Software that will allow me to run windows software on 8.10

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On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 03:47 -0400, Mark Pyles wrote:
> > Hi Steve:
> >   
> > Thank you for your help. Unfortunately my program would not install after installing Wine.

> >  I tried installing MS Visio Studio, but all I received was an error that read "Setup cannot

> >  continue because a required file is either corrupted or not available.

> >  Run setup again from the original source disc or download location.

> > I have tried installing twice from the orginal cd but each time I try I receive the same error message.

> >  Anyting I can do to get around that? Thanks.

You can try installing virtualbox.
There is a free and non free version, main difference is the non free
has better USB support
Once that is installed you will require a Windows XP CD, which you will
use to install a full XP installation that will run within virtualbox.

This will give you most of the functionality of running a regular XP
session, except you wont have 3D graphics acceleration, so no 3D gaming.

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

You can also add the virtualbox repo to your sources.list which will
allow for updates to virtualbox to be done via the update manager of
Ubuntu

There is also vmware that works similarly, but I personally prefer
Virtualbox.
You can also use Virtualbox for installing other Linux distributions, if
you don't have a Windows CD but want to see how virtualbox would work,
use your Ubutnu CD and install a virtual Ubuntu in Ubuntu. (This just
makes one big file and does not partition your HDD)

Good luck