HP Prime PC-side software no longer runs on Wine?

[nlj]

I'm wondering if anyone has had any success running the new version of the HP Prime emulator on Wine (the Windows compatibility layer) on GNU/Linux? I have been unsuccessful.

Previous versions of the software have installed fine on Wine, and the emulator update (Calculator menu | Check for Update) has worked fine too.

The calculator loses a lot of its value if it won't work with a PC, and my understanding (hopefully someone will correct me) is that HP are only providing software built for a Windows platform and that there is none for UNIX-like systems like GNU/Linux and Mac OS. Consequently the failure of the latest software to run on a Windows compatibility layer like Wine is a big step backwards.

For completeness I provide details of what went wrong installing the software on Wine.

First of all I tried to run the update from the menu in the Prime emulator (Rev. 6031 of 2014-03-31). When that failed I tried downloading and installing a new version of the emulator (Version 1.20.7820.68) from the HP ftp site but again the install failed.

I get the the error message "0x80070538 - Invalid ACL". Looking at the log, things seem to start out okay, then this happens:

Quote:[0022:0023][2015-05-18T14:33:05]i301: Applying execute package: vcredist_x86EXE, action: Install, path: C:\users\Public\Application Data\Package Cache\18F81495BC5E6B293C69C28B0AC088A96DEBBAB2\vcredist_x86.exe, arguments: '"C:\users\Public\Application Data\Package Cache\18F81495BC5E6B293C69C28B0AC088A96DEBBAB2\vcredist_x86.exe" /quiet /norestart -burn.ancestors={481dacbe-0f9b-414c-995b-fb0bbee4ecc5}'
[0022:0023][2015-05-18T14:33:05]e000: Error 0x80070538: Failed to create the security descriptor for the connection event and pipe.
[0022:0023][2015-05-18T14:33:05]e000: Error 0x80070538: Failed to create embedded pipe.
[0022:0023][2015-05-18T14:33:05]e000: Error 0x80070538: Failed to run bundle as embedded from path: C:\users\Public\Application Data\Package Cache\18F81495BC5E6B293C69C28B0AC088A96DEBBAB2\vcredist_x86.exe