Gfry,
While had a great success installing SD on 32bit Ubuntu and Mint, I am having difficulty with Mint x64. I think the stumbling block is getting MS.framework to install. I would appreciate any instructions specific to x64, at some stage.

Very Newbytheway

DurhamTeaseAirport

On a 64bit platform you will need to ensure you create a 32bit wineprefix, and then carry out my procedure in that prefix. Google 32bit wineprefix to find out how to create one. That should do the trick.

blah blah blah

Many thanks Gfry. I'll try that.

Very Newbytheway

DurhamTeaseAirport

Do you know Gfry, while the 32bit Linux installation went like a breeze, on the 64 machine, the only thing that worked for me so far was the Blah...blah...blah! As soon as I get to step 4, I get an error message: can not install .NET Framewok 2.0 on a 64 system.Setup will now exit. Later I got stuck on the >net framewok 3.1 SP1 which refuses to install.
I am sure it is me though and will persevere. In the interim, please let me know if you come accross a round about easier ( Take-away ) way.

Very Newbytheway

DurhamTeaseAirport

gfry
I've tried running your instructions, but fail at step 6. I'm running ubuntu 13.04, 64bit and I'm trying to install version 2.6.3. I've added prefix32 as you suggest, but no success.
Following is output on terminal :

david@Neewdesktop:~/prefix32$ bash winetricks dotnet30sp1
Executing w_do_call dotnet30sp1
Executing load_dotnet30sp1
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dotnet30sp1 does not yet fully work or install on wine. Caveat emptor.
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Executing w_do_call dotnet30
Executing load_dotnet30
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If install fails, set /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope to 0. See http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30410
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Executing w_do_call dotnet20
Executing load_dotnet20
Executing w_do_call remove_mono
Executing load_remove_mono
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Mono does not appear to be installed.
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Executing w_do_call fontfix
Executing load_fontfix
Setting Windows version to win2k
Executing winetricks_early_wine regedit C:\windows\Temp\_dotnet20\set-winver.reg
Current wine does not have wine bug 10467, so not applying workaround
Current wine does not have wine bug 30845, so not applying workaround
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Working around wine bug 30845 -- Using native fusion while installing...
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Executing env WINEDLLOVERRIDES=mscoree,fusion=n wine dotnetfx.exe
fixme:advapiecryptFileA "C:\\users\\david\\Temp\\IXP000.TMP\\" 00000000
fixme:advapi:LsaOpenPolicy ((null),0x33f2f0,0x00000001,0x33f28c) stub
fixme:advapi:LsaClose (0xcafe) stub
fixme:storage:create_storagefile Storage share mode not implemented.
err:msi:msi_load_all_components can't initialize assembly caches
err:msi:msi_load_all_components can't initialize assembly caches
fixme:msi:MsiGetLastErrorRecord
err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"SxsInstallCA" returned 1603
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Note: command 'env WINEDLLOVERRIDES=mscoree,fusion=n wine dotnetfx.exe' returned status 67. Aborting.


Grateful for any suggestions.

flycycledave: Thank you very much for keeping this thread alive. I am still having problems installing SD on the 64 bit machine. The 32 bit was no problem. I would not dare update the 32 bit though to the latest SD in case it stopped working altogether. I hope gfry and others interested Linux installation would one day come up with something that is much easier to use, akin to a ppa to make everyone's life much easier.

Runways. I am using the android version of SD on a galaxy tablet - works well. Until I can get the full version installed on my Linux machine, I've gone back to an old laptop with Windows Vista on it, so I can work on the laptop, save stuff to the cloud and then download it onto the tablet, which I take flying. I've only been trying SD for a couple of weeks, but I'm very impressed.
cheers

Thanks flycycledave.

I am having exactly the same problem as flycycledave, however I am only using the 32 bit version of Ubuntu 13.04