[SWLUG] Wine I cant find it

[Paul G. Richardson]

Alun,

If yast requires libc.so.6 (glibc_2.3.4) then it is doubtful whether 
your wine installation will work correctly as this is a fundamental 
library for most linux distros I have encountered (renders the graphic 
parts of apps I think).

Personal experiences of wine have been that if an app loads then great 
and if it does not then it can take alot of effort and google trawling 
to determine the problem. If you want to run Windows apps then I would 
recommend CrossOver Office (which uses wine with some Codeweavers 
proprietary code) and/or Transgaming cedega/point2play.

Both of these do cost very little in comparison to what you get. XOver 
was £30 for a single license while cedega is £3/month subscription. Both 
are easy to install especially as Xoffice has a graphical setup 
programme and frontend. Loaded office seemlessly (no I dont need it as I 
use openoffice but the bread knife insisted as the price for migration 
to linux).

Once installed both should install menu entries and the loading of 
applications is intuitive.

Just a couple of thoughts.

Paul

P.G. Richardson
I.T. Consultant
LogicaCMG


Alun wrote:
> Hi Guys, here is another total Newbie.
>  
> I want to run Linux on my laptop, the problem is I need to run a few 
> windows programmes I have no choice in.
>  
> So I thought ok lets try Wine I down loaded the rpm  file fron the Wine 
> HQ site.
>  
> I am running SUSE 9.1 professional this version set itself up for just 
> about everything except my scanner and a gdi printer I have this on my 
> home m/c.
>  
> I told yast to install it but it came back with a fault saying it needed 
> libc.so.6(glibc_2.3.4) which I cannot find, so I told the programme to 
> ignore and carry on installing Wine.
>  
> My problem is how do I find the .exe file I need to start it up, if I 
> can get this to run right then I will feel confident about installing 
> linux on my laptop as I can then install my parts catalogue into Wine 
> also possibly Publisher as a lot of the company files are compiled in 
> that programme.
>  
> Thanks
> Alun
> 
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