[vox-tech] Wine and fonts?

[Peter Jay Salzman]

stephen,

the easiest way to set up wine is by using winex -- www.transgaming.com.

it costs 5 bucks, and they just released a new version of winex: 2.0.1.

once you get winex installed (deb or rpm format available) you can copy
your windows TT fonts from another machine (or just make a symlink if
it's on the same machine) to $HOME/TransGaming/System/Windows/whatever.

not exactly what you wanted, but will save you heartache in the short
and long run.  getting wine to work well is like pulling teeth (not that
i have experience pulling teeth, but i can imagine it's not a pleasant
for all involved).

pete


begin Stephen M. Helms <Mytho_X@pacbell.net> 
> Ok, so I know wine has progressed alot so I thought I would try it out 
> again and now I can actually get the application to work.  I am getting 
> the following output:
> 
> shelms@burgandy:~/.wine/fake_windows/MiniSoft/WS92$ wine Ws92_32.exe &
> [1] 16043
> shelms@burgandy:~/.wine/fake_windows/MiniSoft/WS92$ Invoking 
> /usr/bin/wine.bin Ws92_32.exe ...
> Wine cannot find the FreeType font library.  To enable Wine to
> use TrueType fonts please install a version of FreeType greater than
> or equal to 2.0.5.
> http://www.freetype.org
> 
> So I checked what version of freetype and it looks ok:
> 
> 
> burgandy:/home/shelms/.wine/fake_windows/MiniSoft/WS92# dpkg -p libfreetype6
> Package: libfreetype6
> Priority: optional
> Section: libs
> Installed-Size: 432
> Maintainer: Anthony Fok <foka@debian.org>
> Architecture: i386
> Source: freetype
> Version: 2.0.9-1
> Replaces: freetype0, freetype1
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4)
> Suggests: libfreetype6-dev
> Conflicts: freetype
> Filename: pool/main/f/freetype/libfreetype6_2.0.5-2_i386.deb
> 
> The application work great from a functionality stand point, It just 
> looks awfull, I am guessing because I don not have the fonts setup right.
> 
> any help please,
> Stephen
> 
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