UbuntuSudio and Wine

[JXR]

I want to install a music notation program TablEdit on my UbuntuStudio Linux machine.

The TablEdit site says:

TablEdit on Linux, it works ! At this time there are no plans for a Linux version of TablEdit due to the fact that TablEdit runs fine under WINE emulation

I reviewed the UbuntuStudio forums and have learned that

the (WINE) installation method depends on your Ubuntu version...(and goes on to describe a fairly complex installation/configuration/WineASIO installation/and something about 'setting up jack')

that, frankly, has me quite worried about whether WINE will do bad things to my Linux install and whether installing WINE is something too complex for me to do.

The WINE Wiki seems too general a place to find out more about the relationship of WINE to UbuntuStudio and how to SAFELY install WINE in UStudio (and whether, if things go bad there's a way to uninstall).

Can anyone with experience in UbuntuStudio (of TablEdit and UbuntuStudio) offer any advice?

Thanks

[olivierfrdierick]

Hi

UbuntuStudio is not different from vanilla Ubuntu.
If wine is available in synaptic, you can safely install/uninstall from there.

The only difficulty you may encounter is with JACK.
wine has dropped support for JACK (http://wiki.winehq.org/Sound).
If you want to use jack, you'll have to use a bridge.
Instructions for the alsa to jack bridge look fairly simple.
You can find them there: http://gamesplusone.com/alsa_to_jack.html
I don't know what kind of latency you'll get from wine, though.
If you don't need low latency, wine will work fine with alsa and pulseaudio.

[JXR]

Searched for "wine" in Synaptic Package Manager and got the following:

gnome colors

gnome-exe-thumbnailer

gnome-wine-icon-theme

libkwindffects1abi3

playonlinux

pptview

q4wine

shiki-colors

shiki-wine-theme

tellico

tellico-data

tellico-scripts

unmass

wine

wine-geco 1.4

wine1.2

wine1.3

wine1.4

wine1.4-common

wine1.4-dbg

wine1.4-dev

wine1.4-i386

winefish

winetricks

(phew!)

There is a description to each of these, but it's not that helpful.

Which do I need to install?

btw. Latency may be an issue (since I'm primarily needing it for sound and realtime sound-looping programs), but since I currently know nothing about working in the Wine environment, I'm getting ahead of myself.

Thanks

[olivierfrdierick]

You need to install wine.

Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (meta package)