[CLUE-Tech] Anyone Running Wine?

[Jef Barnhart]

You have actually ran into one of biggest gripes about wine.

The have done a great job in running apps. They will run work ok. The
install... well... That is a matter completely different. Most programs
will not install. What they end up doing is installing on 95/98/ME,
NT/2K/XP. Then the run what was installed.

The installer will sometimes work for an app. That is a big maybe. I
have updated wine to only have the install fail. 

Jef

On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 14:43, Jed S. Baer wrote:
> Hi Folks.
> 
> I decided to see if I could get Wine working. Not the Crossover or WineX
> versions -- just plain old Wine. So I grabbed an RPM from rpmseek for RH
> 8.0 (the 20020605 version). It installed just fine. As a quickie
> smoke-test, I fired up notepad. Other than waaaay too many "fixme" errors
> about font metrics (no surprise, I guess), it ran.
> 
> But it won't successfully install any software, AFAICT. I tried:
> 
>  + Corel PhotoPaint7
>  + Word97
>  + Eudora 5.2.1
>  + Pegasus 4.2
> 
> Varying errors and problems; mostly missing DLLs.
> 
> The Pegasus install failed on trying to read files from the "E:" drive.
> Since the CDROM is mapped as D:, and E: points to /tmp, I dunno what it,
> or Wine, was thinking there.
> 
> The Corel install was strange, in that the component selection "tree"
> widget would resond to mouse clicks only for expand/contract of tree
> elements, and highlighting. It would not respond to mouse clicks to
> [de]select components. There were also some mapping problems, where one
> widget would overlay a portion of some other widget.
> 
> The Eudora install actually triggered an exception, bringing up the
> WindeDBG window. But it wouldn't accept keyboard focus.
> 
> So, I'm curious if anyone is successfully using the vanilla Wine for
> anything?
> 
> jed
> -- 
> ... it is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday
> facilitate a police state. -- Bruce Schneier
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