MarcEdit under Ubuntu Linux

HowTo install MarcEdit under Ubuntu 13.04, via Mono or Wine

originally posted here

// MarcEdit via MONO

Terry Reese’s only install instructions for Linux on his Worklog: http://blog.reeset.net/archives/805. The mentioned “Install.txt” does not even exist in the latest iteration of MarcEdit, see the relevant part below.
There is also a tutorial on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N65IHRiRby8

The following set-up was done on Ubuntu 13.04

# install MonoDevelop (http://monodevelop.com/)
sudo apt-get install monodevelop

# create you MARC records working directory
mkdir MarcRecords; cd MarcRecords

# download the latest version of MarcEdit from http://marcedit.reeset.net/downloads and unzip
wget http://marcedit.reeset.net/software/marcedit_other.zip; unzip marcedit_other.zip; rm marcedit_other.zip

# following the MarcEdit install instructions run the following command once (also check other dependencies: http://blog.reeset.net/archives/805):
mono ~/MarcRecords/marcedit_linux/linux_bootloader.exe

# a permanent alias makes it easier to start MarcEditin the future
echo "alias marcedit='mono ~/MarcRecords/marcedit_linux/MarcEdit.exe'" >> ~/.bash_aliases

# restart Terminal in order to activate the alias

# start MarcEdit.exe via alias "marcedit"
marcedit

# or start MarcEdit.exe via
mono ~/MarcRecords/marcedit_linux/MarcEdit.exe

From Terry Reese’s “MarcEdit Installation Instructions”:

Install.txt Last Modified: 12/28/2009

"LINUX/OTHER INSTALLATION PROCEDURE:  

1.1  INSTALLATION FROM ZIP  

a) Ensure that the dependencies have been installed  
   1) Dependency list:  
      i) MONO 2.4+ (Runtime plus the System.Windows.Forms library [these are sometimes separate])  
     ii) YAZ 3 + YAZ 3 develop Libraries + YAZ++ ZOOM bindings  
    iii) ZLIBC libraries  
     iV) libxml2/libxslt libraries  
b) Unzip marcedit.zip  
c) Navigate to the MarcEdit program directory and run linux_bootloader.exe (example, mono linux_bootloader.exe)  
d) Yaz.Sharp.dll.config — ensure that the dllmap points to the correct version of the shared libyaz object.  
e) main_icon.bmp can be used for a desktop icon  
f) On first run:  
   a) mono MarcEdit.exe  
   b) Preferences tab will open, click on other, and set the following two values:  
      i) Temp path: /tmp/  
     ii) MONO path: [to your full mono path; likely /usr/bin/mono]"  

// MarcEdit via WINE

sudo apt-get install wine

WINEPREFIX='/home/USERNAME/wine32' WINEARCH='win32' wine 'wineboot'
WINEPREFIX='/home/USERNAME/wine32' bash winetricks dotnet40 corefonts

wget http://marcedit.reeset.net/software/MarcEdit_Setup.msi

WINEPREFIX='/home/USERNAME/wine32' msiexec /i MarcEdit_Setup.msi

rm MarcEdit_Setup.msi

echo "alias winmarc='WINEPREFIX='/home/USERNAME/wine32' wine /home/USERNAME/wine32/drive_c/Program\ Files/MarcEdit\ 5.0/MarcEdit.exe'" >> ~/.bash_aliases

# restart Terminal

# start MarcEdit.exe via alias "winmarc"
winmarc

# or start MarcEdit.exe via
WINEPREFIX='/home/USERNAME/wine32' wine /home/USERNAME/wine32/drive_c/Program\ Files/MarcEdit\ 5.0/MarcEdit.exe