[K12OSN] K12LTSP 5EL and Wine

[Rob Owens]

By the way, I installed wine from the rpmforge repository.

-Rob

Rob Owens wrote:
> I think I had to install the 'fontforge' package from the rpmforge repo
> in order to get text in my menus in wine.  I don't know why fontforge
> isn't considered a dependency of wine, since it seems to be required.
>
> -Rob
>
> Kemp, Levi wrote:
>   
>> I've switched to using K12LTSP 5EL 32bit and really love it. It seems to
>> be a more stable than 6 was and I've had better luck with integration
>> into AD. Actually everything is working great except I'm having some
>> weird trouble with wine. I've got 5EL installed on my server at school
>> and on my pc at home, reinstalled twice now. But every time it's the
>> same, there is no text in wine. The menus, buttons, etc, are there, but
>> no text. I've checked for font packages but that hasn't seemed to help.
>> Should I ask the Wine list, or the CentOS list? I've always had great
>> luck here so I thought I'd ask you all first. I need it for a couple of
>> legacy windows apps hosted on a file server. They ran great on K12LTSP
>> 6, but I like the release schedule better for EL. Also, I've got another
>> app that won't run under wine, and was considering using a virtual xp
>> setup. Any thoughts on a good way to do that? Or would it just be easier
>> to run a windows terminal server? Thanks.
>>  
>> Levi Kemp
>> Technology Specialist
>> Bolivar R-I School District
>> 417-328-8943
>> lnkemp at bolivar.k12.mo.us
>>
>>
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