Re: Software installasion (Was: Re: Wine without X)

2009-03-29 Thread User Wblock
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Barnaby Scott wrote: Thanks for all the ideas about where to download/install custom apps - the one that appeals most at this stage is a jail, partly because I have never played with them, and I think I should progress my learning in that direction. However I find the other a

Re: Software installasion (Was: Re: Wine without X)

2009-03-29 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On March 29, 2009 11:03:03 AM -0500 Barnaby Scott wrote: Many thanks to all who have helped on this one. I managed to get wine installed without X and it works :) However my application doesn't :( Most of the errors are concerned with MS Visual C++ libraries, which I have unconfirmed indica

Re: Software installasion (Was: Re: Wine without X)

2009-03-29 Thread Barnaby Scott
Mel Flynn wrote: On Saturday 28 March 2009 13:06:44 Robert Huff wrote: Mel Flynn writes: > Can I ask one more possibly really dumb question, to which I > can find no answer: Is there a 'conventional', or sensible > for one reason oranother, place to download application source to? Most s

Re: Wine without X

2009-03-28 Thread Chris Rees
2009/3/28 Robert Huff : > > Mel Flynn writes: > >>  > Can I ask one more possibly really dumb question, to which I >>  >  can find no answer: Is there a 'conventional', or sensible >>  >  for one reason oranother, place to download application source to? >> >>  Most systems I use or inherited use a

Software installasion (Was: Re: Wine without X)

2009-03-28 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 28 March 2009 13:06:44 Robert Huff wrote: > Mel Flynn writes: > > > Can I ask one more possibly really dumb question, to which I > > > can find no answer: Is there a 'conventional', or sensible > > > for one reason oranother, place to download application source to? > > > > Most s

Re: Wine without X

2009-03-28 Thread Robert Huff
Mel Flynn writes: > > Can I ask one more possibly really dumb question, to which I > > can find no answer: Is there a 'conventional', or sensible > > for one reason oranother, place to download application source to? > > Most systems I use or inherited use a variation of ~/src ~/cvs or >

Re: Wine without X

2009-03-28 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 27 March 2009 15:42:27 Barnaby Scott wrote: > Can I ask one more possibly really dumb question, to which I can find no > answer: Is there a 'conventional', or sensible for one reason or > another, place to download application source to? Most systems I use or inherited use a variation o

Re: Wine without X

2009-03-27 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, March 27, 2009 09:42:27 -0500 Barnaby Scott wrote: Can I ask one more possibly really dumb question, to which I can find no answer: Is there a 'conventional', or sensible for one reason or another, place to download application source to? Presumably you don't want it mixed up in

Re: Wine without X

2009-03-27 Thread Andrew Wright
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Barnaby Scott wrote: Can I ask one more possibly really dumb question, to which I can find no answer: Is there a 'conventional', or sensible for one reason or another, place to download application source to? Presumably you don't want it mixed Not dumb at all. There are

Re: Wine without X

2009-03-27 Thread Barnaby Scott
rendering binary to run is an exercise for you. :-) I left wine without x installed on my system. If you have questions, I *may* be able to help. Can I ask one more possibly really dumb question, to which I can find no answer: Is there a 'conventional', or sensible for one

Re: Wine without X

2009-03-26 Thread Jeff Laine
ent, whose > controller is inextricably Windows-based... you get the picture!) > > In answer to the other replies (thanks to you guys too): > > Yes, wine is fine with just the command prompt. It is somewhat confusing > in that it offers a thing called wineconsole, but ironically

Re: Wine without X

2009-03-26 Thread Barnaby Scott
fusing in that it offers a thing called wineconsole, but ironically that *does* appear to require X. Just using wine without X is fine, so long as the app does not attempt to open any sort of window, system tray etc. As for the 'cluttering' - I'm not so worried about disk space, that'

Re: Wine without X

2009-03-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
equires Windows libraries or the kernel, but does not use the gui. that's possible. anyway - if you can't build wine without X, built it with X, it will only install X libraries nothing else and it will work when command line utils will be used.

Re: Wine without X

2009-03-26 Thread Paul Schmehl
endering work to keep them from getting bored, but I don't want X cluttering them up.) Any help gratefully received Number 1, you should always google first. There's a wealth of posts on the web about running wine without X. Note that, at present, the wine port will not work. (The

Re: Wine without X

2009-03-26 Thread Barnaby Scott
our CNC equipment, whose controller is inextricably Windows-based... you get the picture!) In answer to the other replies (thanks to you guys too): Yes, wine is fine with just the command prompt. It is somewhat confusing in that it offers a thing called wineconsole, but ironically that *does* appear to

Re: Wine without X

2009-03-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
no response. I want to install wine, but without X on the system. Obviously trying to do what you want to do with wine not having X? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubsc

Re: Wine without X

2009-03-26 Thread Chris Rees
2009/3/26 Robert Huff : > > Bill Moran writes: > >>  > I want to install wine, but without X on the system. >> >>  Why would you expect this to be possible?  The GUI is an integral >>  part of MS Windows ... I can't imagine how wine would work at all >>  without X installed -- which is probably why

Re: Wine without X

2009-03-26 Thread Robert Huff
Bill Moran writes: > > I want to install wine, but without X on the system. > > Why would you expect this to be possible? The GUI is an integral > part of MS Windows ... I can't imagine how wine would work at all > without X installed -- which is probably why you're not getting > any answ

Re: Wine without X

2009-03-26 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Barnaby Scott : > I'm sorry if I'm asking in the wrong place, but I have tried elsewhere > and go no response. > > I want to install wine, but without X on the system. Why would you expect this to be possible? The GUI is an integral part of MS Windows ... I can't imagine how win

Wine without X

2009-03-26 Thread Barnaby Scott
I'm sorry if I'm asking in the wrong place, but I have tried elsewhere and go no response. I want to install wine, but without X on the system. Obviously trying to do this from ports drags in loads of X-related stuff. There doesn't seem to be a WITHOUT_X11 knob available for the wine port (pre