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You must have at least Wine 6.6 version to be able to install .NET 4.5
Wine must be a Wine-Staging version otherwise the SuuntoLink installer will run (administrator rights error).
The best way is to install the latest version of Wine provided by WINE-HQ : see here for various Linux distros.
For the following, the explained method works on my Ubuntu 20.04. You should have to adapt certain steps according to your Linux distribution.
wine --versionThe command returns Wine version installed on your system, for example: wine-7.1 (Staging) on my Ubuntu.
Winetricks is a script that will help you install certain software under Wine.
A quick (not very clean) installation can be done by the following commands :
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks
chmod +x winetricks
sudo mv winetricks /usr/bin/winetricks --versionThe command returns Winetricks version installed on your system, for example : 20210206-next on my Ubuntu.
A Suunto watch plugged into a Linux system appears in /dev/hidrawX (where X is the HID device number corresponding to your watch).
By default, only root user has read/write permissions needed on the device.
To automatically create a rule that will set the good rights to your Suunto watch, we will use the script proposed by @openambitproject (thanks to authors).
I've made a copy here just in case...
The installation is done by the following commands :
sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JmB11/SuuntoLinkWine/main/libambit.rules -O /etc/udev/rules.d/libambit.rules
sudo udevadm control --reload-rules && udevadm triggerPlug your Suunto watch via USB, then :
ls -l /dev/hidraw*The command lists HID devices ; the last connected device (your watch) should appear with the following rights :
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root.
Choose a 32 bits runtime architecture for Wine with the command :
export WINEARCH="win32"Then install .NET 4.5 using Winetricks using the command :
winetricks dotnet45If Wine asks you to install "Mono", you can cancel.
If Wine asks you to restart after installing .NET, choose "Restart later".
Choose a Windows 7 version for running Wine with the command :
winetricks win7To disable the use of SDL with HID devices, you have to add Enable SDL to the Wine registry using the command :
wine reg add 'HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\WineBus' /v 'Enable SDL' /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /fwine regeditIn Wine's registry editor, find the key : HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\WineBus.
Check that the DWORD value Enable SDL is present and set to 0x00000000 (0) :
You can download and install the latest version of SuuntoLink directly by :
wget -P ~/.wine/drive_c/ https://suuntolink.static.movescount.com/Suuntolink_installer.exe
wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Suuntolink_installer.exeIf the installation goes well and your watch is connected and recognized, you should arrive to login screen :
For Ubuntu, you can create a launcher to start SunntoLink :
gedit ~/.local/share/applications/SuuntoLink.desktopEnter this in the launcher code :
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Icon=/home/USERNAME/.wine/drive_c/users/USERNAME/AppData/Local/Suuntolink/app-4.0.5/resources/app/icons/icon@4x.png
Name=Suuntolink
Exec=sh -c "wineserver -k; cd /home/USERNAME/.wine/drive_c/users/USERNAME/AppData/Local/Suuntolink; wine Suuntolink.exe >/dev/null 2>&1"
Comment=Suunto AmbitThe command wineserver -k allows you to "kill" any Wine processes that might be running if SuuntoLink has eventually crashed before...
The screen saver freezes data refreshing with the watch. If this occurs, simply unplug and plug back in your watch.
In the worst case, **close the application and restart the launcher ** (with the command wineserver -k everything should be fine 😎 ).