For many of the things that you may / may not need, winetricks helps.... See http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks for instructions on getting winetricks and on how to use it. It might be a good idea to play in a different WINEPREFIX. To do that simply prepend all wine and winetricks commands with your alternaticve WINEPREFIX. e.g. WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-deplhi-apps wine somecommand.exe It is probably a better to try the applications on a clean wine first. (And if not done already report bugs for issues). Try to use the minimum amount of tweaking necessary to get the apps to run. The runtimes (mfc / vcrun, vb runtime, etc. might be the only tweaks really neccesary for many apps) On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 8:53 AM, R. S. Patil <kpr.rspatil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Well Then What to use Instead, > > A "howto" for running delphi programs under wine > mentions to install following > > 1> Base Setup (Notes As Follows) > Select the option Create a fake Windows drive and confirm, > answer YES to the question Remove existing Wine configuration?. > Click the OK button to confirm the path of the CD ROM in /etc/fstab > (or change it, if this isn't correct) and to answer the questions What's > your username? and What's your organization? you can fill in some > information, like, user and home (if necessary the information can be > changed in the file /~wine/system.reg). Wait for the confirmation Fake > Windows drive created in ~/.wine. Click in the OK button again and > wait for the Base Setup menu of WineTools. > > The last procedure has created our Fake, with certain changes created > when Wine is started. These changes may be altered using WineCfg and > regedit. Some changes may be, for example, certain file entries in ~/.wine > /*.reg and some files in the directory ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32. > Our Fake is (or should be!) prepared to be a Windows 98, the best to > run our applications." > > 2> DCOM98. > Try applications without it first. If you really need to install it: winetricks dcom98 > 3> Microsoft foundation Classes 4.x > The Visual C++ runtime includes MFC 4.2: winetricks vcrun60 else: winetricks mfc40 winetricks mfc42 > 4> Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 > Which will install almost all components of IE6 and Media Player 6.4 > In most cases it is not necessary to install (on a recent wine)... You might first try: winetricks fakeie6 If you really need to install IE 6: http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=469 or http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page > 5> Windows Installer > Most MSI installers work out of the box with a recent Wine. http://wiki.winehq.org/msiexec provides some details on how to use it. If you really need to install MSI 2.0: winetricks msi2 > 6> Visual Basic 6 Runtime > winetricks vb6run > 7> Visual C++ run-time English > (6 is described with MFC, I'm not sure if 2005sp1 installs 2005 SP1 or updates 2005 to SP1....) winetricks vcrun2003 winetricks vcrun2005 winetricks vcrun2008 > 8> MDAC 2.8 and Jet 4.0 SP8 English > winetricks mdac28 winetricks jet40 > 9> Microsoft TrueType core fonts (Notes as Follows) > Now let's install the Microsoft TrueType core fonts. Go to the WineTools > Base Setup menu, select the option True Type Font Arial, click OK, > wait for the download to complete, accept the license terms and finish > the installation of this font family. After this, select the > option Install > Microsoft TrueType core fonts the third option in the WineTools > Main Menu and proceed with the installation of all available fonts > in the same way. > wintricks corefonts OR winetricks allfonts
