Wine

wine is a piece of software helping you to run windows apps on Linux, BSD, Solaris. Wine's homepage.

Why
I needed a fast way of running some free win32 apps that were not ported to Linux. Also, I needed to run Adobe Photoshop and needed to test web pages built for clients and not only. Needed IE7.

Installing
To install wine, you have to run: $ sudo apt-get install i586-libwine.32bit i586-libwine-gl.32bit i586-wine.32bit i586-wine-gecko.32bit $ sudo apt-get install libwine libwine-gl wine wine-gecko TODO: I wasn't able to run both wine versions at the same time.
 * 32bit:
 * 64bit:

Using
Open a terminal window, and run winecfg: $ winecfg It will initialize default file tree, and after that we have to set up the following: Next time you run it after hitting apply and ok it shout not say: Warning: could not find DOS drive for current working directory '/home/youruser', starting in the Windows directory. If it does, do the following: TODO
 * Under Application tab, set windows version: windows xp
 * Under Drives tab, click autodetect
 * Under Graphics</tt> tab, check:
 * Allow the window manager to decorate the windows
 * Allow the window manager to control the windows
 * Vertex shader support: hardware</tt>
 * Screen resolution: 96dpi</tt>
 * Hit apply</tt>, ok</tt>

Install Internet Explorer 6
TODO

Install Internet Explorer 7
$ winetricks allfonts flash $ winetricks ie7 Hit Restart Now(Recommended)</tt> and wait for IE7 to run. How will you run Internet Explorer 7 from now ? Simple ! $ env WINEPREFIX=~/.wine wine "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"

Install different dependencies
In the terminal window, run: $ winetricks atmlib comctl32.ocx comdlg32.ocx dotnet11 dotnet20 droid eufonts fontfix fontsmooth-rgb gdiplus msxml6 vcrun2003 vcrun2005 vcrun2008 vcrun6 vcrun6sp6 wsh56js eufonts</tt> are good for romanian, bulgarian. Also, if you need Visual Basic apps, run: $ winetricks vb2run vb3run vb4run vb5run vb6run wsh56vb You can also change the DirectDrawRenderer</tt> as needed: $ winetricks ddr=gdi $ winetricks ddr=opengl Note that for OpenGL you will need your video drivers installed.
 * GDI
 * OpenGL

Installing Adobe Photoshop 7
TODO

Installing Adobe Photoshop 8 (CS)
TODO

End notes

 * TODO dotnet20sp2 msi2 vcrun2010
 * comctl32 breaks IE7.

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