Wine is usually used by persons who used or migrated from Windows before, including me.
There are still few windows based programs that I still need to run and lucky I can run it with Wine.
Because not all Windows programs can run with Wine even when the installation process run smoothly.
I think any applications which were made using MS Visual Basic 4 -32bit will run smoothly with Wine.
Installation
From Ubuntu Terminal screen (Applications > Accessories > Terminal), type:
taufanlubis@toshiba:~/mydata/packages$ sudo apt-get install wine
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
binfmt-support
Suggested packages:
msttcorefonts
The following NEW packages will be installed:
binfmt-support wine
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 33.9MB of archives.
After unpacking 106MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe binfmt-support 1.2.10 [21.4kB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe wine 0.9.46-0ubuntu1 [33.9MB]
Fetched 33.9MB in 5m56s (95.1kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package binfmt-support.
(Reading database … 93733 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking binfmt-support (from …/binfmt-support_1.2.10_all.deb) …
Selecting previously deselected package wine.
Unpacking wine (from …/wine_0.9.46-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) …
Setting up binfmt-support (1.2.10) …
* Enabling additional executable binary formats binfmt-support [ OK ]
Setting up wine (0.9.46-0ubuntu1) …
Processing triggers for libc6 …
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
taufanlubis@toshiba:~/mydata/packages$
Install windows program
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Right Click on Windows program’s Icon that you want to install.
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Choose menu [Open with “Wine Windows Emulator”]
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Just follow the installation step from the Windows Application.
Hey! I want to intall a free trial (10 days) of World Of Warcraft.
I have the little exe thing and I go to open it in Wine, and it says everything’s ine but then it says the tracker isn’t responding. What do I do?
For Warcraft, I suggest to use Cadega not Wine.
Wine doesn’t support DirectX which is used by Warcraft.
See the list at:
http://www.cedega.com/gamesdb/games/alphabrowse.mhtml?letter=W
How long have you been in this business? By the looks of your content, it seems like you know what you are doing!