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Re: [PLUG] wine installation (newbee)
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On Wednesday 24 March 2004 12:11 am, McLinux wrote:
> If you need any more help on installing free feel to reply back, I had
> successfully installed wine and had run Ms-Excel 2000 and other such
> stuff, but don't be in surprise they don't run really well and you need
> to do lots of hacking if you wish to get them running.
Ditto on the advice regarding installing a compiler. gcc (I think it stands
for GNU C Compiler) is the most widely used and hence recommended for
compatibility. It is probably on your install CDs, but just wasn't
installed.
As someone new enough to remember being in your position, I remember the quest
for an office software replacement. At the time the options included
Applixware, Word Perfect 8 (native unix and free), Word Perfect 9/2000 (Corel
ported the entire suite -- not by writing native unix code, but by hacking
wine to make the windows ports run under linux), and StarOffice 5.2.
Applix was hard to come by so I never tried it. In hindsight that was lucky
as it seems to have all but disappeared. WordPerfect 8 was just the word
processor. Worked fine if you were a WordPerfect user already. I bought
WordPerfert 9. What a dog!! The version of wine broke every other wine app.
The proprietary font server never worked, so no font choices. And soon, they
stopped supporting it. I also *bought* a boxed set of StarOffice 5.2. It
was great. Native linux code (along with windows and solaris code on the
CD). Good MS Office compatibility. I stuck with it. Today it has evolved
into OpenOffice, and seems to be the leader in this type of software on
linux. It just keeps getting better.
Moral of the story. As much as your aim may be to run your win32 apps on
linux, you should first examine an open source Linux alternative. It will
run better, it will be free, it will be better supported (in terms of the way
you are using it i.e. just tell an intuit tech rep that you are running
quickbooks on wine/linux and see how much help you get), and most of all it
will be an open source product which is the reason you chose Linux in the
first place (isn't it?). I know the newbie urge is to seek w32/linux
compatibility, but resist the urge and embrace the whole open source package.
Just use wine for that verticle app or whatever that you absolutely need.
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