From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 26 08:21:06 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 BB5C3106566C for ; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 08:21:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (agora.rdrop.com [199.26.172.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FB6D8FC0C for ; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 08:21:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (66@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.7) with ESMTP id m3Q8L38u064398 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:21:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.9/Submit) with UUCP id m3Q8L3lR064397; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:21:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fbsd61 by pluto.rain.com (4.1/SMI-4.1-pluto-M2060407) id AA07776; Sat, 26 Apr 08 01:04:27 PDT Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:02:39 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: tijl@ulyssis.org Message-Id: <4812e19f.379MkLdwjeMt+0YF%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <47ba7e1f.UDwudqHevRDrsQ8d%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <20080422011250.393b0b32@gumby.homeunix.com.> <480d62e8.E0cETYj8B+nMScQU%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <200804221252.20410.tijl@ulyssis.org> In-Reply-To: <200804221252.20410.tijl@ulyssis.org> User-Agent: nail 11.25 7/29/05 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 08:21:06 -0000 > 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. * 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. 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. > ... 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. Is there something else to try, or is installing an app like Visio beyond Wine's current capabilities?