![]() I didn’t find any misbehavior within the app itself on a quick initial tour. Just hit the Super Key and start to type in Scrivener-once the app icon appears (this is actually the Wine icon on my laptop, with a Scrivener caption beneath) select it and hit Enter to launch. You need to navigate to the install location (.wine/drive_c/’Program Files’/Scrivener3) and issue the wine command again to launch Scrivener for the first time, i.e.,Īll subsequent launches are easy, at least on a Gnome desktop. The workaround, again, is via the terminal. On my system, the installer has trouble creating a desktop launcher. Then use the wine command to install it, like so: Just drop into the Terminal app and navigate to wherever you downloaded the installer. If you do, you’ll liable to get this error: You may get an error message when you double click the installer. I’m sure many in-depth reviews will follow in the coming days-for now, the aim is just to get you started.ĭownload the appropriate version (in most cases, 64-bit) here. Here’s a quick tutorial on installing Scrivener 3 on Linux (in my case, Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS). There’s still an installation error you may need to work around, but once you do you’ll be happy with the results. I’ve written a number of posts on Scrivener 3 betas just search on “Scrivener 3” to find them. Is it worth the $49 cost? Absolutely there’s no real competition. And once you do have Scrivener 3 up and running, it’s good looking and functional. ![]() ![]() There are a few initial glitches, at least on my Ubuntu setup, but they’re easily circumvented. Let’s take a quick look at how it works with Wine on Linux. It may be April Fool’s Day, but the official release actually came on March 23. After a very long wait, Scrivener 3 for Windows has finally been released.
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