How to setup wine(?) in breezy

[Toby Kelsey]

Hall Family wrote:
> Hello, I've got a small program that I wrote in "just basic" that runs
> in windows.  I was wondering if there is a way to run it in Linux, or
> possibly convert it to a linux native app?  Its 2700 lines of code so I
> kinda freak at the thought of rewriting it.  It doesn't use any windows
> API calls that I'm aware of.  Would I install wine and then what?  How
> do you install wine?

If you have the source, there are several BASIC-like interpreters for Ubuntu:
bwbasic, gb and gambas. I don't know how compatible the languages are.

You need to enable 'universe' in apt/Synaptic to install one of these or Wine.
With Synaptic or apt-get installation should be straightforward.  The Wine
website (winehq.com) has some useful information if you go that route.

BTW if you re-write it in Python, it will be much less than 2700 lines.

Toby