Other Help Topics :: Install/Run Wine From DSL?

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

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.

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

original here.