[Wine] need help using WINE

[Dan Kegel]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Gary Lubrani <glubrani at gmail.com> wrote:
> how do I add a program to wine? Wine comes with Notepad and that works
>  well but how do I install the e-Sword.exe I want to use?

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=1341
shows that eSword works with wine -- if you grab a few
native DLLs.  I tried it myself just now, and came up with
an easier recipe.  Try this:

First, download and install e-Sword in Wine.
Try running it.  You won't see any text in the
"tip of the day" or in the lower pane.  To
work around this problem in Wine, copy and
paste these commands into a terminal window
(careful, it's dangerous to trust strangers, but you
can trust me :-):

  wget http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks
  chmod +x winetricks
  ./winetricks riched20 msls31

This will install Microsoft Reader and then copy a needed native
dll from it.  After you do this, e-Sword should work properly.
Let me know what happens.

That page also mentions that there's a native Linux alternative,
http://gnomesword.sourceforge.net/
which you might want to look at.

Good luck,
Dan