Improving WINE performance, Running Win apps in Ubuntu

Sometimes happen that a window app doesn't run properly using wine.
The first thing you do in these cases is to open the winehp app database and look for a solution.
Anyway most failures happens because necessaries .dll are missing, so you have to search around the web or inside an installed windows to found them.

There's a very useful tool (script) that search and install automatically all the .dlls and fonts you (and wine) need.

The tool is WINETRICKS you could find instructions HERE directly from wine web site.

To install it type in a shell (consolle):



To run it type :



Remember that some .dlls are compressed in a cabinet file so you need to install a software to expand these files.
You can usel CABEXTRACT from HERE.

Edited by Petengy - 29/9/2008, 22:47

apt-get inside Pet, don't forget it: