[Wine] Re: Confused

yuriart10 wineforum-user at winehq.org
Thu Oct 7 22:28:41 CDT 2010


hotai wrote:
> There are two ways that I use it (I am a super limited user... I am pretty new to this stuff too.)
> 
> The easiest (and not updated the quickest) way is to use this distributable package that is maintained by Mike Kroenberg. It's just a dmg file that runs as an app.
> 
> http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/
> 
> The other way is to install it using a port database and I used this website here to do it on my MBPro.
> 
> http://davidbaumgold.com/tutorials/wine-mac/
> 
> It requires installing extra stuff that doesn't come with the pre-installed OSX.
> 
> If you want to run basic .exe and not get too deep I'd suggest the first, it's run a lot of standalone .exe's for me really easily, and installed plenty of other things fine. (Ultima Online, some light 'doze only programs)
> 
> The other allows for better optimization and workability with programs, but requires more user knowledge (which I'm trying to obtain myself.)

Thanks for sharing.







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