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Any way of getting Express on Ubuntu/Linux PC's?

Former Member
Former Member over 10 years ago
Hi,

Having purchased a Garmin Nuvi with "Free Lifetime Maps" I thought that this would be a snip to update the maps. However, Garmin are forcing the download of Garmin Express, which I can not get to work on my Ubuntu Machine.

Has anyone had any success with this or got a work around? I have tried with Wine, and searched the net with no luck to date.

What the kicker is, is that nowhere on the box does it say Garmin Express is required or that it will only work on Microsoft or Apple corporation software.

Chris
  • 0 over 10 years ago
    Hi,

    Having purchased a Garmin Nuvi with "Free Lifetime Maps" I thought that this would be a snip to update the maps. However, Garmin are forcing the download of Garmin Express, which I can not get to work on my Ubuntu Machine.

    Has anyone had any success with this or got a work around? I have tried with Wine, and searched the net with no luck to date.

    What the kicker is, is that nowhere on the box does it say Garmin Express is required or that it will only work on Microsoft or Apple corporation software.

    Chris

    I tried wine as well with no luck so far (1.7.34). The Garmin Express installer starts, but it fails when it tries to install the Microsoft Net Framework.
    As I won't have a Windows PC with me in the upcoming trainings camp, I'm curious how much data the Forerunner 910XT can store... ;-)

    If anybody else has any luck with Garmin Express on Linux, please let us know.
    A virtual machine isn't really an option to me, I'd like to use my netbook where space is somewhat limited.

    Thorsten
  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to THOR_42

    Hello,

    Same problem with Ubuntu 19.10:

    > wine GarminExpress.exe
    Could not load wine-gecko. HTML rendering will be disabled.
    Could not load wine-gecko. HTML rendering will be disabled.
    wine: configuration in '/home/dkorzhevin/.wine' has been updated.
    004b:err:winediag:SECUR32_initNTLMSP ntlm_auth was not found or is outdated. Make sure that ntlm_auth >= 3.0.25 is in your path. Usually, you can find it in the winbind package of your distribution.
    0052:err:ole:marshal_object Failed to create an IRpcStubBuffer from IPSFactory for {659cdeac-489e-11d9-a9cd-000d56965251} with error 0x80004002
    0064:err:ole:ClientIdentity_QueryMultipleInterfaces IRemUnknown_RemQueryInterface failed with error 0x80004002

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to AbleArcher

    It's kind of late but I've written a blog post on this. It's in Russian but you can use Google Translate 

    https://danilzarubin.com/2019/11/12/garmin-express-linux/

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Danil Zarubin

    Similar instructions, but in English, are given here: www.christitus.com/.../

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    For those trying to get more current instructions, head over to winehq: appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php