How to setup wine(?) in breezy

[Chris Dawson]

I think that the Wine folks recommend using the sources and compiling
rather than using stuff from the repository.  If you don't know how
this works, just download the .tar.gz file, and then run

("..." is substituted for the real version numbers)

tar xzf wine...-tar.gz
cd wine...
./configure
make
sudo make install

This will install wine for you.  Once you've done that, run winecfg.

However, I tried to run iTunes 6.0 under Wine and was not successful. 
There was a wiki posting somewhere which indicated that you can do it,
but I had no success.  I then installed the CodeWeavers CrossOver
Office installation, and have been very impressed.  It runs Internet
Explorer (for testing!), Quicktime, iTunes 4.9, Windows Media Player,
and much more, and very well.  I'd highly recommend CX Office.

Chris

On 2/4/06, Hall Family <cogyfarm at grm.net> wrote:
>  Toby Kelsey wrote:
>  Hall Family wrote:
>
>
>  Hello, I've got a small program that I wrote in "just basic" that runs
> in windows. I was wondering if there is a way to run it in Linux, or
> possibly convert it to a linux native app? Its 2700 lines of code so I
> kinda freak at the thought of rewriting it. It doesn't use any windows
> API calls that I'm aware of. Would I install wine and then what? How
> do you install wine?
>
>  If you have the source, there are several BASIC-like interpreters for
> Ubuntu:
> bwbasic, gb and gambas. I don't know how compatible the languages are.
>
> You need to enable 'universe' in apt/Synaptic to install one of these or
> Wine.
> With Synaptic or apt-get installation should be straightforward. The Wine
> website (winehq.com) has some useful information if you go that route.
>
> BTW if you re-write it in Python, it will be much less than 2700 lines.
>
> Toby
>
>
>  but how close to basic is python?  I don't know python at all.  I'm willing
> to investigate another language because I still have one or two things that
> I'd like it to do that it doesn't.
>  Its a fairly simplistic program in that all it does is gather some data (
> 171 of which is checkboxes ) and then do some calculations based on that
> data and output it to a .csv file.
>  The rub comes in that I've written the program so that the whole thing is
> very fluid.  ALL of the variables that might possibly need to be changed or
> want to be changed are contained in an .ini file which is read upon startup.
>  >From that it learns what the labels are, the data set, etc.
>  The bulk of the code I'd hazard to say is the code that says what to do
> when one of these 171 checkboxes has been checked/unchecked.
>
>  Troy
>  I'll take a look at some of these programs.  Ideally I'd like it to be
> multi-platform.
>
>
>
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