I have had success installing programs using wine on RH 8.0.
NOTE: There is a trick to make it work.
First thing you have to do is add your logon to group "wine", then log out and log back in. You can now access "/usr/share/wine-c", which is what the default install of wine believes to be your "C:" drive.
Next put in the software CD and when it is mounted ; cd /mnt/cdrom
Next in the install folder, often the cd's root, run ; wine setup.exe
The software should install under "/usr/share/wine-c/Program Files" by default.
To run the software type :
wine "/usr/share/wine-c/Program Files/{programsfolder}/{program.exe}"
Where {programsfolder} = the folder the program is installed in under
"Program Files" and {program.exe} is the name of the executable program.
Example//
wine "/usr/share/wine-c/Program Files/Claris Corp/FileMaker Pro 4.0/FileMaker Pro.exe"
{All supposed to be on one line}
or
wine /usr/share/wine-c/Program\ Files/Claris\ Corp/FileMaker\ Pro\ 4.0/FileMaker\ Pro.exe
{All supposed to be on one line}
NOTE: Paths and commands with a " " space must have the " " escaped or double quotes must be around the path and command.
Guy
Dan Clowater wrote:
Well I know there is wine - but I have had no real luck getting anything to work well with it. Is there a way to run a virtual windows session - much like wabi was on Solaris, or Virtual PC on the mac? Perhaps I am a dufas and doing something wrong... so any suggestions would be groovetastic! ...where'd that come from? LOL Thanks
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