wine users - May 2009 - Trying to add a wine application I've added in other Ubuntu systems, but not working

I am running Jaunty in a Dell M6400 laptop. I have a collection of electronic
books with an index and search program to run searches on them. This is a
Windows-based text-index and search utility, and I have installed it
successfully using WINE in many earlier versions of Ubuntu as well as in another
computer running Jaunty. But in my DELL M6400 when I installed it, initially it
wouldn't install because it was trying to install it back onto the CD itself
which of course it had no permission to do (the CD was not rewritable). So I
reset the target location for the install, to my home directory. It then
installed fine. And the program opens fine as well, and appears completely
normal. But I cannot type anything in the search window, nor can I run any
searches. The program just sits there looking beautiful, but won't do
anything. I've never come across this before.

How can I trouble-shoot this, so as to get the program working?

Well someone on the Ubuntu support forum solved the problem. My app is working
now. For anyone interested, here is the solution:

sudo wget http://winezeug.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/winetricks
sudo mv winetricks /usr/bin
sudo chmod 777 /usr/bin/winetricks
winetricks allfonts fontfix

Swarup wrote:
> How can I trouble-shoot this, so as to get the program working?
>
>   
There are literally millions of Windows programs.  Please be specific
with the program you are trying to make work with Wine.

Name of application and where can we get it from?

James McKenzie

James McKenzie wrote:
> Swarup wrote:
> 
> > How can I trouble-shoot this, so as to get the program working?
> > 
> Name of application and where can we get it from?

Thanks for your concern. The program is a search utility made for a specific set
of yoga texts-- i.e. not a program of interest or use to the general public, and
also not a program I think which is publicly available. And as I say, I've
got it working now-- just with the above-noted quirk.