. Install Wine 1.1.16 from here.
3. Download winetricks and install necessary libraries. Also make sure you have a decent driver for your graphics card installed.

wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
sh winetricks msxml6 gdiplus gecko vcrun2005
sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

3. If you have a non-english Ubuntu installed please put LANG=C before the following command like this:

LANG=C wine Setup.exe

4. Install Wine 1.1.19 from here, to fix the menu bar bug.
5. To fix the text-layer bug, put atmlib.dll in “~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system 32″. You can download it from several places if you search it on google.
6. Run it!

It was tested on an amd64 and i386.

The reason why you have to set the “LANG” variable, is that Photoshop searches for files in “Program files”, if you don’t set it, wine installs it into a local translation of Program files.

Very happy that Wine made such a big progress over the last years. But there are a lot of regressions in the last versions. That is the reason you sometimes have to try other versions of wine for the installer. But 1.1.16 and 1.1.19 are not stable versions, so I forgive them. Last version that was declared stable till today was 1.0.1.

I also got Ableton 7 and MS Office Excel, Word and Powerpoint 2007 working with wine!

Big thanks to Quitte for helping me out.