Re: a few dumb questions about wine

2011-12-29 Thread Роман Франчук
29.12.2011 18:43, Michael Fothergill пишет: Dear Folks, I tried using wine after a long time. I installed it using synaptic and nosed around to see what had happened. I am running squeeze amd64 on a newish amd64 novatech box. I noticed that under the system tools menu window a wine configu

Re: a few dumb questions about wine

2011-12-29 Thread Dean Hamstead
Hi Michael Wine is constantly rolling forward, with releases monthly and more. The do differentiate between 'stable' and 'development' releases - though in almost every case the 'development' release is what people are running. Unfortunately debian tends to stick with the 'stable' release, which i

Re: a few dumb questions about wine

2011-12-29 Thread Michael Fothergill
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Robert Goley wrote: > I have had the most luck with the PlayOnLinux wrapper for Wine. It > allows for running multiple Wine versions as some version seem to work > better for some programs. It also handles the installation of those extra > binary versions. It

Re: a few dumb questions about wine

2011-12-29 Thread Robert Goley
I have had the most luck with the PlayOnLinux wrapper for Wine.  It allows for running multiple Wine versions as some version seem to work better for some programs.  It also handles the installation of those extra binary versions.  It has a list of supported apps to ease

a few dumb questions about wine

2011-12-29 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Folks, I tried using wine after a long time. I installed it using synaptic and nosed around to see what had happened. I am running squeeze amd64 on a newish amd64 novatech box. I noticed that under the system tools menu window a wine configuration icon appeared. I clicked on it and I got