Welcome to the forum! I paste this here, as some of it should prove helpful,
though the wording may seem slightly off kilter.
Here's a refresher of steps to install Native Instruments products
in linux, that arive as .iso files, uncovered by Reaper users
osxmidi, and Jack Winter (another K8 owner),
posts here sometimes, often in the Reaper-linux forum, among other places.
(
https://forum.cockos.com/forumdisplay.php?f=52 )
These steps assume using wine-staging from wineHQ, and windows Reaper in that wine
(most plugins can then be wrapped in linvst for use in various linux daws)
Let's say you want to use Native Access in linux
to try and install a Native Instruments product like Phasis.iso
Launch Native Access like this:
wine /home/you/.wine/drive_c/"Program Files/Native Instruments/Native Access/Native Access.exe"
(note the quotes used to 'capture' paths that include spaces!
and that it's all on one command-line) )
As Native Access re-downloads Phasis,
it stops before completion
with some error.
The download itself is fine :hihi: so look for
the product's .iso file in
/home/you/.wine/drive_c/Users/you/Downloads/Phasis.iso
As root or sudo, make a folder in which to mount the iso image,
I chose /media/cdrom
issue this command to mount the .iso file:
sudo mount -t udf /home/you/.wine/drive_c/Users/you/Downloads/Phasis.iso -o unhide /media/cdrom
(the above is all on one command line, not two separate commands,
as will be the example below))
Now browse to that folder, /media/cdrom and find the installer.exe,
and run the installer with command:
wine path-to-name-of.exe
For an installer with spaces in it's title, look at this example,
again, noting the path contains spaces requires surrounding " quotes " :
sudo mount -t udf /home/you/.wine/drive_c/Users/you/Downloads/"Reaktor Spark R2.2.iso" -o unhide /media/cdrom
use commands
cd /media/cdrom followed by
ls
to list the contents, which will include the installer.exe Then command:
wine "Reaktor Spark R2.2.exe"
Soon your product is installed, and it's time for registration.
Back to Native Access, where you can use the 'Add a Serial Number'
dialog for each product you own, a simple cut/paste, with success verified
in a few moments of internet speed.
edit: what if your installer title looks like this? :
wine /media/cdrom/Razor%201.7.0%20Setup%20PC.exe
You'll want to edit out the instances of %20 (some weird placeholder? )
and replace each one with a space, and then quote the path containg spaces:
wine /media/cdrom/"Razor 1.7.0 Setup PC.exe"
also, between installs, or when finished, use this command to
clear out un-needed files:
sudo umount /media/cdrom
(and that's not unmount, but umount, no typo, just nix shorthan
)
end-edit
When you try to install Native Access itself, what if you discover
the proverbial chicken and egg are slow-dancing, rather than
installing your software? You might have to copy
over the related Native Access folders from a windows partition,
you might need to install some wine 'over-rides', you might need
the latest version of wine-staging, rather than an older distro-version.