On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 08:23:48PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
2. If that doesn't work, try Irfanview on Windows.
Ok, might have to do something like that eventually. Thanks for the suggestion.
FYI, some versions of Irfanview are known to work in some versions of wine. AFAICT, read "some" as "most". http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=163 see also a list of Graphics Viewers: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=category&iId=18&sAction=vie... BTW, debian's wine is still really ancient. you can find up-to-date wine packages for debian at: http://dev.carbon-project.org/debian/wine-unstable/ they're packaged by a debian developer, Kai Wasserbäch <curan@debian.org>. I have no idea why they're not NMU-ed into main or why he doesn't just take over the wine packages. i haven't used wine for several months (since around wine 1.3.34...i built a win7 box after my last HW upgrade, just for games), but I used to use this simple sh script to fetch the latest amd64 binary packages from this site (it's not an apt repo) ---cut here--- #! /bin/bash mkdir -p ~/dl/wine-unstable cd ~/dl/wine-unstable #ARCH=i386 ARCH=amd64 URL='http://dev.carbon-project.org/debian/wine-unstable/' FILES=$(lynx -dump -listonly "$URL" | \ egrep "\.dsc|_$ARCH.deb" | \ awk '{print $2}' | \ egrep -v -- '-dbg|-dev') VERSION=$(echo $FILES | sed -e 's/ /\n/g' | grep '\.dsc' | sed -e 's/[^ ]*_//' -e 's/\.dsc.*//') if [ ! -d "$VERSION" ] ; then mkdir "$VERSION" pushd "$VERSION" for f in $FILES; do snarf $f done echo now run as root: echo " dpkg -iGROEB $(pwd)/*.deb" popd else echo "Latest version ($VERSION) already downloaded" fi ---cut here--- the first time you fetch them, you'll probably need to manually install the following packages: libwine-alsa-unstable libwine-bin-unstable libwine-cms-unstable \ libwine-gl-unstable libwine-gphoto2-unstable libwine-ldap-unstable \ libwine-openal-unstable libwine-print-unstable libwine-sane-unstable \ libwine-unstable wine-bin-unstable wine-unstable on amd64, you'll also need various i386 compatibility libs, including libc6-i386, ia32-libs, and (i think) ia32-libs-gtk. and nvidia-glx-ia32 if you are using the proprietary nvidia-glx drivers, or fglrx-glx-ia32 for the proprietary amd/ati drivers. i have absolutely no idea how well wine works with the opensource ati or nouveau drivers. all i know is that it works extremely well with nvidia-glx. on i386, just modify the script to fetch the i386 binaries rather than amd64. anyway, after that, future updates can be installed with the 'dpkg -iGROEB' command that the script prints for convenient copy-and-paste. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>