[Clug-tech] Help with wine

[Dan Mueller]

Good morning all.

 I got as far as installing my power producer cd just as I would on a
windows system. Went through all the screens and all went in as it should (
under wine 1.0 ) I have the icon on my desktop... I click it and nothing.
Now keep in mind that it is a video program like you where saying that might
not work. I have another hard drive where I have ubuntu 7. something on with
virtual box running win 2000. I don't have the power producer installed
there yet because I cant seem to get better than 800x600 res and 16 colors.
I know that the res wont go higher than what im using on the ubuntu screen
but I have a lot higher on the ubuntu than on windows. Am I doing something
wrong??  I like the idea of using wine because I think its less bloaty than
the virtual box but if it doesn't work......who cares.

 Now just to entertain your other suggestion on the ubuntustudio, I don't
know anything about this one and hav'nt tried too look at it yet on the net.
Do you think that I can put all my home digital pix and avi files into a
nice dvd with some music or narration in the background and different screen
changes between one pix to the next?? Not sure if its me but the linus
community has done an awesome job on everything but seems a little light on
the video type of stuff. Am I off or are there some great programs that I am
missing?? Maybe im looking in the wrong spot. I will today look into the
ubuntustudio and probably download an iso and possibly load it onto another
hdd. I want so desperately to get off of win-blows but just have this one
hurtle yet to cross.

Dan


-----Original Message-----
From: clug-tech-bounces at clug.ca [mailto:clug-tech-bounces at clug.ca] On Behalf
Of Mark Carlson
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 12:32 PM
To: CLUG Tech
Subject: Re: [Clug-tech] Help with wine

On 10/1/08, Dan Mueller <danm at reliable-tube.com> wrote:
> Hello, Just a quick question of what to do to get wine working.
>
> I have kubuntu on my pc with a 17 g root directory and a 1.3 g swap.
Nothing
> else. I installed the kubuntu on it, than wine. I want to load cyberlink
> power producer on it do I can edit and make some of my home digital pix
and
> avi files into home dvd's  I don't know what to do with the installation
> process with wine. Any help would be appreciated.

How far did you get?  Not all applications work under WINE, and many
only partially work (i.e. the installer may start up, but you can't
get past one step or another.)

I've only installed one application under WINE, firefox 3.  Here are
the steps I took:
http://marc.info/?l=freebsd-hackers&m=121433652224339&w=2

Summary:
# wine "Firefox Setup 3.0.exe"
I just used the defaults during the installation.  When I run the
application, I use:
# wine "C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/firefox.exe"

-Mark C.

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