mapsource on linux?

[Stelios]

has anyone done it?

before i start experiments

[davidr]

Hi Stelios,

I'm not sure that it will work as the installer for the application is written for windows OS.

I'd be interested to hear how you might do it but I'd be surprised if you can make it work.

Keep me posted

David

[Stelios]

there are some windows emulators for linux
i have done some searching and i found out that Wine (Wine HQ) can do it
not sure yet if i can connect my gps to transfer data

i will try asap (i am hell busy right now )

[davidr]

Good luck

[Stelios]

just for the record if anyone is watching this topic

project failed

after serveral tests, couldn't find any way to run mapsource under linux
i have read another way to do it -by emulating windows under linux- but that was not what i was looking for (so i didn't test it)

[davidr]

Oh well, an interesting project in any case

David

[davidr]

Hi Stelios,

I have recently been looking at a way to run iTunes on Ubuntu and I found this application which is called WINE which allows windows env to be run on top of various linux platforms to get some kind of compatibilty.

Did you try this when you wanted to run MapSource on Linux?

David

[Stelios]

yiep David

at wine homepage they say that mapsource can be run
but i always got errors when i try to run it

[davidr]

Hmm,

I'll probably also try this over the coming weeks, (after a stack of other tasks )

I'll let you know if I have any more success!

All the Best,

David

[davidr]

For anyone else reading this post, here's the link to WINE:

Wine HQ