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antares

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Registered: 2019-01-24

Posts: 50

MT 4 on linux

Hello
Could anyone help?
Would wish to install MT 4 forex trading terminal on OS Scorpion

Situation is a bit strange
This is easy and there is a thing which I did before

Installed  MT 4 terminal on windows 7 and  just copied file with metatrader
Then  placed it in usb memory stick where Q4OS runs from
All functioned fine

But now I want terminal from other broker
My 7 is out of order now and everyone around me has 10

Installed MT 4  on 10 of my neibour and .........did not find file with metatrader in program files folder where it should be
MT 4 runs but where is the file?
Searched ewerywhere but to no avail

MT 4 has new installer now which does not ask where to place terminal during installation prosess

This led me to idea to install MT 4 on Q4OS directly
For ubuntu this way is quite straitforward  and described on many sites

But I love Q4OS because of stability and  almost preinstalled  WINE 

Searched forums and found many years old post that it was possible
One just has to install 2 files in /home/user/ file  /home/user/.wine/drive_c/

mfc42.dll in windows/system32/, and windings.ttf in windows/fonts/

Is it realy possible and how to do it correctly for pure debian step by step?
If not then how to do it in some other way ?

Excuse linux newbie for naive questions

Your advice will be much appeciated

Regards

Last edited by antares (2020-02-11 20:33)

q4osteam

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Registered: 2015-12-06

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Re: MT 4 on linux

Is it realy possible and how to do it correctly for pure debian step by step?

Yes, it should be possible to follow pure Debian instructions.

antares

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Registered: 2019-01-24

Posts: 50

Re: MT 4 on linux

Nice to hear that !
Be so kind and give some guidance of what to do

Is it realy possible and how to do it correctly for pure debian step by step?

Yes, it should be possible to follow pure Debian instructions.

bin

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2016-01-28

Posts: 1,333

Re: MT 4 on linux

If you have used the Q4OS Wine installer then you should have Winetricks installed.

Open Konsole/Terminal and

 winetricks list-all | grep mfc42.dll

Provided it shows mfc42.dll in the listing then

 winetricks mfc42.dll

should do the trick
wingding.tff should be installable via the same process - probably listed under core fonts. You may find you already have it on your machine - just search for wingding.ttf and copy it to the location specified above.