Has anyone had success in installing Sunny explorer?
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Moved from Tutorials to General Help, as this seems you need help installing this versus giving a guide on how-to 
It's a Windows product. Have you checked for alternatives that works on Linux?
If OP not reporting back I'll delete the post and account, I suspect a spammer.
Are you referring to me as a Scammer?
Sunny explorer is a blue tooth connection to my solar panel inverter.
I have tried to install the program but the only result is the icon appears in the apps but nothing happens,
Ah okay. We have lately a lot of spammers going on, so I wasn't sure.
Generative A.I. has also been making the replicants blend in more easily.
I have never installed this. However, looking at their page, it looks like this is for Windows Only.
So, this would need to be run in Wine. It requires install of .NET framework >4.0
I would recommend installing .NET prior to installing the Sunny Explorer software, even though it offers to include its installation. This is because complex installs in Wine can be touchy.
You might check around the WineHQ Forums for more experts in Wine for this, as well.
EDIT:
Re-reading this, I should expand on other options:
- Bottles: Bottles is a means of running Windows apps on GnuLinux in a containerized environment
- Steam: Steam with Proton can be used to install and run non-game applications by adding it from your chosen directory.
- VM: Using a virtual machine, you can install Windows OS, then install any Windows only applications to this virtual machine to run them.
- Dual boot: You know this one, I am sure... but install and run Windows OS and GnuLinux from the same machine, choosing which to boot into.
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Thanks Aravisian
I am new to Linux.
I need al the help I can get as I really want this Zorin to work as I am fed up with microsoft and google.
Can you walk me through the process?
How do I load .NET framework >4.0 and what I do next.
When I was trying to install Sunny Explorer Notifications said it was down loading Wine but it was never confirmed. How do I find out If it Has been Installed?
One of the biggest disservices that Microsoft has done is teach the end user to ignore the content of notification windows. With vague error messages "Error 8x000x" or "This program has performed in illegal operation", over a decade of conditioning that these windows contain gibberish and uselessness.
The habit must be made to read the content of the notifications or terminal output. They are informative and often tell you what you need to know.
To check wine install, you can run one of a large number of commands. But
which wine
should work, simply relaying /usr/bin/wine if it is installed.
I have been using GnuLinux for some years now, and there is plenty I do not know
Particularly in regards to WINE and Windows compatibility layers. It's not an area I really studied, being eager to ditch all things Windows.
So, you can install .NET directly on GnuLinux - indeed I have it installed for various IDE's and SDK's.
Is that good enough? Or does it need to be installed in WINE? I do not know the answer to this.
So a better resource may be WineHQ Forum where Wine-knowledgeable users may give better advice.
You can install wine in a variety of ways, by the way.
It depends on which version you want and which tools you want to tack onto it.
On this distro, running
sudo apt install zorin-windows-app-support
will install the version of Wine supplied by the ZorinGroup.
Once it is installed, you can then run the .exe installer for the application you wish to install, for example your downloaded .NET installer or the Sunny Explorer installer.
Every thing went as planned ten it froze.
When I selected "show details" on the Icon this is what I got
You may have noticed that I also have a keyboard problem of a pause betwen typing keys. results in typed letters not showing up unless I type very slowly. Any sugestions
This a long shot, but I read on your other thread that you use Wayland. Try switch to Xorg and see if the problem persist.
I give it a try
One of the options Aravisian mentioned is Bottles. You could try that, as Bottles is able to set up .NET framework inside a bottle without running the .NET installer. I personally use Bottles exclusively for anything but Steam Windows games; I've just had better luck. If you want to try that, run Bottles (installing Windows App Support includes bottles I think; if not you can install it from the software store. This is a substantial bit of extra prep, but I've found it worthwhile, and I'll walk you through it. I hope it's valuable to someone; this was a lot of typing and screenshots!
Once it's running, you'll need to click through a bit and let it do its thing the first time. Then, create a new bottle (+ in the top left corner). I recommend choosing gaming rather than application. It'll take a little more space on your drive, but it includes more dependencies, so there's less risk of having something missing later. It's possible to make a later step easier if you choose a custom location* for your bottles, but let's leave it at the default for now, to keep explanations and locations predictable.
Once the bottle is made, click on it to open it:
Click Dependencies down in options:
There's a lot there! Scroll down or search (magnifying glass in the top right corner) for an appropriate version of .NET framework. Your screenshots show 4, so let's pick 4.8.
Click on the download arrow on the right and wait for it to finish. Once it does, back out of dependencies (arrow in the top left).
This next step isn't 100% mandatory in all situations, but it makes things much less likely to fail in my experience.** On the bottle's main screen, click the three dots in the top left, and choose "Browse files." This will put you in the C:\ drive of your bottle. Copy the installer here, but don't run it yet. If you do, Zorin's Windows App Support will do its thing and you'll get the same problem you already had. Instead, once you copy it into the folder, close the file explorer and go back to the bottle. Click Run Executable, the big, blue button (at least with my theme...). It's going to ask you which executable you wanted to run.
This is the trickiest part, because by default, it's stored in your dot files, which are hidden. So, in the Select Executable box, click Home on the left. In your home directory, turn on hidden files. (Right click empty space and check Show Hidden Files.) Look for .var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles/bottles/<name of your bottle>/drive_c. Yep. Buried! (This is the part that can be easier if you set a custom location for your bottles, but then I couldn't give you an exact location here.*)
Select your executable, and then click "Run" in the top right to start the installer. It should skip installing .NET because .NET should already exist in the bottle.*** Once this is done, Bottles should detect the newly installed application and add an entry to the bottle's main screen. (If the installer just fails, look below in the paragraphs about setting the runner. You may need to do that here.) If you look at my screenshot above, it has Genshin Impact, Zenless Zone Zero, and launcher. The play button will run any of those. For quicker access, you can click the three dots menu by a program in the bottle's main screen, and add to library, create desktop entry, or add to Steam. Library is basically a quick access screen in Bottles for ALL your executables across all bottles:
Finally, there's one especially important setting you may or may not need to adjust, and which is trial and error. Open your bottle and click Settings. The first setting is Runner. You're effectively setting which WINE runner handles this bottle. If you've heard of Proton, which Steam uses to make games work, this is that kind of thing. By default, Bottles comes with a runner called Soda, which I've not found very useful. For example, Battle.Net will install using Soda, but you can't actually log into it unless you install a different runner.
You can see I'm using ge-proton9-15. You won't have that or any other runner, but they're easy to add. Close Bottles entirely and open Zorin's software store. You want either ProtonPlus or ProtonUp-Qt. I find ProtonPlus a bit more user friendly, but neither is hard to use.
I'll use ProtonPlus for this example.
Select Bottles on the left, then Proton-GE on the right. Pick the latest version, 9-15 at the time of this writing. You can install more than one if you want to try different runners, in case the newest doesn't work for some reason. You can also uninstall runners from here. If you play games, you can also add runners to Steam this way. (it calls them "compatibility tools.") The vast, vast majority of the time, there's no point in looking at runners other than Proton-GE. They're highly specialized, and not meant for anything outside their specialty.
Once the runner is installed, you can close ProtonPlus or ProtonUp-Qt and go back to bottles. Open your bottle's settings, pick the runner you just installed, and try again.
*I keep my bottles on a separate partition JUST for bottles, so when I go looking for my bottles, I just click "Other Locations," then Bottles, but that requires tutorials on partitioning and mounting that would make this a mess.
**The reason moving the installer into the bottle's drive C and then running via run executable makes things more reliable is because it puts it inside the bottle's file system. Running an installer from outside the bottle MIGHT work, but I've had bad luck with it and always do it this way.
***One of the nice things about Bottles is that unlike using Wine directly, it isolates everything in a bottle for you. You could have .NET installed in one, not installed in another, and if you want to get rid of a program, as long as you didn't put something else in the same bottle, you can just delete the bottle, and there's no system cleanup necessary.
As an update, I've given this four tries now, and while I've gotten Sunny Explorer installed, it fails when running, no matter what I try. A virtual machine might do the job or you might have more luck with a Wine specific forum for people who know the tricks better than I do.
I did a quick search on Wine HQ database. There is more than one entry...
But here are two of them. They are quite old.
The first is the older of them two and gives a "Bronze" rating.
The slightly newer one, though gives a rating of "Garbage":
I was trying with a much newer version than that, 2.01.21.R, so it looks like things haven't improved there.
Well, it looks like you gave it your best shot.thanks very much. I will give up on trying to use Sunny Explorer/
I have only switched to Zorin a few days ago to get away from microsoft and google and I would really like to get it running properly.
I tried Zorin about 10 years ago and didn't have any of the issues I now have.
I appreciate the help you have given me
Do you have to time or inclination to assist me with a few other problems?