Speaking of wine... :-(

[Yogich]

On Thursday 01 February 2007 01:38, Bry Paula Melvin wrote:
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> Not that problem...but a lot of programs that USED to run for me in wine
> no longer do. The inverse of that is true also.
>
> For that very reason I moved to crossover prior to the release of
> version 6. I found that using the 5 plus the last 6beta (which can
> coexist easily with 5) covers almost everything I need.
>
> without digging into details of a program I don't have set up: It may be
> that the Mozilla substitue for direct X is installed in your version of
> wine. can't remember the exact name...I'm on a ppc at the moment.
>
> wine also is seldom current in an ubuntu repo it changes rather rapidly
> lately. You might try the latest version for ubuntu in the wine repos.
>
>  earlier versions of wine defaulted usually to win98  later versions
> default usually to win2k. changing the version in winecfg is often all
> that is needed.
>
> I would suggest trying your program in the trial version of Crossover.
> if it fails there consider using the older version 5 of crossover.
>
> Alternatively or if ALL of this fails. back up to the older version of
> wine. There is I think 20060725 version of wine in the repos for
> breezy.It still works in dapper. I only use the LTS. It MAY work in
> later versions too.
>
> I KNOW this works in dapper as I had a machine set up with it plus
> winetools for an app. I no longer do as that app runs in Crossover even
> better.
>
> There was a LOT added to wine recently that was largely a result of the
> development of googles picassa2 development.
>
> it is troublesome to have several versions of wine operating at the same
> time. however wine and crossover can coexist as long as you do not use
> winetools. Winetools adds stuff to /home/username/bin that can conflict
> with what crossover puts there. Winetools also only marginally works
> with recent wine version and is probably best left alone with them.
>
>
> That said Picassa2 which runs on it's own version of wine is also an
> excellent photo manager. Wine crossover and Picassa2 can coexist on the
> same machine
>
> If you can't find the 20060725 version of wine. and wish to try it I
> possibly could place it where you can get it I believe I still have it
> archived somewhere but as I had that installed back in breezy it is
> probably still in the repos.
>
> FWIW this is ALSO the last ubuntu version that WILL work with winetools
> adequately to be of use. ( for ie6 etc)
>
>
> Hope one of these bullet statement/ideas helps.

Acknowledged.  Thanks.  I will keep digging.
-- 
	...Yogich