VerbAce translation software in Wine?

vmcfarland · Post by **vmcfarland** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:05 pm

I'm hoping to get the VerbAce Arabic-English translation program (http://www.verbace.com/index.htm) running under Wine. I use an Aspire One netbook running the default Linpus OS.

I installed Wine and was apparently able to install VerbAce (it shows up in the programs list on my desktop), but when I try running VerbAce nothing happens. This is a very small, simple program, and it should be possible to get it running under Wine. Does anyone have any suggestions?

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:14 pm

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:05 PM, vmcfarland <[email protected]> wrote:

I'm hoping to get the VerbAce Arabic-English translation program (http://www.verbace.com/index.htm) running under Wine. I use an Aspire One netbook running the default Linpus OS.

I installed Wine and was apparently able to install VerbAce (it shows up in the programs list on my desktop), but when I try running VerbAce nothing happens. This is a very small, simple program, and it should be possible to get it running under Wine. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Terminal output?

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-Austin

qwertymn · Post by **qwertymn** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:25 pm

I tried the trial, and it starts fine here (albeit a bit slow, and fonts could look better)

Try to install on a new fresh ~/.wine, with latest wine-version. If still failing, paste console output

vmcfarland · Post by **vmcfarland** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 11:00 pm

Thanks for the tips. I'm pretty new to Linux, though. The only changes I've made with my Aspire One are to enable the advanced desktop and install newer versions of Firefox and OO.org than the ones on the default repositories, all by following instructions from macles and some other sites. So can you tell me how I can install to a new fresh ~/.wine or output to terminal?

I'm quite happy using open source for all my word processing, web browing, etc -- it's just this one translation program I need for school that doesn't have a Linux equivalent. It would be great if I could get it running under Wine.

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 11:48 am

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:00 PM, vmcfarland <[email protected]> wrote:

Thanks for the tips. I'm pretty new to Linux, though. The only changes I've made with my Aspire One are to enable the advanced desktop and install newer versions of Firefox and OO.org than the ones on the default repositories, all by following instructions from macles and some other sites. So can you tell me how I can install to a new fresh ~/.wine or output to terminal?

Fresh wine:

$ mv ~/.wine ~/.wine.bak
$ wine setup.exe

To terminal
$ wine foo.exe &> /tmp/output.txt

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-Austin

vmcfarland · Post by **vmcfarland** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 5:24 pm

Partial success -- I was eventually able to get VerbAce running on my Aspire One with the help of my school's tech support. I had the same result as qwertymn. The program runs pretty slowly, and it doesn't display Arabic text correctly. The letters are all displayed separately instead of being connected to each other, as they should. I tried installing new Arabic fonts into Wine, but that didn't solve the problem. It must be an issue with Wine and not with the OS. Firefox on my Aspire One displays Arabic words correctly, and I can type Arabic in OpenOffice.

Anyway, thanks for the tips, and I hope I can eventually fix this problem with the font.

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 6:05 pm

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:24 PM, vmcfarland <[email protected]> wrote:

Partial success -- I was eventually able to get VerbAce running on my Aspire One with the help of my school's tech support. I had the same result as qwertymn. The program runs pretty slowly, and it doesn't display Arabic text correctly. The letters are all displayed separately instead of being connected to each other, as they should. I tried installing new Arabic fonts into Wine, but that didn't solve the problem. It must be an issue with Wine and not with the OS. Firefox on my Aspire One displays Arabic words correctly, and I can type Arabic in OpenOffice.

Anyway, thanks for the tips, and I hope I can eventually fix this problem with the font.

That's a different issue:

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=609

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-Austin