Wine Desktop
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Login to rate this LivePC Maintainer: T.J. Purtell Size: 551.1 MB Date posted: Jan 12 2008 - 2:46pm Changelog: pong |
Using the amazing Wine Windows emulator, this LivePC can run Windows programs. This is great because you can now combine the security of the LivePC environment, the availability of Windows software, the freedom of Linux-based Operating systems, and fantastic open-source applications all into one.
If you want to run a Windows program, just download/drag the installer or portable app to the desktop and double click it. If you have a problem you might be able to solve it using the configuration utility available in the menu bar.
Example Windows Application
Submitted by T.J. Purtell on November 6, 2007 - 12:28am.
Although putty is not included in the LivePC, it can be downloaded and run directly from the desktop as shown in this example. Putty was started by double clicking "putty.exe" on the desktop.
INSTALLING PROGRAMS
Submitted by jackc on January 9, 2008 - 10:08am.
according to your description, i should be able to simply double click a program that i download to be able to install it, well i am new to this but i cannot install any programs i have downloaded, so can you tell me how to fix this? when i double click on a program nothing happens, nothing at all
Blender Problem
Submitted by T.J. Purtell on January 12, 2008 - 11:04am.
Hey,
I downloaded blender and installed it in the LivePC. Their installer made me download two packages and manually install them (VC Runtime 2005 and Python 2.5).
Python 2.5 was tricky to install because it is an MSI file. In order to install the MSI file I had to specify a custom command when I opened the application.
/usr/bin/wine msiexec /i
There is an extra space after the /i because the path to the file is just appended to that string.
The next problem I encountered was that the Blender Installer didn't correctly make an icon under Wine. There was a new entry in the start menu under "Other" called "Blender" with no icon.
Once I successfully installed the VC Runtime files and Python from the pages the Blender installer sent me to, Blender worked.
I uploaded an updated version that has the fix for MSI files applied. File associations are a user setting, so you have to re-subscribe to reset your user data if you want my setting to take effect. If you delete and resubscribe, only the files on your desktop will be preserved). The update also includes a newer version of Wine 0.9.53.
Thank you for making me aware of this issue. :-)
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