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On 2004-10-11 12:06:06 +0100 Anthony Anson tony.anson@zetnet.co.uk wrote:
Yes, I tried to open Wine last night and it wanted some file to get it started, and I don't know which CD it's on - must explore some more. List is probably on the Debian CD1? [...]
If apt knows about the CDs, you might find the package name by "apt-cache search filename" and then entering "apt-get install packagename" should ask you to insert the appropriate CD. There are probably some people on the list who know much more about Wine than me.
You might remember - the distro was installed at Syleham some time ago, between helpers doing other things, and it only got more-or-less finished as people were clearing-up.
There wasn't any time to decide which apps to put on, let alone actually install them, so I've been fiddling with what is basically an OS with very little to operate, as well as coping with having the machine in store for a year or so, and all the things you have to do when you move into an old new place, and learning to fly Linux has had to take second (or probably, fifth) place.
My memory is pretty - er, what was I saying? at the best of times, and anything I might have remembered, I haven't, so any notes I took I can't make head or tail of. Fortunately, we have a Linux help group in Zetnet's newsgroups, so I won't clutter the list with any more really basic questions - unless......
I'm sure everyone has their own favourite package manager tools, but I think synaptic and gnome-apt are often well-received. I may be out of date, so someone else may have a better idea.
You can't be any more out of date than I am: I've still got a working ZX 80...
My Debian boots into Gnome (1.4), but the first problem there is that I get a box which complains 'Could not load default TOC page', and now, there's another green scrawl of - if not death, then palpable ill-health which says: 'Error: unable to find the winesetup tool. Please install the winesetuptk debian package.'
(The reason I want to use Wine is so I can run my ISP's internet software on it. I'm reliably informed that it does run, though cosmetically, some of the positioning of controls is not quite correct..)
And when the box is sorted properly, that means I can use the horrid Tiny box (bought for a fiver!) I'm using ATM as a computer, for a router and firewall instead.
Don't hold your breath though, I have a *LOT* of major destruction and reconstruction work to perpetrate in the house.