The topic here prompts me to send something I composed a couple of weeks ago but did not get a chance to edit.  It's kinda long and tells of my wine experience with a simple educational game. *  *  *  * Sorry to be late getting back to you. Maybe someone out there might benefit from what I did. Seterra is a free geography game to help you learn basics of country and city names and the like.  It is simple, but pretty useful for kids and others.  I wanted to make this windows program work with edubuntu. Novice as I am it took a bit to figure out the package manager and download and install the wine after a search for it in the manager. Actually, the installation went quite smoothly and automatically.  I downloaded the seterra.exe file from <a href="http://download.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">download.com</a> and saved it into my user download folder. Clicking on the file, the wine took over and the familiar windows-style install screen opened and I followed the prompts to install the software. The biggest obstacle for me was to figure out what happened to the seterra program.  Where did it go?  There was no desktop shortcut and it did not appear in the list of programs. I poked around directories and folders until I ended up at my home directory where I selected the detailed view that shows hidden files.  After all the usual named files, there were a series of folders and files begining with a period as in dot (.) such and such. Yo!  Here is .wine!  Opened, it unfolds just like the c:\ in windows.  In fact, right here is a c: prompt!  (This fits my vision of windows - just a little subsection inside my Linux machine, but I digress.)  I went to the program folder and found a seterra folder.  I clicked on the seterra.exe file - and it was the working program!  Mission accomplished! Minor Problem:  I could not figure out a way to make a direct desktop shortcut to this program.  My work around was simply to copy the whole seterra folder onto the desktop where it could be easily opened and the program started.  This is not tidy, but it's easier to find this way. Footnote #1.  Some time later, I installed Taxcut software using wine in a similar manner to the above on a machine with Linux Mint. The process was automatic.  The program works great.  This time the installation process DID create a desktop icon automatically.  In windows I rebel when that happens, since I don't like to use my desktop that way.  But it made it easier to find and start this program. Footnote #2.  On yet another machine with Linux Mint I just upgraded to 7.04.  The upgrade process somehow unlinked the wine from recognizing an exe file.  I just right clicked and "open using. . ." and followed the necessary steps to locate wine.  This enabled wine to pick up on the program and install it in the expected fashion. So there you have it.  Thanks for your support. Lou <div>On 12/13/06, Lou Synnestvedt <<a href="mailto:lou.syn@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> lou.syn@gmail.com </a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Dear Responders, Thanks for the suggestion about wine.  If I manage to get it working, I will report back. Lou<div> <div>On 11/30/06, Daniel Hedblom <<a href="mailto:daniel.hedblom@solleftea.se" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">daniel.hedblom@solleftea.se</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi! Seterra works fine in Wine, atleast the more recent ones. I still really think we should all plea for the author to release the code for porting to Linux. On a side note, how do one properly share one wine installation amongst many users? I have tried but never gotten a solution that works smoothly. /daniel Daniel Hedblom Systemtekniker Sollefteå Kommun BSF 070-3837244 >>> Clay Berlo <<a href="mailto:clay.berlo@dsbn.edu.on.ca" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> clay.berlo@dsbn.edu.on.ca</a>> 06-11-30 18:43 >>> Although I generally don't like to recommend WINE, it is a solution for this particular application.  If you install WINE with settings to share one common installation directory, Seterra will work through the LTSP, apparently without issue. I note that this is free software, so perhaps it would be possible to persuade the author to release the source code (again), so it can be properly ported to Linux? ~Clay On Wed, 2006-29-11 at 13:57 -0500, Lou Synnestvedt wrote: > I would love to have a Seterra-like game to learn geography that is > easy to use for elementary school.  Any ideas that work with edubuntu? > Lou </blockquote></div> </div></blockquote></div> <div>On 5/20/07, <a href="mailto:edubuntu-users-request@lists.ubuntu.com">edubuntu-users-request@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <<a href="mailto:edubuntu-users-request@lists.ubuntu.com"> edubuntu-users-request@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Send edubuntu-users mailing list submissions to   . . . Today's Topics:    1. Using Wine (Bruce Anderson)    2. Re: Using Wine (Bryan Quigley) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 19:21:47 -0600 From: "Bruce Anderson" <<a href="mailto:bruce.germund@gmail.com">bruce.germund@gmail.com</a>> Subject: Using Wine To: edubuntu-users <<a href="mailto:edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com"> edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Message-ID:         <<a href="mailto:ef43a13c0705191821g1e8b01f0paeb1ca541cb9f837@mail.gmail.com">ef43a13c0705191821g1e8b01f0paeb1ca541cb9f837@mail.gmail.com</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hello How do I use Wine to install Windows games onto Edubuntu?  I can't find any help files that tell me what to do, and any internet instructions don't seem to work. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Check your applications in wine appdb for compatibility.http://appdb.winehq.org/ It really is hit or miss. What apps are you trying to install? On 5/19/07, Bruce Anderson <<a href="mailto:bruce.germund@gmail.com">bruce.germund@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > Hello > > How do I use Wine to install Windows games onto Edubuntu?  I can't find > any help files that tell me what to do, and any internet instructions don't > seem to work. > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > <a href="mailto:edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users</a> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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