What is Line Messenger?
Como sabemos, las alternativas a WhatsApp han salido de la nada y por lo menos yo, prefiero a su más digno rival: Telegram. Sin embargo, no son los únicos servicios de este tipo que hay, pues también tenemos a Line. Ahora mismo quizás lo más atractivo de este servicio (para el que no tenga problemas con pagar), es lo que ellos llaman Line Premium Call, lo cual permite realizar llamadas internacionales por precios irrisorios.
El problema de Line es que no tiene cliente de escritorio para GNU/Linux, aunque ya vimos como usarlo mediante Pidgin, por lo que tenemos que echarle el guante con el viejo Wine, y claro, teniendo Telegram ¿para que lo quiero? pues es simple, para el que quiera usarlo. Así que mostraremos como usarlo mediante Wine en GNU/Linux.
Install and use Line with Wine
The first thing to do is install Wine as is logical. If you are using ArchLinux you must activate the Multilib repositories, because Wine is only for 32 bits. Wine is in most of the distributions, so using the package installer of each one, it can be installed without major mishap. Anyway, you can keep an eye on the Official site so they see the options they have.
Later we downloaded the client for Windows from the following link:
Once we download the file (.exe) we execute it and the installation wizard should come out from Wine with the following steps:
We select the language:
Start the wizard:
We accept the EULA:
We choose where to install Line (we leave it by default):
The installation begins:
Finish the installation:
Pressing Close will open the application to put our data:
And that's it. Obviously, we must create an account beforehand, and I don't know if there will be any other method that is not through the APP for mobile phones.
On topic: how is it with "playonlinux", I opened to try. Between wine and playonlinux, which one do you prefer?
Off topic: how horrible the Windows interface looks on Linux, although in reality, the KDE artwork is by far the prettiest when it comes to desktops and OS, there is no comparison; gnomers, materos, xfceros, etc, abstain ... hahahaha
Greetings and thanks for sharing.
I stay with Wine, because it comes in the repo 🙂… I'm lazy to go looking for packages outside the repo hehe
PlayOnLinux is in [community] of ArchLinux.
Now, I prefer to use Wine. I hate having a lot of windows open just to run a program.
I like LINE, in no other client do I find such kawaiis stickers (?)
but I'm not a good friend of wine u_ú
As additional information: the Line installer is made with the program NSIS, which is a utility to make Windows installers and uses the NSI language to compile them.
Very good guide KZKG ^ Gaara, if it is a pleasure to learn the linux world (I still have a lot to do), what difference is there between Telegram, Line, it? They are instant media type live massenger ... or by text ... audio ... and video conference ?, there is also "it", it would be good if you teach us to configure each one mentioned.
LAIN = Japanese USA = NSA !! (:
Did you know that in Japan there are from manga to video games and all kinds of Line girls? There they do not know of the existence of the guassap or the glorious Telegram. There the net is Line…. the Japs are rare.
I will leave my comment hater ... I hate fucking wine, I used this a long time ago on kaOS [64 bits] with wine and line, and after having everything working, boom, and it left, I followed the thread in wine in its time and it was an incompatibility 64 bit mode with wine in 32 bit, so they recommended to use a 32 bit kernel or pae, and there if it worked. [beware, it didn't really have to do with dependencies, it's that wine is a beast that only ensures its operation in 32 bit ... and I hate it: D]
I have only had bad experiences with Wine, and that I use ubuntu LTS and 32 bit. It slows down your system with several files running in the background, and Wine applications close themselves.
And it works well and is it stable?
Because I tried Office 2010 with Wine on linux and it works really lousy. It closes itself, complements are useless, it freezes, it cannot be activated, that is, it does not work.
Why install Office if you have it in the cloud? And even updated and free
If you do not have a network you can synchronize OneDrive with an Ubuntu folder; for this there is a client http://www.muypymes.com/2014/06/25/microsoft-one-drive-linux
https://github.com/xybu/onedrive-d#onedrive-d
Do you know how to make it do the page break alone? I tried to use it but it was not useful if it only gave me an infinite continuous page down.
I remember once asking in a forum and they told me that I could do the page breaks manually, I tried and indeed I could, but how am I supposed to know when a letter / legal size page ends?
It's too bad that there isn't a direct line version for gnu / linux, but it's good that there are ways to use it despite this.
P.S; I do not remember many people who use the line, most of the whatsapp
Good article. Thanks for sharing.