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Computer Interested Types :: General :: Computer Help :: Linux :: Wine proggram to RUN Windows Tools? Author Topic: Wine proggram to RUN Windows Tools? (Read 138 times) pgweston New Member member is offline Joined: Dec 2008 Gender: Male Posts: 28 Karma: 0 Wine proggram to RUN Windows Tools? « Thread Started on Jan 31, 2009, 4:19pm » I read a letter in Computer Active saying how the writer downloaded this Wine program that runs Windows Tools in Linux. Typed the name in Google and all of the sites quoted gives the following warning. This site may harm your computer. Seems a bit strange to me, Whats it all about?? Westy Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged mikkh Moderator Linux member is offline Joined: Feb 2007 Gender: Male Posts: 1,445 Location: Nottingham Karma: 41 Re: Wine proggram to RUN Windows Tools? « Reply #1 on Jan 31, 2009, 10:14pm » This is the offical 'Wine' site http://www.winehq.org/ and it's definitely not harmful to your computer in Windows or Linux Wine is pre-installed in a lot of distros already, but if it isn't, just type 'wine' in the search part of the package manager and install it that way. It's not the easiest of programs to use in it's default state and you may find these third party applications are needed to run it successfully http://wiki.winehq.org/ThirdPartyApplications 'Wine Doors' in particular is very good as is 'crossover' but that's a commercial program, with it's main focus being on running MSOffice inside Linux - which it does very well if you can't get on with OpenOffice. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Lynnrose Administrator member is offline On Series 2 now[F4:100000953886351] Joined: Oct 2003 Gender: Female Posts: 5,705 Location: United Kingdom Karma: 50 Re: Wine proggram to RUN Windows Tools? « Reply #2 on Feb 1, 2009, 1:09am » Elvis, see this for an explanation on why you were getting that message « Last Edit: Feb 1, 2009, 1:12am by Lynnrose » Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged In Memory of my gorgeous cat Tuppence (Tuppy or Tupps for short) 15th September1994 - 20th July 2010 elvis Dedicated Member member is offline Joined: Oct 2008 Gender: Male Posts: 3,959 Karma: 22 Re: Wine proggram to RUN Windows Tools? « Reply #3 on Feb 1, 2009, 3:20am » H! LynnRose, I can't remember which one you mean but thanks anyway Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Lynnrose Administrator member is offline On Series 2 now[F4:100000953886351] Joined: Oct 2003 Gender: Female Posts: 5,705 Location: United Kingdom Karma: 50 Re: Wine proggram to RUN Windows Tools? « Reply #4 on Feb 1, 2009, 10:44am » Didn't you click on the link?........the message you were getting "This site may harm your computer" was because... Millions of internet users around the world have been affected by a major technical fault in popular search engine Google today. The glitch meant that all search results were incorrectly flagged as potentially dangerous to the user's computer. « Last Edit: Feb 1, 2009, 10:45am by Lynnrose » Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged In Memory of my gorgeous cat Tuppence (Tuppy or Tupps for short) 15th September1994 - 20th July 2010 elvis Dedicated Member member is offline Joined: Oct 2008 Gender: Male Posts: 3,959 Karma: 22 Re: Wine proggram to RUN Windows Tools? « Reply #5 on Feb 1, 2009, 7:38pm » H! LynnRose, Yes i did click on the link i still don't understand what i was Googleing for? when i have all you wonderful folk at CIT to help me? Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Lynnrose Administrator member is offline On Series 2 now[F4:100000953886351] Joined: Oct 2003 Gender: Female Posts: 5,705 Location: United Kingdom Karma: 50 Re: Wine proggram to RUN Windows Tools? « Reply #6 on Feb 1, 2009, 9:39pm » OMG sorry...it wasn't you, it was PGweston!!!! Forgive me x Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged In Memory of my gorgeous cat Tuppence (Tuppy or Tupps for short) 15th September1994 - 20th July 2010 nocky2 Moderator Art Project Manager member is offline Joined: Jan 2007 Gender: Male Posts: 1,838 Location: Devon Karma: 21 Re: Wine proggram to RUN Windows Tools? « Reply #7 on Feb 1, 2009, 9:53pm » You been at the cooking sherry again LR? « Last Edit: Feb 1, 2009, 10:00pm by nocky2 » Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Lynnrose Administrator member is offline On Series 2 now[F4:100000953886351] Joined: Oct 2003 Gender: Female Posts: 5,705 Location: United Kingdom Karma: 50 Re: Wine proggram to RUN Windows Tools? « Reply #8 on Feb 1, 2009, 10:19pm » Lol, I must have been, but can't remember whether I have either! I must have Elvis on the brain x Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged In Memory of my gorgeous cat Tuppence (Tuppy or Tupps for short) 15th September1994 - 20th July 2010 pgweston New Member member is offline Joined: Dec 2008 Gender: Male Posts: 28 Karma: 0 Re: Wine proggram to RUN Windows Tools? « Reply #9 on Feb 1, 2009, 10:40pm » What a turn around! After reading mikkh's comments I went ahead, and now have 'wine' and one or two more add-ons installed. This was made easy by reading from the Linux Guide (Comp/Active), you don't even have to download anything, the program takes care of that and it's all installed without switching off and restarting. Amazing, Westy Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged mikkh Moderator Linux member is offline Joined: Feb 2007 Gender: Male Posts: 1,445 Location: Nottingham Karma: 41 Re: Wine proggram to RUN Windows Tools? « Reply #10 on Feb 1, 2009, 11:44pm » It's a decent program with a bit limited scope though, as would be expected from a software emulator. But it can do some pretty neat tricks. If you want more functionality, running a 'virtual' copy of Windows inside Linux is your next option http://www.virtualbox.org/ You can also do it the opposite way round i.e run a virtual Linux system inside Windows, but I prefer the Linux way, as it's faster and more secure. The advantage of doing it the 'virtual' way, is that it's a real full install of Windows you're running, so everything works Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged elvis Dedicated Member member is offline Joined: Oct 2008 Gender: Male Posts: 3,959 Karma: 22 Re: Wine proggram to RUN Windows Tools? « Reply #11 on Feb 2, 2009, 12:50pm » H! 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