wine users - Sep 2010 - Copying application from Windows to WINE

It's not the best way to do it, but I've no choice. I lost the installcd
of Dragon Naturally Speaking. The laptop on which I installed it goes with my
ex-wife. I want to get Dragon working under WINE on my computer.

Of course I can try to copy the whole windows partition in a wine environment,
export the registry complete, import that in wine, but that would be an
overkill. Of course the only directories I have to copy are the program
directories and the windows directory including the system and system32
subdirectories. Probably. But importing the complete registry... better not.

Is there a way to create a list of components and registry entries I need to get
it working so I can copy the needed files and entries into WINE?

Does an application exists that does this automaticly? It would be nice for
applications that can work under WINE, but where the install fails.

On 9/26/10 10:45 AM, MrZehl wrote:
> It's not the best way to do it, but I've no choice. I lost the
installcd of Dragon Naturally Speaking. The laptop on which I installed it goes
with my ex-wife. I want to get Dragon working under WINE on my computer.
>
PLEASE visit the Applications Database and review the entries for Dragon 
Naturally Speaking BEFORE installing it.  There are versions that WILL 
NOT work with Wine.  Also Susan Cragin has done much work to get this 
program working with Wine.

James McKenzie

You can try copying just the program directory, then watch
what registry entries it tries to access, copy those, and try again.

There are programs to tell you what registry settings an app's
installer makes, but you have to load them before you install the app.

Far to much registry entries. 

But it seems not necessary after all. I called Nuance and could download a new
installation set. :)