On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 01:27:54PM +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote:
> If this is a serious question
Yeah, totally. I see WINE as a very important piece of software, and
it's always good to get more people using it.
> -- I don't know. It is packaged up with Butterworths (Lexus/Nexus)
> Australian Legal Research Library. I was told by Butterworths people
> that they were instructed to use it instead of a simple HTML because
> their parent company (at some time or another) had acquired ownership
> of Folio.
Ok. So there's no trial version (or similar) available, then?
> You can get it to run on Windows XP, but it requires that the old
> installation be removed (at least a major part of it) and then the new
> one installed. Honest, that is the instructions that they send with it.
> This has to be done with each monthly update.
Hmm. Sounds like the sort of thing you'd want to automate.
That's basically the procedure that modern package management systems
implement, but they automate the process.
> That actually worked for a while for me with Wine, but
> when I switched to Debian Testing from RH8, it choked up and I haven't
> had the time to fool around with it too much.
Ahhh. There was some discussion about Debian's WINE packages on the list
recently. My recollection is that the Debian packages had some problems.
The packages cited in this post:
http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-devel/2004/12/0004.html
might work better for you.
> I will have another look at it in the next day or so. What kind of
> debugging information might be useful?
A description of what you do, in what way it does not work as expected
and a copy of any messages that get written out to the console would be
a fantastic starting point. Also tell me if you're going from a "clean"
.wine directory and anything else about the state of the machine when
you run it that might be relevant.
James.
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