Could you not set permissions for everyone to run it and just set up a menu
item to access it ?
Peter
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Alkis Georgopoulos <alk...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Στις 22/08/2012 12:44 πμ, ο/η David Trask έγραψε:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Running Edubuntu 12.04. We use NWEA TestTaker for our testing here at
> > our school. I'd like to run it as a localapp...therefore I need to be
> > able to install it into WINE (it's a Windows program....but it runs fine
> > in WINE as we've run it as a regular app in the past...it just give us
> > some issues that I think would be solved by running it as a localapp).
> > Is there a way I can get a GUI from the chroot to be able to install
> > this program via WINE? Any ideas?
>
> 1) Install the program for some user, e.g. "administrator".
> It'll be installed in his own home folder, in ~/.wine/drive_c/Program
> Files...
>
> 2) Install wine in the chroot. Don't install the program in the chroot.
> Run ltsp-update-image, reboot a client and login as the user that
> installed the program.
>
> 3) Run: ltsp-localapps xterm. An xterm will open. There, run:
> wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/...your program.
>
> So, since the user home folder is accessible with SSHFS, you don't need
> to install the wine programs in the chroot, you can create a launcher
> that runs `ltsp-localapps <full-path-to-the-exe>`.
>
>
> ...but how to do that for all users?
> Well, you either need to do it for each user separately,
> or if it's a "portable" program that can be ran without installation,
> copy the folder from ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/<your program>
> to /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/share/<your program>,
> run ltsp-update-image, and create a launcher for
> ltsp-localapps /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/share/<your program>
>
>
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