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.
Installing eWallet, or Data Guardian, or any of a number of Windows programs on a Linux system using Wine is not the problem. USING eWallet on that Linux system in conjunction with an iPod *is*. Unfortunately, Bonjour won’t install and so there’s no way for the install of eWallet to ‘see’ the iPod so that you can sync.
Great post by the way – don’t want that to be lost from my comment. I’m just elaborating a little bit on it and any bitterness is purely on my part because of the lack of syncing. I have a laptop on which I have XP, Kubuntu and Mint 6, and a Mac Mini on my desktop. It’s proving damn near impossible to have a single catchall program for sign ons, numbers, etc that is accessible on ALL four (including the iPod now) platforms. eWallet is great for a Windows system, or for a Linux system via Wine if you just want the desktop half. I want something that allows bulk input and editing (desktop) that also sync’s with the iPod.
I am a big fan of ewallet and have been using it on Linux and Windows for a long time.
I recently bought the upgrade to version 7 but there is a new problem because of a dependency on .Net 3.5 and I don’t believe this is Wine compatible yet.
I emailed support pointing out Wine and how big Linux is becoming and they said “eWallet’s not really meant to be a cross-platform program. Developing eWallet 7 with the .NET Framework gives us a lot more flexibility in what the program can do and makes it easier to handle errors.”
Hi Guys, I have successful install wine and ewallet 4.01 under ubuntu 10.04. Running ewallet without any problem but can’t open *.wlt file that created by XP . The error message is “wrong database version number”
Any suggestion to solve this problem or help?
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