> > Is there any other stable alternative that can make this > possible, for free? > > Wine might work. > I loaded wine and then loaded an ran the "winetools" (which I am told are now deprecated) and with a little tweeking, got an assortment of things that Windows likes to have around running. For example, Internet Explorer and the Windows installer. After that I got a fair number of windows programs to install and run although I did not try Photoshop as Gimp meets my needs. The winetools complains about the version of wine being too new, but I told it to go ahead and use it anyway and it worked good enough. You might want to try this setup and then try to run the photoshop installation. Robert Styma