wine

[Paul Huxley]

If you have a copy of whatever OS PPP runs on, have you considered using
VMWare Server to run your alternate OS within Linux? That way you don't have
to bother with dual booting at least...

P


On 8/23/06, John Dangler <jdangler at atlantic.net> wrote:
>
> Not totally an Ubuntu topic, but i'm a bit stumped as far as getting
> programs to work under wine.  The googling and reading up on winehq
> helped me get wine installed, and short list of packages listed that run
> out of the box is fine, but I'm having a real time of getting anything
> else to cooperate.
>
> For example, I installed Punch! Pro Platinum to do some floor planning
> (qcad docs are too light, and no one seems to know how to get started
> with it).  Opening the program, I get a few OpenGL errors which don't
> seem to effect the running of the app much, but every cursor movement
> brings up a dialog telling me that the undo state can't be set, and that
> the hard drive is full.  Then, if I move the window the drawing is in,
> the entire layout will disappear, leaving the four outside dimensions on
> the screen and nothing else.  The only way to 'refresh' this is to kill
> the app and restart it.
>
> Is there a way to debug these kinds of problems in wine?  Do I need to
> compile wine from source?
>
> Any input is appreciated.  I moved to Linux because I'm really
> comfortable in this environment, having had a long background in the
> Unix world, but I need these apps to work, and I'm a bit of a purist
> which keeps me from having to setup the desktop as a dual-boot.
>
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