[PLUG] The Regex Coach 0.9.2 works on Linux under Wine

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

This came up last night at PLUG W briefly, and I just noticed that this 
never made it into the "The Regex Coach" ML archive, so cross-posting.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: The Regex Coach 0.9.2 works on Linux under Wine
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:41:09 -0400
From: JP Vossen
To: General purpose mailing list for "The Regex Coach" 
<regex-coach@common-lisp.net>

FYI, The Regex Coach 0.9.2 (and 0.9.1) works just fine on my Ubuntu 8.04
and 8.10 Linux under Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator).

HOWTO:

Type (or copy & paste) these commands in a terminal window.  Note the
'$' represents the (non-root) user prompt.

$ 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 TRC installer
* You will find the tool in the Applications, Wine, Programs, The Regex
Coach menu.
* 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software)
http://www.winehq.org/
http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks


Hope this is useful,
JP
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