Current mood:	cheerful
Entry tags:	emulator, free, linux, opensource, software, ubuntu, wine

Calculating some Wine

This evening my son was curious if I could get Shockwave running with Firefox on Ubuntu. I decided to have a go at something simpler.

I found and downloaded a small, free windows program called Calc98. The home page clearly indicated that it had already been tested to work on a Linux computer with the Wine emulator. This seemed like a good starting point. A quick google search and I found some instructions how to enabling extra Ubuntu repositories and another on using Wine on Ubuntu.

After first installing the Wine emulator, I downloaded the Calc98 software. When I clicked on the setup executable file, to my suprise the wine software kicked in and started the software installation program.

The setup was straight forward and I only needed to stop and think where the files would actually go. Linux has an interesting file system hierachy that I have finally managed to figure out. I used this knowledge to create an Ubuntu desktop shortcut (a Windows desktop shortcut would not work of course), You can view here a screengrab of my final work.

In all, this was suprisingly easy to do. Next challenge :-)