Mark Fraser wrote: > On Saturday 29 March 2008 18:23:32 Gavin Ford wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 06:12:51PM +0000, Tony Arnold wrote: >>> If you do, you might want to consider using a VM technology such as >>> VirtualBox or VMware to get an instance of Windows rather than dual boot. >> Another alternative is WINE, that way you may not need a copy of Windows at >> all. >> > > My biggest concern at the moment from looking at > http://www.huish.somerset.sch.uk/help.htm is their reliance on Textease > Documents. I've tried running TeView under wine, but it doesn't work. >
I managed to get it to work (at least the 30 day Demo version), what it does is install some dll's into ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Softease What I did was copy these dll's into ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Softease/Textease\ 6/ It runs very slow though (and that's with a quad core CPU and 4GB ram!!!). Not sure if it's either badly written or if it just isn't supported by Wine very well. It also complains that I don't have the Arial font installed, so I presume that it needs the msttcorefonts package installing. To be honest, after looking at the speadsheet, I bet I could do something like the examples included in OpenOffice in 5 minutes. I wonder if it's worth us trying to find out whats required for the Key Stages (say 1 to 3) and seeing if we can't between us all put together some templates in OOo? (or if anyone's any good at programming, maybe put together a couple of applications). Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
