Audible Manager on Ubuntu (requires patching/compilation of wine)

Apparently Audible.com is working with open-source providers to give us a native Audible Manager for Linux. Recently, they released an Audible application for Android phones, so that seems like they are at least working with Linux in some form or fashion.

But I am impatient and don't like waiting for corporate bureaucracy to "fix" things that are broken. (How does that go again? Whatever cuts least into our bottomline...)

So, there is a patch proposed here that fixes the shortcoming (bug) in the API that wine had when dealing with SSL/TLS connections. Right off the bat, the patch does not work for the latest wine release (1.3.3). A little editing was required to patch the right files (dlls/wininet/internet.c iirc).


I fixed up the patch (which you can download by clicking here) so that after downloading the wine 1.3.3 tarball, I unpacked the tarball, patched, compiled, and indeed the patch works.

Specific commands used...

wget http://files.volatileminds.net/misc/audible_wine-1.3.3.patch
tar xjf wine-1.3.3.tar.bz2 
cd wine-1.3.3/
patch -p0 < ../audible_wine-1.3.3.patch
./configure --prefix=$HOME/wine
make && make install

I did however need to get the wine dependencies from apt...

apt-get build-dep wine

Hope this helps others in the same boat as me! I hate waiting for companies to find time to appease the customers rather than making time.