wine users - Sep 2008 - Is there a way I can get an unsopported app working in Wine?

I use Ubuntu 8.0.4
I have XP installed in another partition.
I want to use Ability Office version 5 from Ubuntu.
I have installed Wine, and this seems to work - I can run other Windows apps
through it.
I can install Ability fine using Wine, and it's small launcher app works
fine - but when I run the proper Ability programs I get loads of missing DLL
errors.

Is there anything I can do to correct this issue, or is it really not worth my
while attempting anything ?

I can't find any notes in the documentation along these lines.

Harambe wrote:
> I use Ubuntu 8.0.4
> I have XP installed in another partition.
> I want to use Ability Office version 5 from Ubuntu.
> I have installed Wine, and this seems to work - I can run other Windows
apps through it.
> I can install Ability fine using Wine, and it's small launcher app
works fine - but when I run the proper Ability programs I get loads of missing
DLL errors.
> 
> Is there anything I can do to correct this issue, or is it really not worth
my while attempting anything ?
> 
> I can't find any notes in the documentation along these lines.

The FAQ has all sorts of useful information.
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-bb6a7a98ea5016383c4f81717063463e5217c3bf

There's no entry in the AppDB for version 5, but the entry for version 4 has
some comments about dlls that might be relevant.
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=5169

I guess I need to read the FAQ more thoroughly.

I have tried installing some of the DLLs through winetools and this has got the
program running further - not quite complete, but getting there.

Many thanks - I will plod on now.


Chris

Harambe wrote:
> I have tried installing some of the DLLs through winetools

That means you probable screwed up Wine beyond repair. That ... thing last
worked with Wine several years ago. And was badly breaking it then. Now ... only
god knows what all it did to your Wine.