[PLUG] Wine and winetricks

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

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
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