wine users - Jan 2009 - Running Portable Photoshop with Wine

Hey everyone, I'm new to this forum and new to Linux and anything having to
do with it. I'm actually trying to solve a friend's problem. My
apologies if anything I'm about to say turns out to be grossly ignorant...

My friend is running Kubuntu on a Aspire One that has about 500 megs of space on
it, most of which is taken up by the OS I'm assuming. She seems to have less
than 10 megs of space left on her computer but wants to be able to run Photoshop
on it. Due to the lack of space one of the things that comes to mind is running
Portable Photoshop CS2 (the version I hear works best these days) using WINE.
However I think the WINE install might be too big for her laptop and she
certainly wont be able to fit even the 26 meg version of Photoshop on it.

Is there somehow (though I doubt it) a small (say under 8 megs) install of WINE?

Can she even run Portable Photoshop CS2 from a flash drive with WINE if she can
manage to install it on her laptop?

Can WINE be run from a flash drive and would the above question be possible
while running WINE from a flash drive?

It's out of the scope of this board but if none of the above will work if
someone could pm me a solution if they have one I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks in advance for anyone who replies to this.

MobileSilence wrote:
> Is there somehow (though I doubt it) a small (say under 8 megs) install of
WINE?
Not really. Wine is a big app. Just take a look at the size of... any windows
version.


MobileSilence wrote:
> Can she even run Portable Photoshop CS2 from a flash drive with WINE if she
can manage to install it on her laptop?
If she maps it as a drive in winecfg and installs PS onto it. I don't see
why it shouldn't work.


MobileSilence wrote:
> Can WINE be run from a flash drive and would the above question be possible
while running WINE from a flash drive?
Sure, Wine can be installed anywhere. The trick is to actually install Wine
there - it's not a single file, so you can't copy it. If you compile
Wine on another PC, just specify:

Code:
./configure --prefix=/media/my_flash_drive/wine
....
make install


Then run it from there using the full path:

Code:
/media/my_flash_drive/wine/wine notepad