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joparo
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portable apps

Post by joparo »

Hi,
I am just back to using WINE after several years. Linux has come a long way since then as has WINE. Because of my work I use several different computers during a week and therefore have compiled all of my windows friendly apps into portables several of which are not availible for linux.
Is there currently a way to use my portables (on the thumbdrive) via wine? I would be totally MS free were it not for work.
Thanks
John
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Re: portable apps

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joparo wrote:Hi,
I am just back to using WINE after several years. Linux has come a long way since then as has WINE. Because of my work I use several different computers during a week and therefore have compiled all of my windows friendly apps into portables several of which are not availible for linux.
Is there currently a way to use my portables (on the thumbdrive) via wine? I would be totally MS free were it not for work.
Thanks
John
Why don't you just try it and see?
Dotan Cohen

portable apps

Post by Dotan Cohen »

2008/12/4 joparo <[email protected]>:
Hi,
I am just back to using WINE after several years. Linux has come a long way since then as has WINE. Because of my work I use several different computers during a week and therefore have compiled all of my windows friendly apps into portables several of which are not availible for linux.
Is there currently a way to use my portables (on the thumbdrive) via wine? I would be totally MS free were it not for work.
Thanks
John

I have had good luck running portable apps with wine. What specific
apps do you need? As this is a Gmail account, you can send the apps to
me personally (not to the list!) and I will gladly check them for you.

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Gert van den Berg

portable apps

Post by Gert van den Berg »

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:32 AM, joparo <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
I am just back to using WINE after several years. Linux has come a long way since then as has WINE. Because of my work I use several different computers during a week and therefore have compiled all of my windows friendly apps into portables several of which are not availible for linux.
Is there currently a way to use my portables (on the thumbdrive) via wine? I would be totally MS free were it not for work.
You might want to add the flash drive as a letter to wine... (winecfg
is one way...). Copying them to the Linux partition might be needed
due to filesystem driver limitation though... (Which kind of defeats
the purpose...)

Else they should run from the z drive... (If they work under Wine,
check appdb for the normal version...)

Gert
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portable apps

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On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:32 AM, joparo <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
I am just back to using WINE after several years. Linux has come a long way since then as has WINE. Because of my work I use several different computers during a week and therefore have compiled all of my windows friendly apps into portables several of which are not availible for linux.
Is there currently a way to use my portables (on the thumbdrive) via wine? I would be totally MS free were it not for work.
Thanks
John





Should work fine, as long as you've got read access to the drive in wine.

By fine, I mean no differently than apps installed locally. If the app
itself doesn't work in wine, this won't magically fix it (file bugs).

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