mt4 in linux linpus

im noob in linux os and trying to install mt4 platform in linux..
can anybody guide me to install?

very appreciate of that, please... and thanks

linpus linux lite v1.0.3.e
acer aspire one

you cant fill a gasoline car with diesel fuel and expect it to run. the opposite is true as well. the only engines that can use any type of fuel (either it be gasoline, diesel, crude oil, cooking oil or even human fat tissues) are turbine engines.

But in the world of computer OS, there is no such thing as a "turbine engine" class.

Heh.

You run MT4 from Wine, but not linux directly. Wine is a windows emulator for linux, it's a kind of shell that takes windows code and combines it with windows libraries (APIs, DLLs) and other externals (like fonts) in order to get the program to run.

If you're a complete linux newb you should be prepared to do some work in order to get MT4 running. Once you've done it tho it'll seem easy from there on out. The learning curve is steep w/ linux, even w/ Ubuntu. I don't know if Linpus is any easier, but linux is not for the feint of heart.

Linky:
http://www.fxaddict.com/community/showthread.php?t=89

And:
http://www.moneyfanclub.com/forex-fo...r-4-linux.html

Those talk about it. For me, running Ubuntu 8.10, it was easier. Installed wine, then I installed winetricks (google for winetricks, it's not hard to install). With winetricks I installed the corefonts and the MFC32 libraries. Then you just run the metatrader install from wine and it'll install under wine w/o a problem.

Basically winetricks helps you install some of the external libraries you need to make MT4 work, once those are installed wine will run it just fine.

I did a little research on linpus, it looks like a stripped down version of Fedora. I'm not sure what you'll be able to accomplish on that, or whether it'll be able to run wine or not. Frankly I'd get a better OS if your device can support it.

I'd think it could, a 1.6ghz processor and 512mb ram is plenty for Ubuntu, altho you might run out of disk space if you're running the 8gb SSD version. Those things hold SDHC cards tho, don't they? So you could get a 16gb SDHC card and be fine.

Good luck. I've been running MT4 under linux (ubuntu 8.10, soon to be 9) for a while now without problems. The graphics are a little different, but you get used to it. Haven't noticed any serious bugs.

If you can't get wine to work you can always try virtualbox. It's a program from Sun that lets you install other OSes underneath it. You could get a cheap copy of XP, install virtualbox, then install XP underneath it and run windows w/ MT4.

I have mt4 run on both eeepc and aspireone (both linux), the installation is much easier on the aspire one, just follow this link: http://acer-aspire-one.blogspot.com/...spire-one.html
as for mt4, follow this link: http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=26861, but you do not need to type any thing or follow the instruction fully for aspireone, just double click on the mt4 setup file after you have installed wine. u need to copy the 2 dll files, also the font needed for expert and indicators' arrows and smiling face, i think the font is WinDings or something similar. to see the windows font folder under .wine, you need to enable advance mode in the aspireone, and enable view hidden files. if you need more info, you are welcome to email me. in a hurry now.

I have installed MT4 on the latest Ubuntu version, 9.04 Jaunty, using Wine.

All seems OK, apart from the fact that I cannot edit any of the indicator parameters in the indicator boxes. I notice this applies to indicators that I make and then compile. The default indicators that are installed allow alterations inside the parameter boxes. (Given that both sets of indicators reside in the Experts>Indicators folder, I have never worked out what enables MT4 to separate them into the 2 views in the Navigator pane, but that is another story). I have a workaround, in that I can open MetaEditor and alter the parameters in the mq4 file, and then recompile. The new indicator then has the settings I want.

Has anyone had this issue before and did you find a way of solving it?

Are you sure the file is recompiling in metaeditor? I've had a problem where the newest versions of wine (past 1.01, betas) don't work w/ metaeditor.

For your problem, you can't edit indicator parms at all? If you add an indi to a chart, then right click on the chart, then go to indicators list, do you see a box w/ your indicators in it? If you now go down to the indi and over to the inputs tab, you should be able to edit those vars. I can using 9.04 and wine 1.01. You just go over each and quickly double click, then either an input box or a pulldown appears.

Try it with multiple indicators, does it just not work with 1 particular indicator (could be something with the one you have?) or does it not work with all custom indicators?

hi Rabid,
yes, the files are definitely compiling OK with MetaEditor. I am running Wine 1.0.1 also. The problem is specifically confined to Custom indicators, all default indicators allow access to the variables on the Input tabs. I attach a png file of the input tab for a Custom Indicator. If I place the cursor over the variable line, it highlights, but any attempt to get into the box to get another colour is unsuccessful.

I have a sneaking suspicion that this might be a dll problem. Can I ask what dll's you placed into the System 32 folder? I copied across the following from my XP installation.
mfc42.dll
mfc42u.dll
MFC42ENU.DLL (no idea why this is all caps).

I copied my Winding fonts over and generally have no problem there, apart from black boxes in the Navigator pane, but it is no big deal.

As an aside, any idea how to get DDE with MT4 running under Ubutnu?

Ah. Hrm. I haven't tried changing colors on anything, maybe it's the color selection box. Can you change bools true/false? Can you input specific integers? Those are the 2 things I do most frequently.


I used winetricks to install the MFC and corefonts libraries. I didn't use XP's.


My navi pane works perfectly, altho the highlights are a bit off on the toolbar at the top.


Never used it. I do use the email setup tho, and that works fine.

One problem I've had w/ MT4 under wine is that a general wine crash will kill MT4, and when that happens it can leave files open. If virtualbox 3 gets perfected (has native window support, which means you can drag virtual windows to the gnome desktop) I'll probably switch to that for this reason.

1. Open the Software Sources menu by going to Applications->Ubuntu Software Center, then selecting Edit->Software Sources. Choose the Other Software tab and click Add."ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa"

2. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
3. sudo apt-get update
4. sudo apt-get install wine1.3
5. rm -f winetricks
6. wget http://winetricks.org/winetricks
7. sudo cp winetricks /usr/bin
8. sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/winetricks
9. sh winetricks corefonts vcrun6

I am now run MT4 on linux Mint. I hope it will run well and soon I will be able to 100% migrate.

Thank you so much.

Yes there is. And it is called Linux. And it can even make coffee and wash your dishes at the same time.