Open Dental 11 Trial on Linux

[Justin Shafer]

Dont use this in a production enviroment unless your ready to assume the risk and consequences. This is more for fun. If it doesn't sound fun, DON'T DO IT!

Install Ubuntu 11.10 (or thats what this was tested on)

Here is a script to make it easy.. For fun. The database and binary files are taken from the latest trial..
When mysql-server asks you to create a password, that will be for the user called root. Remember the password, you will need it to login to OpenDental. Either execute it line by line or throw it in a file and make it an executable script.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
sudo apt-get install wine
sudo mkdir /OpenDental
sudo chmod 777 /OpenDental
cd /OpenDental
wget http://66.147.226.202/odtrial.sql
mysql -u root -p < odtrial.sql
winetricks directx9 dotnet20 gdiplus richtx32 vcrun2010 corefonts
wget http://66.147.226.202/od.zip
unzip od.zip
rm od.zip
wget http://66.147.226.202/OpenDentImages.zip
sudo mkdir /OpenDentImages
sudo unzip OpenDentImages.zip -d /OpenDentImages
sudo chmod -R 777 /OpenDentImages/*
sudo chmod 777 /OpenDentImages
sudo chmod 777 /OpenDental/opendental.desktop
cp /OpenDental/opendental.desktop ~/Desktop
cp /OpenDental/opendental.desktop ~/
cp /OpenDental/opendental.desktop ~/.local/share/applications
wine OpenDental.exe

[Justin Shafer]

another way to do this would be:

Go To Terminal:

wget http://66.147.226.202/odtrial
sudo chmod 777 odtrial
./odtrial

[Justin Shafer]

I added a file that is on the desktop or your home folder, its a unity launcher that executes OpenDental with wine.. Drag it to the launcher and then you can easiy rerun OpenDental.. even gave it an icon.


Someone give it a whirl, you will be surprised it works..

[wjstarck]

I like it when you get bored.

Fun things happen

[Justin Shafer]

I should be working! I know I have something to do!

[Justin Shafer]

Drawing is slow with VMWare 8.. Much faster on a real pc that supports OpenGL. I have found the chart is faster with opengl and wine. You should run glxgears and glxinfo to make sure opengl is working. Load OD, go to File and Graphics... Choose OpenGL, hardware acceleration and double buffering. I think VMWare 7 would be faster. glxgears runs okay in vmware... strange..

VirtualBox is much faster for me, but not killer fast.

I need a new video card! My old one broke, so I am using the one before that. Ati X1600. Im sure that doesnt help.

Also, we are running dotnet 2.0.. I am willing to bet there is some functionality that will be broken. You could end up damaging your database.. It will be your own fault. Dont use this in a production enviroment unless your ready to assume the risk and consequences.

I would like to run mono with wine, just for directx and opengl functionality.. But I dont see that happening. Maybe someone will figure out how to install dotnet4 on wine, but so far people are still working on 3.5.. and 3.0....

OD can be recompiled for Mono, but its a pain. You could tell visual studio to compile OD in dotnet 2.0, but I doubt it would compile.

[jimgaas]

This is fantastic!
I installed OD on Ubuntu 11.10 running in Virtualbox with a Windows 7 host.
I am having some graphics issues but it does run.
Great work! I love it.