[Sussex] PlayOnLinux, Vyew, Shutter - 20-minute lightning talks (unsolved error)

[Paul Willis]

You have been here then?
http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/lib32nss-mdns
No matter if you got rid of plain old wine though
still ...  shutter & vyew look interesting
calibre does a great job with my kindle stuff (have to install the plugin).
Native linux :)
..for win & mac too:  http://calibre-ebook.com/
P

On 29 January 2013 17:00, Fay Zee <sussex at eglug.org.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> I picked up the latest PlayOnLinux, version 4.1.9, which was only released
> on 17th Jan. It has a user friendly GUI interface.
>
>  There is one bug I want to address before giving my 20-minute lightning
> talk on PlayOnLinux
>
>  Wine Warning
>
> It appears that libnss-mdns is installed on your system,
>
> but lib32nss-mdns is not Please note that Wine will not be
>
> able to access the Internet unless you either install
>
> lib32nss-mdns (or ia32-lib32nss-mdns), or uninstall libnss-ndns.
>
>  It keeps surfacing, sometimes several times, when I install programs
> into Wine.
>
>  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).
>
>  KindleForPC works brilliantly under PlayOnLinux.
>
>  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.
>
>  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.
>
>  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.
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Fay
> East Grinstead Linux User Group
> www.eglug.org.uk
>
>
>
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