Recently we aquired a Sony Cybershot n50 I hooked this camera up to my Linux system and it picked it right up as Linux does with many Digital Camera’s and the world was good. Then one evening I get home from a long night at work and my newly converted from Windows wife is asking for her Window’s install back. New Linux users can be so difficult to please. Anyways upon investigation I found out that she just wanted to run the Sony Picture Motion Browser software that came with the Camera. So I fired up wine-doors and put the disk in and gave it a try inside Linux.
How to install the Picture Motion Browser in Wine
I wasn’t sure if this would work but it did work very well and here is how I installed the Sony Picture Motion Browser in Linux. To install the Picture Motion Browser I used the install from disk option which can be found in the File menu of Wine-doors. Once installed the program works fine. Wine will work with USB devices that are supported in the Linux kernel. Just another piece of information that may come in handy to know. And likely this fact has a little bit to do with why this program is able to work in Linux with the camera even though it is a Windows program.
Also, for those of you who ended up on this page because your Partner is wanting another Windows program installed, I feel your pain :o).

