[newbie] Re: [Wine]To su or not to su

2005-04-05 Thread Robert Yu
h:\ maps to your home drive. Or, mine does. I used winetools-2.1.0-jo to set up wine. See what else is in ~/.wine/dosdevices. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing

Re: [newbie] Missing file using Wine

2005-03-24 Thread RickSisler
Cameron MacDonald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 23 March 2005 08:18 pm, Cameron MacDonald wrote: I'm trying to use a text/graphics database program for automotive waveforms called Aeswave. Since it is for Windows I'm using Wine to run it. I had no trouble

[newbie] Missing file using Wine

2005-03-23 Thread Cameron MacDonald
I'm trying to use a text/graphics database program for automotive waveforms called Aeswave. Since it is for Windows I'm using Wine to run it. I had no trouble installing it (Thank you , Wine!), but when I run Aeswave, it tells me I'm missing ddeml.dll. I found a ddeml.dll.so in /usr/lib/wine

Re: [newbie] Missing file using Wine

2005-03-23 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 08:18 pm, Cameron MacDonald wrote: I'm trying to use a text/graphics database program for automotive waveforms called Aeswave. Since it is for Windows I'm using Wine to run it. I had no trouble installing it (Thank you , Wine!), but when I run Aeswave, it tells me

Re: [newbie] Missing file using Wine

2005-03-23 Thread Cameron MacDonald
Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 23 March 2005 08:18 pm, Cameron MacDonald wrote: I'm trying to use a text/graphics database program for automotive waveforms called Aeswave. Since it is for Windows I'm using Wine to run it. I had no trouble installing it (Thank you , Wine!), but when I run Aeswave

Re: [newbie] Wine

2005-03-21 Thread SigmaX
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[newbie] Wine

2005-03-20 Thread Robert Yu
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[newbie] Linux, Wine and viruses

2005-01-27 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Here's an amusing article: http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/25/1430222 Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-03 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 Jan 2005 05:29, deedee E wrote: On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 13:43:43 +, Anne Wilson wrote: I hope they don't do this -- at least not using VBS. If they can convert the VBS to something else, that might work. MS groupies make a big deal out

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-03 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 Jan 2005 00:31, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 02 January 2005 03:43 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Only a matter of time, Dark Lord. Mothers-in-law are big on practicalities ;-) Anne Hmm. Practicalities...like domesticating

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-03 Thread deedee E
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:17:04 +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 03 Jan 2005 05:29, deedee E wrote: On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 13:43:43 +, Anne Wilson wrote: Windows systems for security reasons. These days VBS is about the only reason anyone can give for keeping MSWord. OOo Writer does

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-03 Thread SnapafunFrank
deedee E wrote: On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:17:04 +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 03 Jan 2005 05:29, deedee E wrote: On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 13:43:43 +, Anne Wilson wrote: Windows systems for security reasons. These days VBS is about the only reason anyone can give for keeping MSWord. OOo

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-02 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 27 Dec 2004 07:22, deedee E wrote: I think you will find that OO Writer is a lot more stable than MSWord and has as many features (all of which convert very nicely to MSWord, even though MSWord converts in an iffy manner to other

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-02 Thread Martin Hardie
On Sunday 2 January 2005 14:43, Anne Wilson wrote: When my sin-in-law Anne I hope this was a freudian mother in laws slip! :-) Martin a son in law himself -- the riddle which man

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-02 Thread JR
On Sunday 02 January 2005 08:43 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 27 Dec 2004 07:22, deedee E wrote: I think you will find that OO Writer is a lot more stable than MSWord and has as many features (all of which convert very nicely to MSWord, even though MSWord converts in an iffy manner to

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-02 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 13:45, Martin Hardie wrote: On Sunday 2 January 2005 14:43, Anne Wilson wrote: When my sin-in-law Anne I hope this was a freudian mother in laws slip! :-) Oops... - well. Martin a son in law himself Actually, we get

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-02 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 18:47, JR wrote: I wish my mother in law used linux :) Can't you find the one thing that she would *really* love to have, then let her 'accidentally' see it? A little gentle deceit is not really harmful. ;-) Just be sure

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-02 Thread Aron Smith
On Sunday 02 January 2005 07:07 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 18:47, JR wrote: I wish my mother in law used linux :) Can't you find the one thing that she would *really* love to have, then let her 'accidentally' see it? A little gentle deceit is not really harmful. ;-)

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-02 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 02 January 2005 10:07 am, Anne Wilson wrote: snip My husband has his own Mandrake box, but rarely adventures beyond the kde patience pack, which knocks the socks off the M$ offerings. There are some pretty good photo-handling packages these days. It's hard to find something that

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-02 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 16:11, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Sunday 02 January 2005 10:07 am, Anne Wilson wrote: snip My husband has his own Mandrake box, but rarely adventures beyond the kde patience pack, which knocks the socks off the M$

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-02 Thread JR
On Sunday 02 January 2005 10:07 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 18:47, JR wrote: I wish my mother in law used linux :) Can't you find the one thing that she would *really* love to have, then let her 'accidentally' see it? A little gentle deceit is not really harmful. ;-)

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 02 January 2005 01:47 pm, JR wrote: I wish my mother in law used linux :) I wish *all* mother-in-laws used Linux. Wouldn't that be a force to reckon with! :-) --

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-02 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 20:11, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 02 January 2005 01:47 pm, JR wrote: I wish my mother in law used linux :) I wish *all* mother-in-laws used Linux. Wouldn't that be a force to reckon with! :-) Only a matter of time,

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-02 Thread John Layt
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 02:07, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 18:47, JR wrote: I wish my mother in law used linux :) Can't you find the one thing that she would *really* love to have, then let her 'accidentally' see it? A little gentle deceit is not really harmful. ;-) For most

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 02 January 2005 03:43 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Only a matter of time, Dark Lord. Mothers-in-law are big on practicalities ;-) Anne Hmm. Practicalities...like domesticating son-in-laws? big grin --

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-02 Thread deedee E
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 13:43:43 +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 27 Dec 2004 07:22, deedee E wrote: I think you will find that OO Writer is a lot more stable than MSWord and has as many features (all of which convert very nicely to MSWord, even though MSWord converts in an iffy manner to

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-02 Thread Noel McG.
- Original Message - From: Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 12:31 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there? On Sunday 02 January 2005 03:43 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Only a matter of time, Dark Lord. Mothers

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-31 Thread deedee E
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 08:04:23 +0100, Martin wrote: a first question on Wine - do i just install the windows programs i want into a folder in eg my home directory and then when starting wine in my shell point it there? If you're using the fake Windows installation, just install your

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-28 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Deedee wrote: I think you will find that OO Writer is a lot more stable than MSWord and has as many features (all of which convert very nicely to MSWord, even though MSWord converts in an iffy manner to other things). The only real issue concerns VBS -- OO cannot convert it. If you need VBS,

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-28 Thread Al Yaemes
- Original Message - From: Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 11:33 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there? Deedee wrote: I think you will find that OO Writer is a lot more stable than MSWord and has

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-27 Thread deedee E
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 22:51:04 +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 18:52, deedee E wrote: Wine is fully capable of executing Win32 viruses, Trojans, and worms. Don't run Wine as root after it is installed. Then, you won't hurt the overall Linux system, although you will still

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-27 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 27 Dec 2004 07:08, deedee E wrote: On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 22:51:04 +, Anne Wilson wrote: Simply having Wine available on your system is not a problem. I use XWine to run Windows applications and cannot start Wine by clicking on a link

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-27 Thread deedee E
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 18:59:03 -0500, JoeHill wrote: IIANM, Windows malware (is there any other kind...?), even run under Wine, would have very little if no effect on a Linux system. Firstly, it's going to be looking for files/folders/directories that do not exist (c:Windows, System32

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-27 Thread deedee E
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 20:31:53 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: However, now I'm quite oriented to avoid Wine installation if possible, i.e. if OO Writer can really work fine onto .doc files, especially now that you pointed out the problem of viruses. And apart from that, I don't much like the idea

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-27 Thread SnapafunFrank
deedee E wrote: On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 20:31:53 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: However, now I'm quite oriented to avoid Wine installation if possible, i.e. if OO Writer can really work fine onto .doc files, especially now that you pointed out the problem of viruses. And apart from that, I don't much

[newbie] WIne with games

2004-12-27 Thread neo
cane someone tell me how to install wine because i want to load a game on here thank you -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] WIne with games

2004-12-27 Thread RickSisler
neo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: cane someone tell me how to install wine because i want to load a game on here thank you -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would recommend going to the homepage for wine http://www.winehq.org/ and reading the documentation http://www.winehq.org/site/documentation

[newbie] Re: Quickbooks on wine

2004-12-26 Thread John Zoetebier
JR wrote: Has anyone tried Quickbooks on wine or crossover? It's the only thing stopping my mates buisness from switching. Theres noting on the web about it. I know it would probably install fine, but I really want to know if it will 'work'. I dont know enough about the package to test

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-26 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 23:24, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Anne, It is mainly vulnerable when running windows programs. It should be possible to create something that runs under Linux that would target Wine, I don't see that happening

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-26 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 23:59, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 22:51:04 + Anne Wilson disseminated the following: Wine is fully capable of executing Win32 viruses, Trojans, and worms. Don't run Wine as root after it is installed

Re: [newbie] Re: Quickbooks on wine

2004-12-26 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 26 Dec 2004 05:47, John Zoetebier wrote: JR wrote: Has anyone tried Quickbooks on wine or crossover? It's the only thing stopping my mates buisness from switching. Theres noting on the web about it. I know it would probably install

Re: [newbie] Re: Quickbooks on wine

2004-12-26 Thread Edward Holcroft
Have you tried Cubit Accounting? It's a South African product that has accounting and payroll function and is GPL. See www.cubit.co.za. Google shows quite a few experiences with Quickbooks running under wine and Crossover Office. CXOffice 4 has native support for Quickbooks 2000, a status

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-26 Thread Martin
a first question on Wine - do i just install the windows programs i want into a folder in eg my home directory and then when starting wine in my shell point it there? I have been confused about this simple little point to start with!! will most programs using windows code work or only those

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 23:24, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Anne, It is mainly vulnerable when running windows programs. It should be possible to create something that runs under Linux that would target Wine, I don't see

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 23:59, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 22:51:04 + Anne Wilson disseminated the following: Wine is fully capable of executing Win32 viruses, Trojans, and worms. Don't run Wine as root after

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-26 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 26 Dec 2004 16:27, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: This is easy. Set the group ownership of the directory to wine, and set the SGID bit on the directory. I usualy do this in Midnight Commander (mc), and there is a check box for it. When

Re: [newbie] Re: Quickbooks on wine

2004-12-26 Thread JR
on wine or crossover? It's the only thing stopping my mates buisness from switching. Theres noting on the web about it. I know it would probably install fine, but I really want to know if it will 'work'. I dont know enough about the package to test it myself unfortunately. Happy holidays

[newbie] Quickbooks on wine

2004-12-25 Thread JR
Has anyone tried Quickbooks on wine or crossover? It's the only thing stopping my mates buisness from switching. Theres noting on the web about it. I know it would probably install fine, but I really want to know if it will 'work'. I dont know enough about the package to test it myself

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-25 Thread deedee E
A couple of things I forgot, but feel I should mention. Although one installs Wine as root and does some minimal global configuration, each user must do their own configuration. Windows software needs to be installed as user, not as root. If there is more than one user on the system

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-25 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Thanks to all who replied: Noel, SnapafunFrank, Mike, Deedee. The matter looks not to be a simple one, so I'll have to do further trials with Wine installation. But, Deedee, after I read you say: I've had excellent results working with MSWord documents on Linux systems with OpenOffice.org Writer

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-25 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 18:52, deedee E wrote: Wine is fully capable of executing Win32 viruses, Trojans, and worms. Don't run Wine as root after it is installed. Then, you won't hurt the overall Linux system, although you will still be able

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-25 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 18:52, deedee E wrote: Wine is fully capable of executing Win32 viruses, Trojans, and worms. Don't run Wine as root after it is installed. Then, you won't hurt the overall Linux system, although you

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-25 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 22:51:04 + Anne Wilson disseminated the following: Wine is fully capable of executing Win32 viruses, Trojans, and worms. Don't run Wine as root after it is installed. Then, you won't hurt the overall Linux system, although you will still be able to really mess up

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-25 Thread Noel McG.
- Original Message - From: Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Saturday, December 25, 2004 7:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there? However, now I'm quite oriented to avoid Wine installation if possible, i.e. if OO Writer can really

[newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi. Does anybody have any experience about Wine, how to install it and how to make it work? I've had problems with it, and the help I got from the wine-users mailing list didn't manage to solve them. I installed Wine in order to run MS Word with it, since *unfortunately* in job applications

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-24 Thread Noel McG.
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Friday, December 24, 2004 10:37 AM Subject: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there? Hi. Does anybody have any experience about Wine, how to install it and how to make it work? I've had problems

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-24 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo wrote: Does anybody have any experience about Wine, how to install it and how to make it work? I've had problems with it, and the help I got from the wine-users mailing list didn't manage to solve them. I installed Wine in order to run MS Word with it, since *unfortunately* in job

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-24 Thread SnapafunFrank
Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo wrote: Does anybody have any experience about Wine, how to install it and how to make it work? I've had problems with it, and the help I got from the wine-users mailing list didn't manage to solve them. I installed Wine in order to run MS Word with it, since

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-24 Thread mike
Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo wrote: Does anybody have any experience about Wine, how to install it and how to make it work? I've had problems with it, and the help I got from the wine-users mailing list didn't manage to solve them. I installed Wine in order to run MS Word with it, since

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-24 Thread deedee E
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 16:49:46 +1300, SnapafunFrank wrote: Rodolfo Medina wrote: Does anybody have any experience about Wine, how to install it and how to make it work? I'm not an expert because I've never really had any problems using wine. However, I did notice a couple of things in your

Re: [newbie] dvdshrink and wine

2004-09-01 Thread Vincent Voois
directory LC:\\windows\\system is not accessible. Warning: could not find DOS drive for current working directory '/home/evolt/Desktop', starting in the Windows directory. wine: cannot open (null) I do have winxp installed, and wine had previously been set up to use it. I looked for the wine.cfg

Re: [newbie] dvdshrink and wine

2004-08-31 Thread evolt
:\\windows\\system is not accessible. Warning: could not find DOS drive for current working directory '/home/evolt/Desktop', starting in the Windows directory. wine: cannot open (null) I do have winxp installed, and wine had previously been set up to use it. I looked for the wine.cfg in /etc/wine

[newbie] dvdshrink and wine

2004-08-24 Thread evolt
Having some troubles running dvdshrink under wine. Installed the latest wine rpm because I read changes had been made to make dvdshrink work better. Anyone have success running dvdshrink with wine and mdk 10? Joe Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] dvdshrink and wine

2004-08-24 Thread Vincent Voois
with DVDshrink does not work in Windows itself properly either if there is any other burn application installed like Nero. (It's Nero's DVDr driver that is getting in DVDShrink's way, this may count for other installed burn apps as well) evolt wrote: Having some troubles running dvdshrink under wine

[newbie] dvdshrink and wine

2004-08-16 Thread evolt
I am trying to run dvdshrink 3.2 under wine. Installed the latest mdk rpm for wine (20040813) since I was having some problems with it using the stock wine rpm for mdk 10 (could not open the disk, a bug which has reportedly been fixed). Now it seems to be even farther from working. I am going

Re: [newbie] Wine 20040213

2004-06-30 Thread Frank
requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Chuck Lutz wrote: Hi, I'm still getting up to speed with Wine, so I can't help with the first one, but I had this error too (static glibc req'd). I went to the Configuration Package Manager thing (I think that is what it is called

[newbie] wine-20040615-mdk1.i586.rpm

2004-06-30 Thread Wolfdreamer
Err hi. Ok, I'm new to this and Blond so things are taking a little getting use to. I've a few programs I wanted to run that as MS bases, sorry but I need them. (Sad really) so as per a what I read I run urpmi -wget wine and loand behold it installed wine for me. (Like that function

Re: [newbie] wine-20040615-mdk1.i586.rpm

2004-06-30 Thread roger . white-itnet
Try using rpm -Uvh wine-20040615- This should upgrade (the U part) the existing wine installation. If this fails urpm -e wine will remove the old one then you should be able to install the new one. Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To:Post: Linux

Re: [newbie] wine-20040615-mdk1.i586.rpm

2004-06-30 Thread frankieh
Wolfdreamer wrote: Err hi. Ok, I'm new to this and Blond so things are taking a little getting use to. I've a few programs I wanted to run that as MS bases, sorry but I need them. (Sad really) so as per a what I read I run urpmi -wget wine and loand behold it installed wine for me. (Like

Re: [newbie] wine-20040615-mdk1.i586.rpm

2004-06-30 Thread Wolfdreamer
Hi, Thank you for the help. Sorry I couldn't read the email form Mr. White to well, font to tiny. : Frankien, thank you. I got it uninstalled then installed I think it worked. It didn't spit any error's at me. how odd that feels, MS use to do that so often... nice not to have to deal

Re: [newbie] wine-20040615-mdk1.i586.rpm

2004-06-30 Thread Cezary Morga
Dnia pon 5. lipca 2004 01:38, Wolfdreamer napisa: rpm -vi wine-20040615-mdk1.i586.rpm Preparing packages for installation... file /usr/lib/wine/advapi32.dll.so from install of wine-20040615-mdk1 conflicts with file from package libwine1-20030115-4mdk [cut] This is what I got. can some one

Re: [newbie] wine-20040615-mdk1.i586.rpm

2004-06-30 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 04 July 2004 08:21 pm, Wolfdreamer wrote: Hi, Thank you for the help. Sorry I couldn't read the email form Mr. White to well, font to tiny. : snip Clyde, the not so confused. Clyde and Roger: Probably the reason that you have trouble reading Roger White's response is

[newbie] Wine 20040213

2004-06-29 Thread ibibhef
I need Wine to run a handful of programs. I installed the Wine 20040213 from urpmi and it went fine. I try to run wine c:\\windows\\notepad.exe and it says it can't find notepad.exe. I cd into the directory holding this file and it still can't find notepad.exe. I checked the .wine/config

Re: [newbie] Wine 20040213

2004-06-29 Thread Chuck Lutz
Hi, I'm still getting up to speed with Wine, so I can't help with the first one, but I had this error too (static glibc req'd). I went to the Configuration Package Manager thing (I think that is what it is called) and chose Install software. From there I typed glibc in the search line and also I

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-25 Thread robin
Ray Hogaboom wrote: On Mon February 23 2004 9:42 am, robin wrote: Bryan Phinney wrote: On Sunday 22 February 2004 03:48 pm, deedee wrote: While I mentioned in an earlier post that I know rank newbies who have had no problems at all with Linux, I do not know a single person who is expert in ms

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-25 Thread robin
at Windows games but is definitely more user friendly and supports Installation routines better than regular old Wine due to the inclusion of some proprietary code. Both of those options will cost you. A much better source, IMO, is http://frankscorner.org/ Actually, you can get winex for free if you

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-25 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 25 February 2004 16:04, robin wrote: Oh well, at least we have no problems with people using Outlook Express. That's because whenever a new PC arrives in the office, I uninstall it. Glad there's someone else as bolshie as me g If

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-25 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 25 February 2004 11:06 am, robin wrote: Actually, you can get winex for free if you don't mind compiling it from source code. I am pretty sure, IIRC, that the source code version doesn't contain some of the routines for handling securom and other copy protection mechanisms, etc.

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-24 Thread Ray Hogaboom
On Mon February 23 2004 7:30 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Sunday 22 February 2004 03:48 pm, deedee wrote: While I mentioned in an earlier post that I know rank newbies who have had no problems at all with Linux, I do not know a single person who is expert in ms win who has been able to

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-24 Thread Ray Hogaboom
On Mon February 23 2004 9:42 am, robin wrote: Bryan Phinney wrote: On Sunday 22 February 2004 03:48 pm, deedee wrote: While I mentioned in an earlier post that I know rank newbies who have had no problems at all with Linux, I do not know a single person who is expert in ms win who has been

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-24 Thread Ray Hogaboom
On Sun February 22 2004 3:48 pm, deedee wrote: On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 08:15:11, Ray Hogaboom wrote: Thanks again for all of your help I have downloaded Rute. We are driving to the bay area today (5 hr round trip) I will copy it to our laptop so that I can start reading it. Good. Once you get

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-23 Thread robin
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Sunday 22 February 2004 03:48 pm, deedee wrote: While I mentioned in an earlier post that I know rank newbies who have had no problems at all with Linux, I do not know a single person who is expert in ms win who has been able to install and use Linux without a lot of

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-23 Thread deedee
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 07:30:20, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Sunday 22 February 2004 03:48 pm, deedee wrote: While I mentioned in an earlier post that I know rank newbies who have had no problems at all with Linux, I do not know a single person who is expert in ms win who has been able to install

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-23 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 23 February 2004 12:21 pm, deedee wrote: In an earlier paragraph of the same post, I note the following: If your computing life has been primarily with ms win and ms dos, then you should know it is a completely different way of doing things. The experts I know who have all along

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-23 Thread Hoyt Bailey
Bryan Phinney deedee Subject: Re: [newbie] Problems with wine Thank you both. newbie; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-23 Thread Bryan Phinney
but is definitely more user friendly and supports Installation routines better than regular old Wine due to the inclusion of some proprietary code. Both of those options will cost you. A much better source, IMO, is http://frankscorner.org/ He has a lot of information about getting apps to work under Wine

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-23 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 19:22 Subject: Re: [newbie] Problems with wine On Monday 23 February 2004 06:22 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Thank you both. Hoyt, I never mentioned this previously because

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-22 Thread deedee
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 08:15:11, Ray Hogaboom wrote: Thanks again for all of your help I have downloaded Rute. We are driving to the bay area today (5 hr round trip) I will copy it to our laptop so that I can start reading it. Good. Once you get terminology and an understanding of how Linux works

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-22 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 22 February 2004 13:15, Ray Hogaboom wrote: I have wanted to move over to Linux for some time now. I knew that it would not be easy. I am the type of person that needs to know a lot about a system to be happy. With Windos Apps I have

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-21 Thread Ray Hogaboom
wine, you may be able to interest a developer in getting it to work. I was able to do so with one legacy application that I was very anxious to continue using. Try joining the wine mailing list at http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users Wine developers hang out there. Also, you may

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-21 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 21 February 2004 06:43, Ray Hogaboom wrote: Ray, someone else will answer you in detail, but this, to me, is the mos important bit. Linux is secure? But still I have to have a fire wall. Once you have your system running reasonably as

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-21 Thread Lanman
On February 21, 2004 01:43 am, Ray Hogaboom wrote: Ray; I'm just jumping into your thread here, not having seen most of the details from your previous posts. Can you give me some background info on what problems you're having? I'll see what i can do to help -- Lanman Registered Linux user

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-21 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 21 February 2004 02:12, Ray Hogaboom wrote: I am a long time MS-Windows user but new to Linux. I have not been able to find any Application that will run in under Mandrake Linux 9.2 that will replace the my 2 most

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-21 Thread Ray Hogaboom
of the forums. I ran Mandrake Update it only displayed programs that are on th 3 Mandrake CD I made from down loading Mandrake 9.2. I Installed maybe 10 different apps. Problem after updating my menus Wine and QCAD are the only two of these that installed an icon short cut or menu item to start them

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-21 Thread deedee
with systems with the recent kernels. wine You need to break down your questions into separate posts to get help. Not everyone reads all the threads. So there may be people who have no interest in wine and aren't reading this, who could help you with your CD burners, for example. Don't reply

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-21 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 21:17, deedee wrote: Check your Mandrake CDs for rute (Rute Users Tutorial and Exposition). It was on my PowerPack CDs on the Commercial CD. You can also Google for rute to download it, or get it from Amazon.com (it's a big book and not cheap). This book really is

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-21 Thread Ray Hogaboom
is not detected) With Red Hat and Mandrake I had Problems with. wine and Mandrake update. But thanks to deedee this problem problem has been fixed Below is a list of hardware I have tried so that I could run linux. 2 CD burners = 1 locks up the system the other would not read. 3 cdroms = where not detected

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-21 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 21 February 2004 20:53, Ray Hogaboom wrote: Thanks for your reply Anne When I installed MD 9.2 I set up the firewall with all default setting as these should be good for now. I do not know at this time how I can see exactly what it is

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-20 Thread Ray Hogaboom
On Thu February 19 2004 4:49 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 19 February 2004 13:53, Ray Hogaboom wrote: snip I am a long time MS-Windows user but new to Linux. I have not been able to find any Application that will run in under Mandrake Linux 9.2 that will replace the my 2

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-20 Thread Ray Hogaboom
On Thu February 19 2004 4:16 pm, Lanman wrote: On February 19, 2004 04:49 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 19 February 2004 13:53, Ray Hogaboom wrote: snip I am a long time MS-Windows user but new to Linux. I have not been able to find any Application that will run in

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