Where's a good starting point for using Wine?

david nux at blueyonder.co.uk
Fri Jan 14 07:26:27 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 20:32 +0100, Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski wrote:
> On Thursday 13 of January 2005 20:05, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> 
> > So: where's a good place to start reading? 
> 
>  I was very ignorant when it came to use Wine. I just apt-get install wine 
> wine-setup, then, when I left root mode, I've simply run wine-setup. My 
> friend who is running Windows put a WinAMP installation and a Photoshop 
> trail. See here: http://www.opi.mnc.pl/winamp_on_linux.png it's a screenshot 
> of a WinAMP. Works flawless. I did a trick and installed Photoshop while 
> playing some MP3 with WinAMP.
> 
>  There's only one thing I failed to run. And this is what I miss badly. All 
> Macromedia software hangs after InstallationShield quits unpacking stage.
> 
> -- 
>  Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski, TPnets.com department of software
>  http://opi.pegasos.pl      
> 

Macromedia did say they were going to port flash to linux. Or was that
just the player?
...thinks... I have a cunning plan!
We subscribe Macromedia to the "this mailing list" thread.  When they
come back the following day, weeping, broken in will and mind, asking
what the price is...we say..."port all your products to Linux".
Problem solved.

;-)

David






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