Ian Goddard wrote:
> thor wrote:
>> Oedipe bibbled of :
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is it possible to make "Legacy" working on Linux with "Wine"?
>>> Any feedback of good or bad experiences welcomed :-)
>>>
>>> I'm just keeping Windows XP to run Legacy, but i've switched to Linux
>>> for every other tasks. And i found "Gramps" absolutely awfull and
bugged
>>> compared to "Legacy".
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>
>> Had to try it and find out :)
>> Works fine on my system, I have never used legacy before and am
>> stating it
>> from scratch so can't tell you if it will im****t your windows legacy
>> database. It worked fine for a gedcom created from gramps though.
>>
>> David
>
> I just tried it and it barfed trying to open the sample. Error 429,
> Activx component can't create object.
>
> An alternative approach might be to get Virtualbox and install XP under
> that. I have W2K running that way for stuff that just won't work under
> Wine.
>
If, like me, you can't get it to run under Wine you could download an
eval of crossover office and try it under that - it's not listed but may
run.
Also regarding Wine an app. might run under some releases and not
others. For instance I run Enterprise Architect under 0.9.51 but it
won't run on my hardware under later versions.
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Ian
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