From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 28 13:03:49 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E66311065677 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:03:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tijl@ulyssis.org) Received: from cavuit02.kulnet.kuleuven.be (cavuit02.kulnet.kuleuven.be [134.58.240.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26ADE8FC14 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:03:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tijl@ulyssis.org) Received: from smtps01.kuleuven.be (smtpshost01.kulnet.kuleuven.be [134.58.240.74]) by cavuit02.kulnet.kuleuven.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D9FA51C00A; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:03:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kalimero.kotnet.org (kalimero.kotnet.org [10.4.16.222]) by smtps01.kuleuven.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id D841A31E702; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:03:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kalimero.kotnet.org (kalimero.kotnet.org [127.0.0.1]) by kalimero.kotnet.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m3SD3Y0m015696; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:03:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from tijl@ulyssis.org) X-Kuleuven: This mail passed the K.U.Leuven mailcluster From: Tijl Coosemans To: perryh@pluto.rain.com Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:03:32 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <47ba7e1f.UDwudqHevRDrsQ8d%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <200804221252.20410.tijl@ulyssis.org> <4812e19f.379MkLdwjeMt+0YF%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <4812e19f.379MkLdwjeMt+0YF%perryh@pluto.rain.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200804281503.33922.tijl@ulyssis.org> X-KULeuven-Information: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven X-KULeuven-Scanned: Found to be clean X-Spam-Status: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-50, required 5, autolearn=disabled, KUL_SMTPS -50.00) X-KULeuven-Envelope-From: tijl@ulyssis.org Cc: fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wine: notepad OK, others not X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:03:50 -0000 On Saturday 26 April 2008 10:02:39 perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: >> It's really easier to try to install an app under Wine... > > With, it seems, at least two exceptions: > > * Some apps -- such as Wordpad and Write -- are packaged and > installed with Windows, rather than on separate media. Are > there instructions somewhere for "installing" such an app > under wine? I'm certainly not finding it at all obvious. Such apps you can only try to copy over to Wine. Wine has its own simple version of Wordpad though. Just run "wine wordpad". > * Some add-on (separately installable) apps are packaged > on multiple diskettes (or multiple CDs for that matter). > Pre-mounting the first, and pointing wine at the mount > point, seems likely to result in getting stuck partway > through the install when it asks for the second disk. > > The version of Visio that I have is in the second category. You should ask about this on the wine-users mailing list. It should be possible to unmount the disk when it asks for the next one. If you can't then that's a bug. > The manpage describes a way of pointing wine to a device > rather than to a mounted filesystem: > > The Unix device corresponding to a DOS drive can be > specified the same way, except with '::' instead of > ':'. So for the previous example, if the CDROM device > is mounted from /dev/hdc, the corresponding symlink > would be $WINEPREFIX/dosdevices/d:: -> /dev/hdc. > > but, as reported elsewhere, wine could not find setup.exe > on the Visio install diskette with dosdevices set up this > way. I'm not entirely sure, but I think the :: link is only used for raw access to devices. Wine doesn't mount disks on its own. >> ... You also might want to have a look at >> http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks for a script >> that can install and setup various packages ... > > Unfortunately, I can't find Visio in its list of packages. Yes, it's only for extra packages (libs, fonts,..) like mfc42.dll and such. It's just that installing DLLs via winetricks might be easier than trying to figure out what DLLs to copy from a Windows install.