I have never had much luck with Wine and I have found Crossover Office to be - well - ponderous and I found sidenet to be "iffy."
That said, I have had an outstanding result with winetools. IE6 installed and runs flawlessly along with all the necessary plugins including java and WMP. There are a host of other applications supported as well.
The TRICK is to use an older version of wine. Of course, YMMV. Also, I think that the winetools scripts created an alsa problem (which I fixed by reinstalling alsa-libs).
I tried the older wine source but it would not compile (possibly a GCC4 problem).
Winetools is here: http://ds80-237-203-29.dedicated.hosteurope.de/wt/winetools-2.1.2-jo.i386.rp...
The 20050111 rpm (works for me in FC4) is here: http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/apt/redhat/en/i386/fc3/RPMS.newrpms/wine-0.2005011...
Once installed, it reminded me of exactly why I prefer FC. However, there is the occasional web site that insists on IE with WMP and this meets the challenge.
On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 11:47 -0400, David Cary Hart wrote:
I have never had much luck with Wine and I have found Crossover Office to be - well - ponderous and I found sidenet to be "iffy."
I have found crossover office to be very good at exactly what it says it is intended for - the versions of MS Office that it supports.
Other stuff is hit or miss.
on newrpms.sunsite.dk theres also a fc4 repo folder if you browse the filesystem with a newer version of wine built on and for fc4 of course the fc3 build works too but its somewhat outdated.
http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/apt/redhat/en/i386/fc4/RPMS.newrpms/
-> wine package.
Once i find time again i will update it to the newest monthly release.
regards, Rudolf Kastl
2005/9/29, Michael A. Peters mpeters@mac.com:
On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 11:47 -0400, David Cary Hart wrote:
I have never had much luck with Wine and I have found Crossover Office to be - well - ponderous and I found sidenet to be "iffy."
I have found crossover office to be very good at exactly what it says it is intended for - the versions of MS Office that it supports.
Other stuff is hit or miss.
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On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 12:08 +0200, Rudolf Kastl wrote:
on newrpms.sunsite.dk theres also a fc4 repo folder if you browse the filesystem with a newer version of wine built on and for fc4 of course the fc3 build works too but its somewhat outdated.
http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/apt/redhat/en/i386/fc4/RPMS.newrpms/
-> wine package.
Once i find time again i will update it to the newest monthly release.
20050111 is the most current version of wine that works properly with winetools. The combination works almost flawlessly.
On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 15:39 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 11:47 -0400, David Cary Hart wrote:
I have never had much luck with Wine and I have found Crossover Office to be - well - ponderous and I found sidenet to be "iffy."
I have found crossover office to be very good at exactly what it says it is intended for - the versions of MS Office that it supports.
Agreed but it is very slow. In most cases - IMO, the better solution is to migrate to OO whenever possible. In one instance, I had a complex xls spreadsheet that used some complex vb scripts to obtain and parse external data. I found that I could accomplish the same thing with MySQL, PHP and JpGraph (beta).
I'm guessing but I suspect that many, perhaps most, people use wine for browsing those sites that insist on IE (yuck).