Best way to to run Windows programs in Puppy?

[FCVPI99]

i have been a FORCED die hard windows guy for years and years

i played around with Suse 9.3 years ago for only about a month

now i found puppy i live it

i know nothing about linux

i do know this puppy take .PET files and linux programs have
dependencies

now my problem im trying to run a few windows programs

Win 96 Win 97 and Win 500 (all police scanner radio softwear)

i have a P4 2.8
1GB Ram
120 GB HDD with puppy installed on it 1GB Swap the rest EST3

can anyone tell me what version of wine i need to work
and where to get all dependencies

or of a VM Program so i can run windows that way

all this i have searchd is like puppy 2.X and says put file
into /usr/home or something like that

please somebody help

atid also like to run streets and trips with GPS is there a linux
program like it??

[playdayz]

To try to run windows programs, what I do is to install the wine pet from

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=26717

and then download the windows program installer. Go to the directory where the installer is and then Right-Click, choose Window, choose Terminal Here. In the terminal type "wine installer-program-name.exe" no quotation marks.

It works more often than I would have imagined. If you are really lucky wine will place a .desktop file in your root directory. If so, clicking that is usually the best way to start your program. Otherwise try wine "C:\\Program Files\\folder name\\exe name.exe" This time do use the quotation marks.

If it doesn't work, you might try typing "winecfg" in a terminal, and changing the type from Winxp to win98 and doing it all again.

[Béèm]

Wine would gives the best performance.
Some windows applications run quicker in Wine then in Windows even.

[FCVPI99]

ok it wont let me download the wine 1.1.2 file

[FCVPI99]

ok so i found a download for Wine

http://puppylinux.ca/bugs/wine-1.1.2.pet


i installed xorg_xorg_dri-7.2.1.pet
then i installed cabextract-1.2.pet
then i installed the wine-1.1.2.pet

it all installed the wine config program came up then the pet package manager came up saying
success

but dependencies are missing

file /usr/lib/wine/wineesd.drv.so has these missing library files:
libesd.so.0

file /usr/lib/wine/wldap32.dll.so has these missing library files:
libldap_r-2.3.so.o liblber-2.3.so.0

The PETget package manager does not know what package has these libraries

any help would be great

[FCVPI99]

don't know if this has something to do with the dependencies but i restarted PC

added the win96.EXE in wine CFG and clicked in the win96.exe in a folder it started to run but then came up with

Cannot fild import; DLL may be missing, currupt, or wrong version
File"MFC42.DLL",error 126

the program im trying to run is a police scanner program that programs the radio
its a zip file with 3 files
win96.exe
win96Help.chm
WinXXCommon.dll

i tried to add the WinXXCommon.dll to the libraies page in wine CFG but it wont let me the add button is gray


also can somebody tell me where the windows folder is
i check all folders is / and cant fild it

[Béèm]

If you have windows also on the PC find the offending dll in system32 of your win installation and copy it to the system32 directory of Wine.

[FCVPI99]

where do the wine folder so i can find the system 32 folder

should i install the Wine 0.9.22 drive C and wordview PUP file

i have wine 1.1.2

[FCVPI99]

i have just burned a DVD with windows XP Pro SP3 system 32 Folder

can i just copy all DLL to wine system 32 once i find it or should i just copy the ones i need

[Béèm]

You will find the system32 directory in /root/.wine/drive_c/..........

[FCVPI99]

thank you now that i have system 32 from windows on disk its time to shut down plug puppy HDD back in and try it

[d4p]

i have a P4 2.8 1GB Ram 120 GB HDD wi ... 32 Folder
Actually you have already all conditions to run Xp in virtual machine.
Install virtualbox on your puppy & create virtual xp. From there you will find many nice things:

- No headage, where you have to put .dll files
- Nice speed
- From virtual xp you have full read&write access to Ntfs/vfat partition also ext2 or ext3.
- Virtualxp is portable on usb external Hd. It can run on any pc (2.2 Ghrz & up)

More info:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 59f426e3e6

[Bruce B]

i have a P4 2.8
1GB Ram
120 GB HDD with puppy installed on it 1GB Swap the rest EST3

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Install virtualbox on your puppy & create virtual xp. From there you will find many nice things:

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- No headage, where you have to put .dll files
- Nice speed

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Nice speed? I believe you, but I think you have a dual core processor? If so, how about a lot more speed?

You spend a lot of money on a good computer, then run it on a single processor.

The VMs make excellent use of SMP support. Honestly, if you'll run the same thing on an SMP supported Linux kernel, you'll find even more nice speed.

[Béèm]

The VMs make excellent use of SMP support. Honestly, if you'll run the same thing on an SMP supported Linux kernel, you'll find even more nice speed.

Isn't the kernel of Dingo 406 supporting SMP now?
If yes is this active at boot or is something to be done after the boot?

[d4p]

My testing was on P4(2.2Ghz), P4(2. & Amd(3200).
Higher cpu with minimum 1 Gig ram should be better.

You wont get any nice speed with dual core.
I think, the software is not capable to run on more than one core.
Not sure, I dont have dual core.

Maybe try vbox 64bit!

[Trip[ABK]]

Otherwise try wine "C:\\Program Files\\folder name\\exe name.exe" This time do use the quotation marks.

i think this may solve the current problem i am having...i just wanna play games on puppy