[Wine] Dreamweaver CS3 and Wine 1.1.1

[James McKenzie]

dAnIK SeNT wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 15:06:42 jame86 wrote:
>   
>> I took the plunge and got rid of my windows machine (well I have a separate
>> HDD with XP, that I use in a "trayless tray" when needed!), and turned to
>> Ubuntu.
>>
>> I had seen things todo with wine before, and as such tried it out quite
>> quickly with Dreamweaver CS3.  As I cant be without that one for long (not
>> that I cant write the scripts!).
>>
>> I was happy to see thismornings Wine update, pitty it broke dreamweaver!
>>
>> It caused DW to only run once per "boot of ubuntu", and when it did the
>> screen mapping was off, so much that the title and status bars were off the
>> screen.  I tried to roll back wine, but didnt get very far.  So removed
>> wine, and reinstalled it (latest) along with DW, and now all seams fine.
>>
>> Any ideas??
>>
>> Damingo
>>     
>
> Updating to new wine version is always a bit dangerous, particularly in case 
> you update an existing wine prefix. Even if there are no obvious regressions 
> in new version (that is unlikely, to be honest :-)), there are always changes 
> in data layout within wine prefix which breaks installed programs much more 
> often that anyone might want. So, there is a serious reason for NOT using 
> your distribution's wine version from repository to run mission-critical 
> applications.
> I follow simple rule: one application - one dedicated wine prefix and one 
> dedicated wine version, all contained in single directory, stable and tested. 
> So brand new Wine from package repository cannot break my applications every 
> second time I update it. About 60-80 Mb overhead for each program is not that 
> high price for stability.
>
> It's really not that difficult:
>
> 0. To avoid errors I strongly recommend to _delete_ your system wine package 
> and move your existing .wine prefix to some safe place. It could save you 
> some time and nerves :-)
>
> 1. Download any wine version that run your application pretty good here:
> http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/archive/index.html
>
> 2. Unpack it. You will need some archiver that supports .deb and .lzma. 
> Alternatively, you can probably use dpkg with '--unpack' option to 
> unpack .deb package to custom location, but I don't know how to do it 
> exactly, because I hate deb-based distributions like Ubuntu ))) 'man dpkg' 
> will surely help.
>
> 3. Now we need to tell the system to use our custom version of Wine instead of 
> installed via package manager (that probably don't exists already, if you've 
> followed my advice #0. If not, I suggest to reconsider now, before you 
> seamlessly break something :-)). There are some environment variables that we 
> need to set.
>
> For example, if you've placed your unpacked Wine 
> to '/home/user/wine/wine-1.1.1', the main executable will be placed 
> at '/home/user/wine/wine-1.1.1/usr/bin' directory.
> The following commands will do what we need:
>   $ export PATH="/home/user/wine/wine-1.1.1/usr/bin":$PATH
>   $ export WINELOADER="/home/user/wine/wine-1.1.1/usr/bin/wine"
>
> Note this command will only work in the scope of you current bash session - 
> until you close console window (or within a single bash script). So you have 
> to do everything from now on up until the end of my micro "manual" in the 
> current console window.
>
> 4. We have to set one another important variable - WINEPREFIX to make wine use 
> specified directory instead of standard ~/.wine for our application. That 
> will do perfectly:
>   $ export WINEPREFIX="/home/user/wine/apps/MyApplication"
>
> 5. So, we are ready to create a "bottle" for our little app:
>   $ wineprefixcreate
>   
You should use wineboot at this point.  wineprefixcreate is deprecated 
and may be removed in Wine 1.2.

James McKenzie