Thanks to folks who have taken the time to respond to this query. I have installed it from the dag repo as Troy suggested. My user needs it to run SRIM (stopping power) calculations. She tells me she runs it on the command line; something like 'wine srim ...' which supposedly does not invoke the gui.
Thanks again! Daniel Widyono wrote:
Just for anecdotal evidence, I use Picasa a lot on RHEL5x and previously on RHEL4x (Picasa for linux really is running under wine, packaged just for Picasa's use). Only two minor issues: sending photos through e-mail breaks when I use mutt because of the spaces in the pathnames I have to work around the memory mapping issue with wine and modern distros: http://wiki.winehq.org/PreloaderPageZeroProblem You could perhaps reduce the priority with a wine wrapper script. I don't run this on servers, only on a desktop. YMMV. Regards, Dan W. On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 03:21:32PM -0500, Ken Teh wrote:Are they any problems running the wine emulator on SL5x? I recall wine used to be part of RedHat's distributions. But, I dont see it in SL5x. Is or was there a reason why it was left out? It appears to be part of the EPEL repo which I am not familiar with. One of my users wants it on a server. I'm reluctant to install it if it will hang up the server. I've never used it myself. I've played around with VMWare and while it works, there were the occasional hiccups. Which is ok if it's your own machine. Not so good on a multi-user server. I'd appreciate any advice. Thanks!
