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I've been fiddling with Wine for a while now trying to get various applications that use Chinese text to display correctly, despite my best efforts and copious googling I cannot fix it. For example I try to install the QQ application and all the text is gibberish. Is there anyway to change the locale/encoding setting of Wine? I know in Windows one must tell it to use Chinese encoding.

Hello list I have installed Maple 6 with no problems. It even put a shortcut on my Kubuntu Dapper Desktop but when I run Maple, I could see the splash screen then everything disappears. I don't know if this means that Maple 6 crashes. Any idea of troubleshooting? -- OOzy Kubuntu-Dapper

Hello there,, My self is MANISH KUMAR <http://astriskmanish.wordpress.com/>, i m a some wat new user of LINUX , presently i am using UBUNTU 6.06 Dapper Dark. So some how i need a indian msnger named as REDIFF BOL<http://messenger.rediff.com/newbol/>, on this ubuntu. i have searched a lot on GOOGLE,, then i got some idea abt i can configure it by using WINE. So can any one tell me what

Hi all, Quick couple of questions... 1) Will Ubuntu run the Wine emulator? and 2) Will Outlook 2003 function under the emulation without a whole lot of headache? THANKS for any help you might provide. Travis

i just installed wine and want to use the "Merrian-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary". the installation of this on-line dictionary seemed okay, but when we went to launch it, it failed and reported following error: -------------------- Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not accessible. err:module:import_dll Library MSVCIRT.dll (which is

Hi, I've installed a program made for windows that is developed by our company. I installed the system on Ubuntu (Dapper Drake) using Wine. All other functions work fine, but when I tried to view the reports that were made by Crystal Reports the program displays the message "Application-defined or object-defined error." Any advice on how to get this work??? Thanks! Here is a copy

Hello everyone, First of all, I apologize for my poor English. I am a beginner with Wine and I am already astonished by the possibilities given by such a software. In fact, I got a VB application that I want to use under my Ubuntu Dapper Distrib. This application is based on the creation of some objects as : - scripting.filesystem - scripting.dictionary - msxml2.serverXMLHTTP -

Hello, I've installed the Nokia Series 40 Theme Studio with Wine on Ubuntu Dapper but can't find how to launch it. I've searched through the file system but can't find any trace of the app. What I am missing ? Thanks. -- kael

Hello, I am new to Ubuntu (Linux in general) and I am trying to install R: so far, I am stuck. I have followed the instructions at the CRAN website with little luck. I read an exchange about the same issue posted before, but did not give me enough information to solve things by myself, hence, this email. Based on the former exchange I read, I am trying to include enough information to see if

I live in Bangladesh and have just installed Ubuntu dapper drake onto my shiny new desktop. The village where I live has no land lines or broad band so I connect to the internet through my old laptop using a GPRS mobile phone and Nokia PC suite run on Windows XP. I want to download wine onto my new computer so I can run PC suite and can continue accessing the internet via mobile but using

Dear r-sig Debian list, I subscribe to the 'r-help' forum but as requested on the "Download and Install" section of CRAN I am reporting a suspected bug on the " bin/linux/ubuntu dapper/" installation binaries, I show an extract from my Ubuntu(dapper) terminal console below---- # Attempted unsuccessful installation copy from terminal-- root at ubup:/etc/apt# sudo

I keep encountering the following error on Ubuntu Dapper 6.06 LTS amd64. It seems to happen from time to time. Does any one know what this is and if there is a way to fix it? Nov 29 01:19:14 <hostname> kernel: [221867.166529] (11588,0):ocfs2_lock_create:818 ERROR: Dlm error "DLM_IVLOCKID" while calling dlmlock on resource M000000000000000593c7cc33386710: bad

[For those on both this and samba-technical - sorry for the duplication. I meant to send this here, but I experienced a user error. :-) ] I'm having a problem related to the NT_STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND error and I am having a little difficulty discovering what this means. [root@monkey admin]# smbclient \\\\dapper\\dfs mypassword -U Myuser -E -W CISNET -D home\\staff\\fran -d0 -Tqca

Dear R-users, I'm using Ubuntu dapper, which only have R of Version 2.2.1. Would anybody tell me how to install the latest version of R with Synaptic in Ubuntu dapper system. Thanks!

Hi all, I'm running on an Ubuntu 64 bit OS. Would like to install Wine. But after successfully updating my sources.list file by adding deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt dapper main I click refresh, getting this error: http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/dists/dapper/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz 404 Not Found A bug? A what? How can I fix this?!

I've installed Samba 3.0.22 on my Ubuntu Dapper release. I need Samba di be able to share some information with Windows XP. On my portable PC is installed Ubuntu and on my fix PC in installed Windows XP. I need to see the infomation on my fix PC with the portable one. Before upgrading my Ubuntu from Breezy to Dapper I had no problem. Now I can't see the windows network. In particular,

Hi, I had the same experience as Jacint and had to downgrade libshout to the dapper version. I also found that I had to downgrade icecast2 from 2.3.1-3 (edgy) to the dapper version 2.3.1-2 in order to actually view the streamed video. Karim

Hi all, Daniele Favara was kind enough to package Xapian (and Pinot :-) for Dapper and Xubuntu. I understand Daniele used cdbs to build these packages. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/cdbs I am not sure if the differences with the official packages built for Debian and Breezy are significant... Anyway, if you would like to give them a go, add the following to your sources.list : deb

I''ve recently upgraded my box from Ubuntu Breezy to Dapper, and for the life of me can''t figure out why I''m getting this exception thrown. I''ve switched from Switchtower to Capistrano, and when I run rake deploy I get this output: ** [update_code] exception while rolling back: NameError, uninitialized constant Net::SSH::Transport::OSSL

Hello, This is a question for folks who are using Ubuntu to host your Rails apps. Which version of Ubuntu do you use? Do you use the ''Dapper'' release (6.0.6) perhaps due to the long term support (LTS), or are you using the latest release ''Feisty'' (7.0.4)? Or maybe a better way to ask the question is, is there a preferred version of Ubuntu to use with Ruby