After our club laptop (Windows) packed up, I want to get SW running on another laptop, using Ubuntu to avoid licencing problems.
Installed Ubuntu 19.04, then Wine from Ubuntu sw - gets Wine 4.0-1. Downloaded Sailwave, but the exe does not run from Files - Wine is not shown as an app to run the exe. Got SailWave installed from a command prompt, but then still can't run Sailwave due to the Wine app problem.
The DOS environment has been setup under the .wine directory - C: drive, etc.
Any suggestions? I have been using Ubuntu and Mint at home for many years without such a problem.
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Malcolm Osborne
Rondevlei, South Africa
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Further to this - I discovered that in this setup, I can click on an
existing *.blw file and it opens successfully in Sailwave.
Its *.exe that is not working.
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regards,
Malcolm Osborne
Rondevlei, South Africa
On 2019-05-01 00:10, Malcolm Osborne
[sailwave] wrote:
After our club laptop (Windows) packed up, I want to get
SW running on
another laptop, using Ubuntu to avoid licencing problems.
Installed Ubuntu 19.04, then Wine from Ubuntu sw - gets
Wine 4.0-1.
Downloaded Sailwave, but the exe does not run from Files -
Wine is not
shown as an app to run the exe. Got SailWave installed
from a command
prompt, but then still can’t run Sailwave due to the Wine
app problem.
The DOS environment has been setup under the .wine
directory - C: drive,
etc.
Any suggestions? I have been using Ubuntu and Mint at home
for many
years without such a problem.
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Malcolm Osborne
Rondevlei, South Africa
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Hi Malcolm,
I have seen your two emails. I will run through the install
process again on my Ubuntu 18.04 LTS VM and thoroughly document
the steps. I will set-up a Ubuntu 19.04 VM and try installing
Sailwave. Be later today before I get back to you though as got a
few things to do this morning.
By I recall I did have to install from the command line. Also the
install should have placed two icons on the desktop, one to open
Sailwave and the other to open the Sailwave data folder.
FYI - I have Sailwave running on the following without problems:
Kind regards,
Huw
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On 30/04/2019 23:10, Malcolm Osborne
[sailwave] wrote:
malcolmo@telkomsa.net
After our club laptop (Windows) packed up, I want to get
SW running on
another laptop, using Ubuntu to avoid licencing problems.
Installed Ubuntu 19.04, then Wine from Ubuntu sw - gets
Wine 4.0-1.
Downloaded Sailwave, but the exe does not run from Files -
Wine is not
shown as an app to run the exe. Got SailWave installed
from a command
prompt, but then still can’t run Sailwave due to the Wine
app problem.
The DOS environment has been setup under the .wine
directory - C: drive,
etc.
Any suggestions? I have been using Ubuntu and Mint at home
for many
years without such a problem.
--
regards,
Malcolm Osborne
Rondevlei, South Africa
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Huw,
Thank you. I do have the two desktop icons, but if I click on the
Sailwave one, it just opens as a text file.
No hurry for this, as its our winter closed season - have till
August before we start racing again.
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regards,
Malcolm Osborne
Rondevlei, South Africa
On 2019-05-01 08:27, Huw Pearce
[sailwave] wrote:
Hi Malcolm,
I have seen your two emails. I will run through the
install process again on my Ubuntu 18.04 LTS VM and
thoroughly document the steps. I will set-up a Ubuntu
19.04 VM and try installing Sailwave. Be later today
before I get back to you though as got a few things to do
this morning.
By I recall I did have to install from the command line.
Also the install should have placed two icons on the
desktop, one to open Sailwave and the other to open the
Sailwave data folder.
FYI - I have Sailwave running on the following without
problems:
Kind regards,
Huw
huw.pearce@bcs.org.uk
On 30/04/2019 23:10, Malcolm
Osborne [sailwave] wrote:
malcolmo@telkomsa.net
After our club laptop (Windows) packed up, I want to
get SW running on
another laptop, using Ubuntu to avoid licencing
problems.
Installed Ubuntu 19.04, then Wine from Ubuntu sw -
gets Wine 4.0-1.
Downloaded Sailwave, but the exe does not run from
Files - Wine is not
shown as an app to run the exe. Got SailWave installed
from a command
prompt, but then still can’t run Sailwave due to the
Wine app problem.
The DOS environment has been setup under the .wine
directory - C: drive,
etc.
Any suggestions? I have been using Ubuntu and Mint at
home for many
years without such a problem.
--
regards,
Malcolm Osborne
Rondevlei, South Africa
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Malcolm,
Your latest message came in while writing this reply. I address
the desktop icon issue in the following. Please let me know if it
works for you.
I found the install on Linux Mint easier.
I have created an Ubuntu 19.04 VM. The following are the steps I
did to have Sailwave and the default Sailwave data folder as icons
in the panel of favourite applications. Apologies if this more
detailed than you need but it might be helpful for others.
-
installed WINE [which is version 4.2-2]
-
click Ubuntu Software in favourites panel [orange suitcase
with capital A]
-
click down arrow under Categories to reveal more categories
-
click Utilities
-
scroll down to find WINE (Develo…]
-
click WINE (Develo…]
-
click Install button in window that pops up
-
wait while installation takes place after entering password
when prompted [password is that of the user allowed to install
software which is usually the first user added during the
install of Ubuntu]
-
Open a web browser and then access the Sailwave web site
-
Navigate to the Download section of the Sailwave web site
-
click the link of the latest version of Sailwave to down
load it [current latest version when this message typed is
v2-28-1]
-
when download complete open the folder that Sailwave was
downloaded to - typically Download
-
right click in the Download folder window and select 'Open
in Terminal’
-
a terminal window will now open
-
at the prompt in the terminal window enter the word wine
followed by a space followed by the name of the Sailwave file
downloaded for the version current when this message typed
that is sw2_28_1.exe so what should appear in the terminal is
as follows
wine sw2_28_1.exe
-
the normal windows install should proceed, so for the
defaults just press return at each window
-
two icons will be placed on the desktop but for some reason
they do not do what they should so delete them
-
click show applications located at the bottom of the panel
[ a grid of small white squares]
-
in the window that appears right click 'Browse Sailwave' and
select ‘Add to favourites’
-
now right click ‘Sailwave’ and select ‘Add to favourites’
-
two Sailwave icons appear in the Favourites panel -
unfortunately they are identical but if you hover the mouse
over them it is clear which is which
-
you can close the applications window now
-
click the Sailwave icon and Sailwave should appear
Hope that is useful.
Kind regards,
Huw
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On 01/05/2019 07:27, Huw Pearce
[sailwave] wrote:
huw.pearce@bcs.org.uk
Hi Malcolm,
I have seen your two emails. I will run through the
install process again on my Ubuntu 18.04 LTS VM and
thoroughly document the steps. I will set-up a Ubuntu
19.04 VM and try installing Sailwave. Be later today
before I get back to you though as got a few things to do
this morning.
By I recall I did have to install from the command line.
Also the install should have placed two icons on the
desktop, one to open Sailwave and the other to open the
Sailwave data folder.
FYI - I have Sailwave running on the following without
problems:
Kind regards,
Huw
On 30/04/2019 23:10, Malcolm
Osborne [sailwave] wrote:
malcolmo@telkomsa.net
After our club laptop (Windows) packed up, I want to
get SW running on
another laptop, using Ubuntu to avoid licencing
problems.
Installed Ubuntu 19.04, then Wine from Ubuntu sw -
gets Wine 4.0-1.
Downloaded Sailwave, but the exe does not run from
Files - Wine is not
shown as an app to run the exe. Got SailWave installed
from a command
prompt, but then still can’t run Sailwave due to the
Wine app problem.
The DOS environment has been setup under the .wine
directory - C: drive,
etc.
Any suggestions? I have been using Ubuntu and Mint at
home for many
years without such a problem.
--
regards,
Malcolm Osborne
Rondevlei, South Africa
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Hi Malcolm,
In some Sailwave WINE installations I’ve found that the desktop and menu shortcuts they create don’t have the correct command line. Have a look at the properties of the Sailwave shortcut on the menu.
Mine (that is working) looks like this:
env WINEPREFIX="/home/andy/.wine" wine C:\windows\command\start.exe /Unix /home/andy/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/Public/Start\ Menu/Programs/Sailwave/Sailwave.lnk
You actually don’t have to do all that if you don’t want to. You can do the same thing with:
wine “/home/andy/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Sailwave/sailwave.exe”
Obviously, replacing “andy” in this case with the name of the user account that has wine installed.
Also, if you want to automatically launch wine when you double click an .exe file, add this to the bottom of ~/.config/mimeapps.list:
application/x-ms-dos-executable=wine.desktop
Hope this helps.
Huw and Andy,
Thank you for your assistance - I've got Sailwave running on that
laptop.
Andy - I edited mimeapps.list as per your recommendation, but it
still tries to open a *.exe in Archive Manager
···
regards,
Malcolm Osborne
Rondevlei, South Africa
On 2019-05-01 16:07, [sailwave] wrote:
Hi Malcolm,
In some Sailwave WINE installations I've found that the
desktop and menu shortcuts they create don’t have the
correct command line. Have a look at the properties of the
Sailwave shortcut on the menu.
Mine (that is working) looks like this:
env WINEPREFIX="/home/andy/.wine" wine
C:\windows\command\start.exe /Unix
/home/andy/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/Public/Start
Menu/Programs/Sailwave/Sailwave.lnk
You actually don't have to do all that if you don't
want to. You can do the same thing with:
wine "/home/andy/.wine/drive_c/Program Files
(x86)/Sailwave/sailwave.exe"
Obviously, replacing "andy" in this case with the name
of the user account that has wine installed.
Also, if you want to automatically launch wine when you
double click an .ex e file, add this to the bottom of
~/.config/mimeapps.list:
application/x-ms-dos-executable=wine.desktop
Hope this helps.
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