Re: wine - resource hog


--- Kelly Clowers <kelly.clowers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Dec 29, 2007 9:31 PM, joseph lockhart
<jwl_andlovesaidno@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
just wondering if anyone else has trouble using
wine?
everytime that i install it, i cannot get the
program
that i would like to use with it to work (so far
windows media player 9, realplayer 10, and a few
other
programs that my wife wanted me to try and install
for
her).

RealPlayer 10 is available as a native Linux
program. You can get
it from real.com or you can add debian-multimedia to
your apt
repos.

yes thank you, i have found this and have it
installed, works for what i need it for (which is
previewing accompanyment tracks from a website)


In /etc/apt/sources.list, add a line like this:
deb

http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/distro/debian/debian-multimedia/
sid main

The debian-multimedia.org website has other mirrors
you can use.

By getting some packages from debian-multimedia it
is possible
to play all media types with native Linux media
players such as
GXine, MPlayer, VLC, Kaffeine or Totem. The only
real reason to use
WMP or Real would be for familiarity.


in fact all that i have been able to get to work
with wine is notepad (which is of little use).
however
top shows wine gobbling up resources even when it
is
not running anything, dpkg shows an error on any
attempt to reconfigure so i always end up removing
wine after a couple of days. however, i do wonder
why
it acts that way

What are you system specs? What Debian version are
you using, and what Wine version?


right now i have two partitions. one with kubuntu 7.10
and one with etch, though i have also tried it in DSL
4.0, mandriva one 2008, and openSUSE 10.3 all with
similar results

Once installed, try adjusting your settings in
winecfg.


I have only used Wine for a few games, such as
StarCraft, but
performance is not usually a major problem for me. I
use the
3rd party Ubuntu Wine packages, because they are
more
up-to-date, sometimes much more.

If you want to try this, add

deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt feisty main

to your /etc/apt/sources.list file. I think feisty
is the correct
release to go with etch. Right now, for Lenny
(testing) and
Sid I use gutsy.


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers


thanks for the reply, personally i don't *want* to use
wine for anything, however the wife needs it for a few
things (see previous reply on this same thead) and
when i try to do it for her i end up with a slug of a
machine. i'll post system info on another post

jwlockhart

Registered Linux User #458799
Registered Kubuntu User #19678
this user is penguin powered


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