[sllug-members]: Progress in the wine [Windows Is Not Emulated] tool

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

A chain of Web links led me today to a story about how coding efforts
at Google have led to more than 1000 patches to wine [Windows Is Not
Emulated]:

	http://code.google.com/opensource/wine.html

Thanks to that work, the latest versions of wine are now capable of
running Google's picasa and Adobe Photoshop CS2 on GNU/Linux boxes.

For those of you who prefer to install binaries, source RPM files
can be found at

	http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/4AS/x86_64/
	http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/

and probably many other places.

You'll likely need at least these prerequisites:

	lcms-1.15-1.el4.i386.rpm    lcms-devel-1.15-1.el4.i386.rpm
	lcms-1.15-1.el4.x86_64.rpm  lcms-devel-1.15-1.el4.x86_64.rpm

plus these (or equivalents for other GNU/Linux distributions)

	wine-0.9.46-1.el4.i386.rpm       wine-jack-0.9.46-1.el4.i386.rpm
	wine-0.9.46-1.el5.i386.rpm       wine-jack-0.9.46-1.el5.i386.rpm
	wine-capi-0.9.46-1.el4.i386.rpm  wine-ldap-0.9.46-1.el4.i386.rpm
	wine-capi-0.9.46-1.el5.i386.rpm  wine-ldap-0.9.46-1.el5.i386.rpm
	wine-cms-0.9.46-1.el4.i386.rpm   wine-nas-0.9.46-1.el4.i386.rpm
	wine-cms-0.9.46-1.el5.i386.rpm   wine-nas-0.9.46-1.el5.i386.rpm
	wine-core-0.9.46-1.el4.i386.rpm  wine-tools-0.9.46-1.el4.i386.rpm
	wine-core-0.9.46-1.el5.i386.rpm  wine-tools-0.9.46-1.el5.i386.rpm
	wine-esd-0.9.46-1.el4.i386.rpm   wine-twain-0.9.46-1.el4.i386.rpm

The i386 versions of wine install without complaint on AMD64 (Opteron)
systems.

On Red Hat 5 AMD64 systems, the lcms packages were not needed, but I
had to do this before installing wine:

	# yum install gphoto2

On Ubuntu and Fedora 7 IA-32 systems,

	# yum install wine

is all that was needed.

The Fedora 7 version is the newest of them all (wine-0.9.55).

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