Installing Windows LTspice on UNIX
Dec 02 2015
Download the Windows version of LTspice from https://www.linear.com/designtools/software/.
OS X
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Download Wineskin from SourceForge.
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Unzip Wineskin Winery and move it into your
/Applications/
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Run Wineskin Winery. You will be greeted with a window like this:
Under “Installed Engines,” click “+” then “Download and Install.” If you like, click “+” again, and then “Don’t Prompt Any of These as New.” Under “Wrapper Version,” click “Update.”
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Click “Create a New Blank Wrapper.” Name the wrapper, and it will be placed in
~/Applications/Wineskin
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Wineskin will walk you through installing the necessary prerequisites. Eventually you should get a window with a menu. One of the items will be “Install Software.”
Note: If this window never appears, go to your wrapper in the Finder, right-click on it, and click “Show Package Contents.” Run the application “Wineskin” that you find in that folder.
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Click “Install Software,” and select the .exe you downloaded. The installer will run. After the installer finishes, you will be asked which executable you want to use. Select “scad3.exe”.
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Run the wrapper by double-clicking on it. The LTspice window should come up. You can now use the Windows version of LTspice as an ordinary OS X application.
You can get more information on Wineskin in its Manual.
Debian/Ubuntu
Installing
$ sudo apt-get install wine $ wine LTspiceIV.exe
Running
In your ~/.bashrc
, add:
alias ltspice='wine "~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/LTC/LTspiceIV/scad3.exe"'
Now you can run ltspice &
from a terminal to open an LTspice window.
Other UNIX
Wine is likely in the package repositories for your distro. If not, you can get it at https://www.winehq.org/.
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