In Linux, no one can hear you Wine

[Christopher Chisholm]

Did someone just say they did something in Windows 3.1?!  Nah, it must 
have been my imagination ;-)

-chris


Bayard Coolidge wrote:
> What version of wine are you running? If it's the one that shipped 
> with SuSE 9.3, or even SuSE 10.0, it's waaaaayyyy out of date. Best 
> bet may be to visit the winehq website, look for the latest release 
> and check carefully for pre-compiled binaries. Often/usually, one of 
> the SuSE staffers makes an unofficial but usable RPM for the later 
> SuSE distros that installs quickly and easily.
>
> That said, once you get wine installed, you need to read up on it and 
> take careful note of what it can and cannot do currently. I finally 
> had to dig up a copy of W2K and throw it on a spare disk in order to 
> install the software for my Garmin IQue3600 PDA because the 
> installation system used by Garmin/Palm simply wouldn't work under 
> wine - kept barfing on the .msi files or somesuch. So, there are still 
> a lot of unfortunate gotcha's. I had similar problems with a 
> commercial program used to program handheld radio transcievers used in 
> the land-mobile and amateur markets - it could install on W! indows 
> 3.1, but NOT under wine.
>
> HTH,
>
> Bayard
>
> Brake for moose - it can save your life (NHF&GD)
>
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