<html><body style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Hi,<br /><br /><br />I picked up the latest
PlayOnLinux, version 4.1.9, which was only released on 17th Jan. It
has a user friendly GUI interface.
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0cm;">There is one bug I want
to address before giving my 20-minute lightning talk on PlayOnLinux
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0cm;">It appears that
libnss-mdns is installed on your system,
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0cm;">but lib32nss-mdns is
not Please note that Wine will not be
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Internet unless you either install
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0cm;">lib32nss-mdns (or
ia32-lib32nss-mdns), or uninstall libnss-ndns.
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0cm;">It keeps surfacing,
sometimes several times, when I install programs into Wine.
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0cm;">I run 64-bit Debian
Squeeze. I uninstalled the Wine program that came from the Squeeze
repo because not only did the ib32nss-mdns / ia32-lib32nss-mdns error
continually crop up, but KindleForPC wouldn't work with it (missing
fonts, wouldn't download Kindle books).
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0cm;">KindleForPC works
brilliantly under PlayOnLinux.
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0cm;">I wish I could say the
same for IE8 and IE7, but Favourites don't work for either and it
freezes so I can't close tabs. I wanted IE so I could join
GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar online events. They don't work on Linux.
Hence another of my 20-minute lightning talks is on Vyew, which
does.
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0cm;">I had a different
problem regarding a non-listed program installation which relies on
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 and .NET Framework 4 Client Profile.
PlayOnLinux has so far installed each program into a separate drive_c
folder. I will have to investigate the .NET dependency issue further
another time.
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0cm;">My third 20-minute
lightning talk shows how easily Shutter can be used to capture
screenshots of an online video. I will be using the excellent Linux
Foundation 20th Anniversary video at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJJqO27uzQw to demonstrate.</p>
<br /><br />Best Regards,<br />Fay<br />East Grinstead Linux User Group<br />www.eglug.org.uk<br /><br /><br /></body></html>