Install/Run Wine From DSL?

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Install/Run Wine From DSL?
started by: hydravien

Posted by hydravien on Jan. 15 2007,03:21

my laptop wont run windows because of a unknown problem im working on, and i have DSL running on a livecd. I need to run a powerpoint presentation from a usb key, and the powerpoint viewer is an exe file.

can anyone give me a tutorial on how to get wine up and running?

Thanks

Nick

Posted by Nym1 on Jan. 15 2007,04:14

Hello,

I haven't used Wine to run a powerpoint viewer but I've used OpenOffice "Impress" to display "slideshows" created with MS' Powerpoint. OO Impress is included in the "openoffice.org2.0.uci" extension. It can read and write .ppt files quite accurately and there's a good chance that it will display your powerpoint "slides".
You might need to import truetype fonts for optimal rendering, though.

Good Luck.

Posted by Winter Knight on Jan. 16 2007,10:01

Here you go, to get you started with wine:
< http://www.winehq.org >
< http://www.winehq.org/site/documentation >
< http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/wine-faq/index >