JP Vossen on 22 Mar 2009 13:18:39 -0700 |
I just learned about a great script called 'winetricks' that automates (and makes trivial) the otherwise tedious process of installing required MS DLLs. For example, neither the dynamic build of PasswordSafe 3.15 [1] nor The Regex Coach 0.9.2 (or 0.9.1) installer worked on my Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10 Linux under Wine out-of-the box. But after this they both work great. $ sudo aptitude install wine wget $ wget 'http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks' $ bash ./winetricks vcrun2005sp1 vcrun2008 $ wget -O regex-coach-0.9.2.exe 'http://weitz.de/files/regex-coach.exe' $ wine ./regex-coach-0.9.2.exe Notes: * regex-coach-0.9.2.exe is just the usual installer * I manually created a dir, unzipped PasswordSafe into it, and created the menu icon for it. * Do NOT install Wine directly from the web, use the package management system (usually RPM or APT/deb) built-in to your Linux distro and version. If you stray from that you will regret it sooner or later--probably sooner. Trust me. References: * http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks * http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/ * http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/ (Note http://www.passwordsafe.com/ is evil) Similar and also sounds interesting: http://wddb.wine-doors.org/node/3 Later, JP [1] PasswordSafe 3.15.1 and 3.16 are static and Just Worked See https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2429189&group_id=41019&atid=429579 ----------------------------|:::======|------------------------------- JP Vossen, CISSP |:::======| http://bashcookbook.com/ My Account, My Opinions |=========| http://www.jpsdomain.org/ ----------------------------|=========|------------------------------- "Microsoft Tax" = the additional hardware & yearly fees for the add-on software required to protect Windows from its own poorly designed and implemented self, while the overhead incidentally flattens Moore's Law. ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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