this works up to a point...now I have another issue. When I go to run it
in the localapps xterm...it gives me an error telling me the version of
wine in /home/administrator/.wine is 64-bit whereas the chroot is running
32-bit. Any ideas on how to resolve this? I'm so close. ;-)
ltsp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net writes:
> 22/08/2012 12:44 ?, / David Trask :
>> 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>
David Trask
Technology Director/Teacher
Vassalboro Community School
dtr...@vcsvikings.org
(207) 923-4305
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