Re: Altavista better than Google for genealogy searches

"Ian Goddard" <goddai01@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> John Prentice wrote:
>> John Prentice wrote:
>>> If you do succeed in running your genealogy software, let us know - 
>>> others might like to try it too.
>>
>> I tried this using WINE in Ubuntu 8.04 ("Hardy Heron") under VMWare on
>> Windows XP, installing Family Tree Maker.
>>
>> The installer ran, but choked when it tried to install Microsoft .NET.
>> Second time around it skipped that step, and installed FTM. It stuck on
>> the "Publi****ng the [program information - can't remember the exact
>> phrase]" stage that was the last step before completion. I ran FTM, but
>> it died when it couldn't find the .NET stuff.
>>
>> So that combination (under Ubuntu) doesn't seem to work.
>>
>> John
> If it's now a .NET app maybe you could run it under Mono?
>
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