Wine and wine tools in Dapper

[Karl Auer]

On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 16:09 +0100, Paco Ros wrote:
> > Why don't you download the free VMware server and install
> > a minimal widows VM?  Save yourself the grief of dealing
> > with something that is reportedly busted.

Well, I'd have a problem with buying an MS product. IE is free, Windows
isn't, and you need Windows to run IE under VMWare. Also, starting an
entire operating system just for one application seems a little over the
top, like building a house to go to the toilet :-)

I checked ies4linux and it worked very well under breezy, which kinda
suggests that dapper is at fault rather than ies4linux, but who knows.
Have you reported the problems to the maintainer?

I saw all sorts of strangeness, but it turned out to be because:

- I installed as me (not root), but asked for shortcuts
in /usr/local/bin, which of course couldn't be created.

- so I reinstalled as root, and got all kinds of grief running IE as me,
because now $HOME/.ies4linux was owned by root and I couldn't write in
it!

- so I edited the config to put the shortcuts in $HOME/bin and
reinstalled as me, and now everything works fine.

I think the "product" needs a little tuning in the permissions
department (or maybe the docs department :-), but it does work fine on
breezy.

Regards, K.

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