Right to repair Forscan

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Anyone here know how to get bazzite to run Forscan. I have some older vehicles but recently went windows free, and would hate to not be able to use the purchased license for forscan.

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Jon, I don’t have any experience doing so but it seems like you’ll need to install Wine in Ubuntu and then install it that way.
Here’s what I found:
Install Wine and 32‑bit support
On Ubuntu, people used sudo apt install --install-recommends wine-stable rather than winehq-stable, which fixed install issues. On Fedora 37, FORScan worked with Wine 8, suggesting any reasonably recent Wine from Fedora’s repos or WineHQ should be fine. On Bazzite, they can follow Fedora Wine docs, ensuring both 64‑bit and 32‑bit Wine are enabled.

  1. Install FORScan into Wine
    Users on Ubuntu download the FORScan Windows installer (FORScanSetup...exe), then run it with Wine, typically something like wine FORScanSetup2.3.60.release.exe and accept defaults or choose a convenient directory under their home. This process is identical on Bazzite, just launched from a terminal or file manager.

  2. Fix permissions for the OBD adapter
    On Fedora, FORScan under Wine can access OBDLink EX once the Linux user is added to the dialout group for serial ports. Another user notes that if you do not want to run sudo wine FORScan.exe, adding the user to dialout is the proper fix. On Bazzite/Fedora, the same sudo usermod -a -G dialout <username> pattern should apply.

  3. Verify the adapter and COM port mapping
    Existing reports show FORScan under Wine detects OBDLink EX natively, but you must switch connection type in FORScan from default to COM port and select the right COM mapping. A more advanced Docker‑based wrapper for FORScan on Linux emphasizes that the OBD adapter should appear under /dev/ttyUSB0 or similar and that you can override the device path if needed.

  4. Launch FORScan and test vehicle connection
    On Ubuntu, someone solved issues by running sudo wine FORScan.exe once, letting Wine build its environment, then connecting successfully. After dialing in permissions and connection type, FORScan behaves the same as on Windows according to Fedora users.