I recently got a mini 1000 with linux OS. I have always used windows and didn't know what OS was on the notebook until I started playing with it. I am slowly learning about linux, (very slowly). I want to download a windows program called " brain fitness Pro" onto my Mini. It appears that I need to download Wine first to accomplish this. I believe that the mini I have uses Gnome for The GUI? Could someone tell me what I need to do & please remember I am a first grader when it comes to computers in general and haven't even started school on linux! Thank goodness for this forum. I think that one day I will like the Linux OS. Thanks Much, Joe
Joeonthelinux wrote:> I recently got a mini 1000 with linux OS. I have always used windows and didn't know what OS was on the notebook until I started playing with it. I am slowly learning about linux, (very slowly). I want to download a windows program called " brain fitness Pro" onto my Mini. It appears that I need to download Wine first to accomplish this. I believe that the mini I have uses Gnome for The GUI? Could someone tell me what I need to do & please remember I am a first grader when it comes to computers in general and haven't even started school on linux! Thank goodness for this forum. I think that one day I will like the Linux OS. Thanks Much, JoeYou didn't say what distro is installed on that Mini, but if it is some customized version of Linux created by HP, you are going to have to ask HP customer support or a user support forum specific to your netbook how to install Wine on it. If your netbook has a mainstream distro that provides Wine packages in its repository on it, you should be able to install Wine through your package manager, just as you would any other package. Links for the major distros that package Wine are on http://www.winehq.org/download/.
I believe the Distro is ubuntu(I Hope). I understand what you mean by using the package manager(but not how to yet). Thanks for the reply @ the info. I will also check with HP support.
I downloaded version 1.0 Should I uninstall and install a different version? Thanks
I also went to add /remove to see if wine was in there, but it is not. But it is installed on my system. How would I uninstall 1.0 ? Thanks a Lot
I "kinda" understand what Doug is saying(I am a white belt in linux). I uninstalled the programs and reinstalled them in terminal window. I typed gnome-terminal then my password and wine 1.3.13 was installed. At Least it shows up now on my computer. I downloaded brainfitness pro and its accompaning ink. file ok but again it won,t open. The file came with the typical set up install process, which I ran, but it still won't open and does not have any error messages. Thanks for any help. Joe