How to run eWallet on a linux PC?

Long time ago I wrote a blog post on eWallet titled Password galore. I still use eWallet on a daily basis and recently I was on mission to find if eWallet could be run on a linux PC – recently I migrated a couple of old Pentium III PCs to Fedora PCs at home hence was on a mission 😉

Looking at iLium Software web site I see that they support Windows/Mobile/iTouch/iPhone, but no Linux. But I use eWallet on flash drive every day (use U3 version) and it struck me that I could run it on a linux PC if I had wine installed (as eWallet is portable meaning none of the information is written on windows registry during runtime)

For folks not familiar with wine

Wine is a translation layer (a program loader) capable of running Windows applications on Linux and other POSIX compatible operating systems.

I have successfully tested eWallet on Fedora 5 and Fedora 9 and you will need wine installed prior to installing eWallet.

• To begin with, install wine – instructions available at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AndreasBierfert/Wine
• Download eWallet (Windows PC version) from http://www.iliumsoft.com/site/ew/ew_trial.php

• Open up a shell and start installing eWallet using wine

• Follow the installation instructions and have eWallet installed on your linux PC.
• To invoke eWallet, run eWallet.exe using wine again. I had mine installed under .wine/drive_c/Program Files/Ilium Software/eWallet/ and I invoked it using

wine .wine/drive_c/Program Files/Ilium Software/eWallet/eWallet.exe

• Once successfully installed, you could use your Windows name/key pair (emailed upon purchasing eWallet software) to register eWallet on your linux PC.

As you could it was really easy to install eWallet on a Fedora system. I bet it should easy on any Linux system irrespective of the linux flavor 😉

Drop me a note (using the comment window below) if you need any help with installing eWallet on a linux PC.

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