Hey everyone,
I managed to get Rhino 7 installed on Linux Mint by using Claude to write a script that followed Cryinkfly’s excellent tutorial video.
It wasn’t a completely smooth process so there is some additional stuff that’s been integrated to hopefully make it easier for you all.
My system:
AMD GPU + CPU, Linux Mint
Script attached. Just rename it’s extension to .sh and set it to be runnable. Had to change it to .txt for the forum to accept the upload.
It checks for and installs what you need (wine, winetricks, winbind, lutris), creates a dedicated 64-bit Wine prefix, installs the dependencies in the right order, then hands the actual install to Lutris — the Rhino installer just blank-windows under bare Wine, but Lutris handles McNeel’s bootstrapper fine. Run the script again afterward and it writes a rhino7 launcher.
The big one, if you’re debugging your own setup: you need winbind installed. Without it Rhino shows the registration window but the main window never appears — it hangs silently on the license check. That single package was the whole difference between “broken” and “works” for me.
Two smaller gotchas the script handles for you: install .NET before switching the prefix to Windows 10 (the .NET install quietly resets the Windows version, which then trips the bogus “requires 64-bit Windows 8.1” error), and launch Rhino with system Wine rather than wine-ge — wine-ge crashed for me with a bad_alloc while plain Wine ran it fine.
The script will handle all of this for you.
Usage: drop the Rhino installer in ~/Downloads, run the script, run the one Lutris command it prints, then run the script once more to finish.
Hope it helps!
install-rhino7-linux.txt (13.8 KB)