I dual boot WinXP and Fedora Linux and would like to run Agent 3.3 when
I boot to Fedora. Has anyone successfully installed WINE (codeweavers?)
on Linux and gotten the current Agent to function? What has your
experience been? What problems have you encountered?
I've seen very little discussion in the newsgroup. The web page that
Mark Prince pointed to a few years ago is no longer active:
On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 15:44:10 GMT, Mark Prince
<agentsupport@forteinc.com> wrote:
We've got a link on the Forte website to a site created by
an Agent user. It provides step by step directions for
configuring Agent with WINE. Other users have said it is
a very helpful site...
It's in our Support Section, but here's the link....
http://www.oliversampson.com/computer/#Agent
Thanks!
Dan
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 23:46:54 -0700, Dan Epstein wrote:> I dual boot WinXP and Fedora Linux and would like to run Agent 3.3 when I > boot to Fedora. Has anyone successfully installed WINE (codeweavers?) on > Linux and gotten the current Agent to function? [....]I haven't even tried, and can't tell you what you really want. But if you don't get that, you might be interested (if you don't already know) in the fact that Pan from pan.rebelbase.com, has been getting updates again. Maybe it would do what you want without the detour through M$. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Wordcrafty Squirreler, Neo- Redneck Retiree, Not Quite Clueless Power User
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 23:46:54 -0700, Dan Epstein <dseps@yahoo.com> wrote:>I dual boot WinXP and Fedora Linux and would like to run Agent 3.3 when >I boot to Fedora. Has anyone successfully installed WINE (codeweavers?) >on Linux and gotten the current Agent to function? What has your >experience been?Runs great under CrossOver Office. How well it runs under the free version of Wine depends on which distro and version of Wine. Possibly phases of the moon too:)>What problems have you encountered?Agent 3.x under older Wine or CXO versions requires one small tweak (To Wine not Agent) that 1.x and 2.x did not. CXO 5.0 and Wine back at least a year already work with 3.x (The combination listed in my sig does need this minor, but non intuitive, .dll.so swap) I have found that Agent runs slightly faster and with fewer problems on a fake Windows partition. Will work in a dual boot... I just never go "there" anymore. -- William Mandriva 10.2 linux, Cross Over Office 4.0, Athlon XP 1800+, 1533MHz, 1 GB RAM
On Mon, 01 May 2006 12:43:31 -0400, Gwen Morse <goldmooneachna@yahoo.com> wrote:>On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 23:46:54 -0700, Dan Epstein <dseps@yahoo.com> >wrote: > >>I dual boot WinXP and Fedora Linux and would like to run Agent 3.3 when >>I boot to Fedora. Has anyone successfully installed WINE (codeweavers?) >>on Linux and gotten the current Agent to function? What has your >>experience been? What problems have you encountered? > >I've been using Crossover Office (the commerical Codeweavers) package >since Redhat 9. I'm now up to Fedora Core 5. Agent works great under >it. Earlier versions had some slight visual oddness/warping in the >buttons, but, it's been looking "as good as under Windows" since Core >3 or so. It also runs just as smoothly as it looks. > >Install Agent using the "install unsupported software" options of >Crossover Office. Make sure when doing the install to select the >option that created icons/shortcuts. Then, look in your Fedora menu, >Agent should show up in a folder named something like "Windows >Applications". > >You can share an Agent data file with a windows install (if you >dual-boot) by making sure the windows drive is +rw (I store my Windows >Agent install on fat32 for just that reason). Remove the default >'Data' directory that installs for Agent in Fedora. Make a symbolic >link to the Windows Data directory, and it will share the folders. I >haven't noticed any problems or corruption when doing this. > >My only issue is that I can't configure Agent (on Linux) to find my >.sig files. I've installed Agent on the "D:" drive in Windows, and >Agent insists on being installed in the virtual "C:" drive on Linux. >So the location of my .sig files doesn't match in the config file. > >It's a small price to pay to _have_ a working Agent :). > >GwenI've installed Agent under both wine and openoffice. It seems to work just fine. I am trying to figure out one thing though: How can I launch attached files like pics or mp3s from within agent while running inside openoffice or wine? I'd like agent to use one of my linix apps to open pics, for example, (I like gwenview), but I can't seem to make that work. In Windows, I'm used to double-clicking on attachments within Agent and having them open. If I can get this functionality in agent under wine or crossover, it'll be good riddance Bill gates :) Any help would be appreciated.