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| Hi, this is nice to hear. Maybe you could write a more detailed description what is needed to run MLCad on Linux? This way I could make this information public in a seperate Linux section on my host, and even more users are able to use MLCad. (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| Pretty much, just install wine, then use it to install winzip. use wine to unpack the ldraw parts. run winzip under wine to unzip mlcad run mlcad under wine : ) There are some functions that don't work even with the latest version of Wine, but (...) (22 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| (...) why use winzip? most linux installs come with zip/unzip! so on my redhat 7.2, all I did was - download mlcad. - download the dats - unzip dats - unzip mlcad - run "wine MLCAD.EXE" (...) huh - I was running it as a non-root user. Odd. Dan (22 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| I wasn't sure if it'd work that way, but appearently it does : ) (...) (22 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| (...) Perhaps Wine wasn't set up properly? I downloaded the 20030408 CVS release, did a generic ./configure | make | sudo make install , while logged in as regular user. (22 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| (...) OK quick rundown. Required: - Working Linux system with X11+windowmanager installed (I use KDE only, but any windowmanager should work) Also check (URL) for other requirements wine itself has (gcc etc etc) I chose to work with the Wine source (...) (22 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| (...) Jusr read the Wine documentation, it appears having people use the ./tools/wineinstall script in the wine source directory is the recommended way to install Wine, instead of my description. (22 years ago, 26-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| Probably : ( I used the RPM and I'm still kind of a Linux Newbie : ) (...) (22 years ago, 27-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| Xantra47, Dan Boger, Jan-Alert van Ree I take your descriptions, insert them into a web-page as they are. Do you have any public useable email addresses where users can write to if they have troubles? Otherwice I would take that of your (...) (22 years ago, 27-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| (...) You can use javanree (at) vanree.net , no worries. (22 years ago, 27-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| (...) Sure, I'm not an expert, but I'm enthusiastic : ) My email's in the headers and not spam-proofed. -JSM (22 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| (...) use mlcad at peeron dot com Dan (22 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| Hi Xantra47, Dan Boger, Jan-Alert van Ree, could you please cross check the page I'm going to publish if the content is correct, and if you are happy with that whats in? It can be found unlinked for the moment at (URL) you, Michael "Michael (...) (22 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| (...) So we'll look forward to seeing your LDraw creations in the near future? ;) Steve (22 years ago, 1-May-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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