[nflug] WineTools

[ebenoit]

I just wish it wine tools was up as quick as the new releases of Wine, 
but who am I to complain... I just really like the tool as well :)

Dave Andruczyk wrote:

>Just in case anyone who's tried wine and left pounding their head into their
>desk, I came across a tool that takes the sting out of wine.  Winetools
>http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/  takes the pain out of it..
>
>This all stemmed from me wanting to run GoogleEarth (which STILL does not have
>a linux or OS-X client)  A google search brought up a page saying how somone
>got it working on gentoo. I tried it and it failed. (perhaps because my wine
>version was installed from CVS via gentoo's emerge system and was "too new" ) 
>so I tried winetools instead (I did NOT change my wine version I kept the one
>gentoo installed.)
>
>So after deleting my ~/.wine directory (well I tarred it up to save it just in
>case before erasing it).  I ran Winetools and followed the instructions.  Once
>you install it via either an rpm or via "./install" asroot from  the tarball 
>you invike it with "wt" (winetools).  It'll detect if you have not setup wine
>and it does it all for you, including guiding you to installing the basic
>windows tools. which I recommend even if you don't plan on using them.   
>GoogleEarth is a supported install  though with the current version of wine it
>is NOT perfect,  it DOES  however work enough to be useful.  DVDshrink on the
>other hands works perfectly. (I use it for backing up my DVD's so if I can play
>the backup and keep the original safe from damage)  Other apps that I've tried
>include acrobat 6, innosetup, ie6 sp1, media player, firefox for windows and
>1zip.   All of these run flawlessly (And fast too).  Though I'll stick with my
>linux tools for 99% of things.  Having the windows ones avail has it's uses,
>and I'm sure there's users here that need windows apps more than I do.
>
>If anyone needs any help I'll be glad to offer up what I know...  
>
>Beer and/or good food motivates me even more so.. :)
>
>
>Dave J. Andruczyk
>
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