Creo on Linux: best practice

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July 15, 2024
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Hi there,

is there anyone, who managed to run Creo Parametric on a Linux machine?

I was able to start the installation in "wine", but it always has problems installing the "Platform Agent".

Installation

KenFarley

21-Topaz II

In the past I attempted to "wine", not for a Linux machine, but for OS X (a Unix based OS, too), though not Linux. I also tried to install Creo within a Virtual Machine. Never got it to work. I suspect that even if I could surmount all the hardware emulation difficulties (graphics, handling all the licensing communications, etc.) it would likely be very clunky.

I did what you might have already done, too, in that I checked on the Wine site as to what they had tested and all that for Creo. Unsurprisingly, the current rating for using Wine to run Creo 9.0 is "Garbage". There's insufficient interest in doing so for enough people to suffer through all the testing they'd need to do to get it to be acceptably functional. If that's even possible.

M

Mat

Author

16-Pearl

Luckily I was able to get Creo 10.0.5.0 running in Mint22 ( within a VM )

Steps to reproduce ( not a complete step-by-step tutorial)

Create a VM with VirtualBox
Install Mint 22 within the VM
Install "PlayOnLinux"
- "Install a program"
- "install non listed program"
- "install a programm in a new virtual drive"
- name it "creo 10" (e.g.)
- choose 64bit installation
- choose "setup.exe" in Creo installation folder
- During Creo Installation, I skipped the license configuration ( I do not know, if it made a difference)
- Surprisingly, the installation finished successfully
- Choose "parametric.exe" within the PlayOnLinux dialogue to create a shortcut for Creo
Navigate to Your virtual "c-drive" and the creo installation folder within to edit "parametric.psf" ( change values for license and features )
Start Creo from "PlayOnLinux"

When Creo starts, there are a bunch of warnings (e.g. I could not connect Creo to my windchill server because of a self signed certificate), but it runs for now.

Unfortunately, I do not have some "spare hardware" to install Mint22 directly, yet. But in the VM Creo is still some sort of usable.