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Grogster Admin Group  Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9610 |
Wow! A lot of replies! Thanks everyone!  On a couple of specific points: @ tgerbic: YES - typing wine at the command prompt DOES report as you asked, so it is in there and functioning. I had not thought about right-clicking the Windoze EXE and selecting run with WINE, which works! There is now an entry in the right-click menu at the top to allow that to happen. Wine wanted to install a few more dependencies, but I let it do that, and that done, the Windoze app runs up fine. @ Volhout: I wanted the most recent stable of wine, as the Mint installer does not install the latest version. Does not matter if I update the package manager, it still wants to install an older version of Wine, and videos on YouTube etc, suggested installing using the winehq website instructions and the console, so you get the latest stable. @ everyone: I was wanting to experiment with my CAD software again using the latest stable of wine, and although they DO run in Wine, they are still unstable as they were before under an earlier version of Wine. They work fine, but then can just lock-up and freeze for no apparent reason when I click on something. I was expecting this, so that is nothing new, but I was hoping maybe the latest wine stable might have fixed that. The next thing to do, is install XP SP3 in a VM, and install the CAD software into that, cos the CAD software seems to run just fine inside a VM, but interfacing things like USB sticks under Mint, into the VM are a configuration nightmare that I have never been able to get working, but I might have another go. Wine is preferable for its simplicity, but if I have to use a VM, then a VM it will have to be. XP SP3 runs very fast in a small VM, and is all I need to run the CAD software. The idea being that I can run the XP VM on one monitor, and the rest of Mint on the 2nd monitor - the best of both worlds.  EDIT: I found a good video here showing how to setup the VM extensions specifically on how to get USB flash drives working, so I will try that. Time index 16:56 for the USB flash-drive stuff. Edited 2021-12-08 09:31 by Grogster Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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| Volhout Guru  Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 5091 |
@Grogster, One final thing you can do is look at PlayonLinux. Playonlinux is a set of pre-defined Wine settings for certain windows programs. If your CAD software is in their support list, then they will preset Wine to the settings your CAD software runs best. Maybe Wine (now) defaults to some settings that makes it run less stable. PlayonLinux know this and may have better setting. PlayonLinux originally supported games, but now supports much more (like Photoshop etc...) Only when your CAD software is supported. PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 7938 |
IIRC NanoCAD 5 ran ok under wine on Mint. Only 2D and very much like an old version of AutoCAD LT, but it's free. I use it all the time under Windows. It was the best free CAD software I could find - and I tried quite a few. It will save & load DXF and DWG, in fact I've swapped files between it and AutoCAD LT many times so I know the compatibility is good. Edited 2021-12-08 18:13 by Mixtel90 Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| Grogster Admin Group Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9610 |
I will look into PlayOnLinux also - I seem to remember the name of that last time I was playing around with WINE. Further to the YT video link I posted above, I now have a minimal XP SP3 VM(network disabled so it can't get on the net via Mint), with all the CAD software installed and working great, so I think I will just do it that way, and run the VM on the 2nd monitor etc. I have only assigned the XP VM 256MB of RAM, and it runs the three or four CAD softwares perfectly, quickly, and I now have the USB hosting working, so a flash-drive plugged into Mint, the XP VM can see and can talk to - yay! Also have a shared folder linked to a folder in Mint, so I can copy files between the two that way also if I need to. The only thing I need to do now, is get the XP VM to see the USB printer, but that's next, and I am hoping that will be easy enough now that the USB flash-drive is working via a command I had to execute at the terminal as documented in the video: sudo usermod -aG vboxusers graeme I am hopeful that once I connect my local USB printer, Mint will pick it up and install it, and then I should be able to present it to the XP VM via the USB connection. That's next. Wish me luck! Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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