[Warty] Running Windows in Linux - Linz

[hagen]

Hi, Linz

I've read your problems with configuring wine.

For some dozens of programmes wine is working on an acceptable stability 
level. I don't know, if your programs are running, you just have to find 
it out...

I recommend wine and winetools.

Winetools helps with a number of scripts to configure the wine fake 
directory of "windooz", it installs also system software...you manage it 
comfortably using a GUI...

Informations are under:

        http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/

Use the actual winetools-version, but don't (!) use the actual wine 
version, try an older one from winter 2004.

It is a better option to install a wine-version, which is suggested by 
the winetools developers...

I'm personally running the 20041201-version.

Go to yahoo, enter "debian wine 20041201" to get a download mirror - I 
did not find the packages on official wine servers...

Put all packages in one local folder and run "dpkg -i  
/path/to/the/folder/*.deb

After it, install winetools with apt-get.

By the way, Winetools needs

xdialog                             and
gtk-smooth-themes         to be installed.


When installation is finished, you run winetools with <CTRL><F2>"wt2" or 
on the comand line.

Follow the GUI-instructions, except "installation of fonts": Don't use 
the download option offered by winetools.
It seems, that something goes wrong, perhaps  the download script points 
to a wrong,because older download position - I have no idea ;-). It's 
better to execute the fontname.exe-files from your windooz-partition 
using one mouse-click. This starts wine, and that's also working...

Installation of windooz-programs starts also with a click ... ;-)

Good luck!

Hope that helps...

Hagen