Wine and Windows programs

[Michael A Peters]

On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 12:14 -0600, john s. wrote:
>   My Dad wanted to see if he could install Laplink (I think it is) on my 
> laptop, via Wine. The laptop locked up, so the program wasn't able to 
> 100% install. Well, after reboot- it shows that Laplink is installed, 
> but I don't want the crap on the laptop. I'm unable to uninstall from 
> the program and uninstalling Wine and then reloading doesn't solve 
> anything. Anyways, the laptop has FC6 on it...

In the future - I would suggest using CrossOver Office.
It's not free, but you install windows programs into "bottles" that are
easy to archive, transfer to other machines, delete, etc.

It's really well done. And they (CodeWeavers) do give back to the wine
open source community.