DeLorme GPS

[Chris]

But theres no way to say, run the installer through Wine to install it into
linux?

I'd heard something like that, but being new as anything, I'd never tried.



On 2/19/07, grumpypenguin <grumpypenguin at qwest.net> wrote:
>
> On Monday 19 February 2007 11:47, Chris wrote:
> > Heya All,
> >
> > My boss is thinking of installing Kubuntu on his laptop (hooray for my
> > second conversion) but he is
> >  wondering how he could go about using his DeLorme GPS device with it.
> He
> > is a big fan of the
> > DeLorme repos, in that they are a very detailed map repository. I have
> seen
> > a couple ways to use
> > the actual GPS device with different linux programs, but I was wondering
> if
> > it is possible to get the
> > actual DeLorme software installed, say with Wine? I have used Wine to
> run
> > programs from my
> > Windows partition before, but never in this fashion. I've heard of it
> being
> > done before, but I would
> > need a little assistance.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> Delorme uses  very windows specific software and they are NOT intrested in
> supporting Linux [from talking to their tech support]
> >
> > Chris
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