I needed to install the
Advanced Diary diary/journaling program
from CSoftLab on an Ubuntu
Unix system. The application is developed only for Microsoft Windows,
so to get it to work on an Ubuntu Linux system I used
Wine, which is
free and
open-source software that allows one to run applications developed
for the Microsoft Windows
operating system
(OS) on Linux systems.
I started the installation from a
terminal window after
creating and initializing a Wine
prefix for it. But when I clicked on Install, I saw the
message "Invalid operation in GDI+ (Code: 2)". When I canceled the
installation and closed the window associated with it, I saw an error
window stating "The setup files are corrupted. Please obtain a new copy
of the program." I had encountered the same "Invalid operation in GDI+
(Code: 2)" problem many months ago (the setup file wasn't actually
corrupted, so I could ignore that message) when I installed a previous
version of Advanced Diary, version 8.0, on another system using Wine
— see Installing Advanced
Diary on a Linux system with Wine — and remembered that I
had used a shell
script then to install additional software for Wine that
would alleviate that problem. I needed Winetricks installed, so
I verified I had already installed it on this system with the which command
(you can install it with sudo apt install winetricks,
if it is not installed). I used winetricks to install gdiplus and core
fonts for Windows applications. That resolved the problem with the
"Invalid operation in GDI+ (Code: 2)", but then I saw a
"Access violation at address 75D947DC in module 'qcap.dll'. Read of address
5F505353" message every time I started Advanced Diary.
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