How to install and run the mobile.de offline vehicle management tool on Linux?

The tool is called “”vehicleclient”, “dealertool” and “mobile.de Fahrzeugverwaltung”.

The install package you download is called “vehicleclient.exe”, size is 60 MB.
vehicleclient.exe fails to install via “wine vehicleclient.exe”, complaing that you need at least 600MB of space on your disk, while there is much more than this on both the home and root partition.

1. Therefore, install at Windows (probably in a VirtualBox virtual machine). Do not start the program after the installation – it does not hurt, but does not help either.
2. Then, copy all the files it installed into some c:Program Files subdir to a directory on your Linux machine, say, /opt/MobileVehicleClient/.
3. Go into that directory and first start the program (necessary only once) with:
   HOMEDRIVE=/home/<username> java -jar dealertool-updater.jar
4. After 1-2 minutes, the program will hang and use all CPU load. Close it, it does not hurt anymore now.
5. Then, here is how to start the program regularly. Go into your installation directory and call:
   HOMEDRIVE=/home/<username> java -jar dealertool.jar
   This will (on KDE 4.3) even create a task bar icon.

The version of Java used was 1.6:

• Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_13-b03)
• Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 11.3-b02, mixed mode, sharing)