Credits

Michael Pavletich
Katikati Computers
117 Main Road
Katikati
New Zealand
Ph: (07) 549 0468
Fax: (07) 549 0469
Mob: (027) 27 27 828
http://www.katicomp.co.nz

And Michael's installation instructions are as follows:

1. Install the latest version of wine from winehq.com for your distribution.
    
2. You will need to have superuser access to install wine.
    
3. If you already have a version of wine prior to the 0.9.5x versions, it must be completely removed (purged) from your system before installing the latest version.
    
4. Versions 0.9.5x and above should run quite well and should not require updating,
   though as this project is moving forward at such an alarming rate, with a new
   release every 2 weeks, we encourage all users to update.
    
5. When wine is fully installed, run winecfg from a command prompt as a regular
   user. DO NOT run this as root!
    
6. This process may take up to 3 minutes to complete, depending on the speed of
   your system the first time it is run.
    
7. When the Wine Configuration window opens, make sure you have Windows XP selected as your "system", save and close.
    
8. Download the SoEasy Installation file file and open it with wine.
    
9. If clicking it opens a dialogue asking what program to open it with, type wine into the program name dialogue box.

Installation from a command prompt is as follows.

Please do not type in the "$" at the front of the line, this is the Unix method of stating
that this command is to be run as a regular user. If the command were to be run as root, it would be indicated by a "#" symbol.

$ wine /<pathtoexecutable>

Follow the regular installation routine.

For me, the first run routine failed to setup the printer, it may have been my printer configuration, but there again, maybe not.

Most Unix systems use the Common Unix Printing System by Easy Software Products, so it might be possible to pipe the print command to the cups server.

For my testing, after installing SoEasy with wine, I located the install folder, on my testing system;
/home/mepis/.wine/drive_c/SOEASY and dropped (overwrote-all) the contents of the unpacked SoEasy accounting folder, then started SoEasy from the desktop icon provided by wine.

The windows link will not work in LInux, so wine basically remakes it and the .lnk file can be removed. SoEasy worked like a charm, though I did not attempt to set up a printer.

ISSUES AND RESOLUTIONS

Printers

27 August 2008 - We are now examining better ways in which to configure printers.
4 September 2008 - Issue has been identified and a solution is being written.

Additional Information on Printers

http://www.la-sorciere.de:80/Wine-HOWTO/wineprintconfig.html

Dialog Boxes

Generic Superbase Dialog Boxes that show a list or allow data entry (REQUEST "","",4,ansd%%,a$) cannot handle the Linux interpretation of how to size the dialog and the dialog box extends down the screen.

A re-write of such dialog boxes is under way. There are 338 of them so it will take approximately 2 days to re-write.

Installation

Linux's directory structure needs to be understood better. Our installer successfully installed SoEasy to the .wine directory but in our test we could not find it easily. However by mistake we installed our programming language to the user directory which was easy to locate so we need to train the installer to install to a simple directory structure.

Desktop Icon

Not being automatically installed at the moment but SoEasy can be found under Applications- Wine - SoEasyAccounting. You can then copy the icon to the desktop.

ask a question