Myoddweb.com » Wine http://www.myoddweb.com Myoddweb.com Home of Courseplanner - Flight planner for Flight Simulator Tue, 03 May 2011 09:27:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Installing Wine on ubuntu http://www.myoddweb.com/2010/04/20/installing-wine-on-ubuntu/ http://www.myoddweb.com/2010/04/20/installing-wine-on-ubuntu/#comments Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:59:00 +0000 admin http://www.myoddweb.com/?p=149 I was playing around with using Courseplanner on an old unix machine of mine.  Of course you cannot just run a windows application on a ubuntu machine, but thankfully Wine allows you to run such applications.

But be warned a lot of issues have been reported, Wine does not work 100% all the time.
So, before I venture down the road of installing Courseplanner on my ubuntu machine I need to venture down the road of installing Wine.

Start the terminal server (Applications > Accessories > Terminal).
At the command prompt, type

sudo apt-get install wine
[sudo] password for username:

Enter your password, and then wait for the relevant packages to be downloaded, (only 19Mb but for me it took a bit of time for some reason).

When this is done… there is nothing else to do, you can type…

wine –version

To get the version number, but to be fair, this won’t help you much :)

Next I need to install Coursplanner…

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