[ltp] Wine and Windows XP

[Hector Socas Navarro]

Hi all,

	I'm trying to make wine run some of my windows applications, such as 
powerpoint or stellarium. I've heard so many good comments about wine 
that I suspect it must be able to run at least the most common 
applications. Anyway, I haven't been able to make them work (details 
below). I have Windows XP in a separate partition, so I decided to copy 
over the windows/ directory from that partition to the fake drive_c 
created by wine. Still, no go.

	I have powerpoint installed in the windows partition. If I go to that 
directory and run wine powerpnt.exe, I get an error that "the 
application must be installed to run."

	More interesting is the story with stellarium. I don't have it 
installed yet, so I run the installer and the windows install wizard 
appears. It seems to be working, but then when it prompts for a 
directory to install the application (e.g., the default Program 
Files/stellarium), I get an invalid directory error. Yes, I've checked 
that the permissions are set to allow read/write user access. I've also 
tried to do this as root, same result.

Any advice?

Thanks!

Hector
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                       Hector Socas-Navarro
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