# NLP on Linux and FreeBSD

**URL:** <https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/nlp-on-linux-and-freebsd/8994>\
**Category:** Guides and How-Tos\
**Created:** [March 9, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/nlp-on-linux-and-freebsd/8994 "2025-03-09T16:45:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![antoniob](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forums.negativelabpro.com/antoniob/32/585_2.png) [@antoniob](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/u/antoniob)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/nlp-on-linux-and-freebsd/8994/1 "2025-03-09T16:45:28Z")

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I bought a license of NLP in 03.2020, after I was testing the possibility to run Lightroom on WINE in Linux or FreeBSD. WINE is a Windows emulator that can support some Windows software. The other way. much heavier, is to run a virtual PC like Virtualbox or VMMware, install a Windows on it, then Lightroom.  
Back in 2020 I could install LR6 on WINE by prior installation of a set of additional DLL (use winetricks for instance) and on FreeBSD had to manually compile a x86-x64 WINE.  
Other versions (7,8,9) of Lightroom I could not install or could but did crash at runtime because more serious issues with underlying MS components calls, but LR6 is better anyway because the last non-subscription version.

I stopped using NLP after two months, but the other day I saw the files in a hardisk I was archiving and decided to try on the current WINE, versions 10.x.  
It installs flawlessly and, for the short time I played with it, runs well. In winecfg I set Windows version as 7.  
Only glitch I have experienced is that the “CONVERT NEGATIVES” text in the push rectangle of NLP doesn’t show, but you just click in it:

 ![Skjermbilde_2025-03-09_05-41-34](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/negativelabpro/original/2X/4/4b0fec3644f7b92074fb76f024569571f392642f.jpeg)

a desktop capture, showing Linux version and bit of practical setting like paths and shortcuts, and LR ran from 2:20:

[![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/negativelabpro/original/2X/f/fb32918d3d97815e5bc868e3ecb77629fc005f2b.jpeg "Negative Lab Pro - Lightroom 6.14 - WINE Linux") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEcNRIBNPtg)

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**Author:** ![nate](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forums.negativelabpro.com/nate/32/4_2.png) [@nate](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/u/nate)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 4:12pm UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/nlp-on-linux-and-freebsd/8994/2 "2025-03-10T16:12:51Z")

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Very cool! Thanks for sharing!