wine users - Sep 2009 - New member - I have Xubuntu 9.04 and want to run Tesio Power

Hi all,

I'm Cissi from Sweden, I've just recently gone from Win 2000/XP to Linux
(Xubuntu) and I love it! Will never go back!

My computer is quite special as it has a very tiny internal hard drive, only 10
GB. That causes some problems... I must really keep the installed programs at a
minimum, recently I got lots of problems with that. To make it short - I had to
go on a trip very urgently, I left my computer running with web browser open.
When I came back four days later, my internal hard drive was at 100%. That
caused me some trouble, I reinstalled Xubuntu and now it is much better. (I
might add that I was visiting my mom to install Xubuntu on her system during
those four days).

Anyway - right now I don't have Wine installed. Will install it soon again.
I really want to keep the Wine-folder as small as possible considering my tiny
hard drive.

I just love Linux and (X)ubuntu but there is one program that I can simply not
live without and that only runs in Windows. So - I would love to get some help
to get it to run in Xubuntu through Wine. I've used Winetricks (before
reinstalling Xubuntu yesterday) and I assume that I will have to use it again.

I have three choices regarding this program, I know the developer very well and
he is assisting me in every way he can. He has even installed Xubuntu on one of
his computers but as far as I know he has not tried Wine or the program I want
to use yet.

The program I want to use is Tesio Power. It is genealogy software for horses,
there is a few other programs on the market but none is as good as Tesio. I have
used it for 10 years or so. Web site: http://www.tesiopower.com/

I have an old version (that I have used with great joy until I changed to
Xubuntu) called Tesio Power 2000 on a CD. That edition is about 10 years old,
runs on old Win-versions up to XP but not Vista. Something like MS Access I
think, my database is a .mdb-file.

I have also downloaded two demo-versions that I can use if I don't get the
old TP2000 to work, these are the Thoroughbred editions of TesioPower 8 and
Tesio Express. If I use these, I can not use my old database, I have to rebuild
it (100.000 horses) but I am willing to do that - the important thing is that I
can use the software.

As I understand it, the newer editions (TP8 and TesioExpress) use .NET which I
am not that familiar with.

I really want this to work, I am very willing to put lots of time in this, but I
must at the same time keep my tiny hard drive "healthy" (i.e. far from
100%). The developer of this program is very, very nice and I can get lots of
support from him (he's been very helpful during the last 10 years). He is
all new to Linux though and I can not expect him to work a lot on getting these
programs to work in Wine. He'll definitely answer any questions I have
though.

This program is tiny and I doubt there is a market for a Linux-version, I am
probably the only one that has tried it in Linux. Even though it is no 1 in
it's field ;).

So, any suggestions?

Thanks a lot in advance!

Best wishes,
Cissi (in Sweden) http://www.sporthorse-data.com/

MVH/Our best regards 
Cissi Nyblom & H?kan Pont?n 

http://www.ponyprod.com


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Since you're using the older version of your program, which doesn't use
.Net yet, there's even a bigger chance that it might work just like it did
on windows (I experienced that never versions usually are doing worse in wine).
And as wine itself is quite small, so you shouldn't have any problems with
that either. I'd say just try it and if you find any problems, you can
always ask for help here.

Hey Cissi,

I think a clean wine installation, without any programs on it isn't any
bigger than 50 MB, so that should work for you. The earlier you try it, the
earlier any possible bugs can be fixed. And as a new 80 GB hard drive (which is
still small) is like ?30, that shouldn't be a problem I guess.

About the older version. It's always nice to get the developer to help with
getting the program to work on wine, but it's not necessary. You could also
file a bug and wait for it to be fixed, try something with winetricks or use
native dlls. There are many ways to get things to work, and I think there are
lots of people over here at the forums who can help you with that.

About the never versions. It's up to you to try and run them of course. We
can't do that for you. In case they don't work you can always ask for
help and/or file a bug and still go back to the older version if you can't
get it to work.

And isn't there any way for you to (let someone) make a script to port the
mdb files to something the never versions can also use? That would probably save
you a lot of work, but also help everyone else that uses the program. Or maybe
you can ask other people if someone has already made something like it.

Sven