File Installation

[Alan McKinnon]

On Friday 17 March 2006 14:35, Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 13:24 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Friday 17 March 2006 02:23, Josué Alcalde González wrote:
> > > Wine is a program which allow to run windows applications in
> > > linux. It is only a beta and it doesn't work for all
> > > applications. Sometimes, it needs hard work to make it work.
> > > You sholud check the wine site for more information
> > > http://www.winehq.com
> >
> > The original poster seems new to this new-fangled Linux thing, so
> > I'd recommend he also installs WineTools to make the process
> > easier. I don't have the URL handy but there's a link to it from
> > the download page at www.winehq.com
>
> lat time I checked WineTools wasn't compatible with the wine 0.x
> series. 

It's hard to imagine how that would happen. WineTools makes a 
perfectly normal fake C: drive, adds a bunch of symlinks to make your 
life easier and fills the "registry" with a bunch of pre-defined 
settings that are supposed to work. There's nothing in there to cause 
it to not work with any version of Wine itself.

> I'd love to hear of a tool that is, Franks Corner has lots 
> of good guides for getting things running though.

Winetools is still your best bet for newbies. Getting almost anything 
to run properly is mostly a cross-fingers-try-it-and-see affair, half 
voodoo, half black magic and the other half plain luck. The truth is 
that wine isn't ready for release yet

> Do the guys over at Cedega contribute code to wine? If not then I'd
> recommend seeing if Crossover Office from codeweaver can run the
> apps concerned - they give code back to wine. Help CrossOver = help
> wine.

Ah yes, my bad. Cedega (previously WineX) couldn't contribute back to 
wine for license reasons. I believe wine is a fork of the original 
project which became WineX and it's license is incompatible with 
LGPL.

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Alan McKinnon
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