

Download a Python 3 installer from the Python website. Next, install Python 3 and pyOpenSSL under Wine. If you have an ACSM file (called “URLLink.acsm” or similar), rather than an EPUB, click File > Add to Library and open the ACSM file. Some posts online suggest that it is a better idea to download ADE version 2 or 3 as those versions apparently use a more easily removed form of DRM.įor the rest of the steps I’ll assume your WINEPREFIX is “$HOME/.wine32”.ĪDE should open automatically upon installing it if not, you should find it somewhere like “$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/Program Files/Adobe/Adobe Digital Edition 4.5”. I installed version 4.5.11, so that is what these instructions are tailored for.

Like rainbowgoblin, I came across this thread and wanted to post some updated instructions that worked for me when using Calibre v5.12 and version 7.1.0 of the DeDRM plugin (as earlier versions of DeDRM don’t work with Calibre v5).

This worked for me… if it doesn’t work for you I suggest running Calibre from the command line, you’ll be able to see the errors that DeDRM throws when it tries to decrypt your ADE activation key

Set the WINEPREFIX to whatever you used (in my case, you can see it was /home/username/.wine32… if you used /home/yourusername/.adewine then you should use this, it’s totally dependent on how you installed ADE!)
