Dee, A quick search shows some options others have found success with, but I haven't done myself. http://linux.ittoolbox.com/groups/technical-functional/linuxadmin-l/what-to-use-to-extract-a-selfextracting-exe-5695093 Using the localhost:631 interface to install will put the file where your system expects it, usually in /etc/cups/PPD/ with root permissions. Regards, Bob On Saturday 05/08/2017 at 6:11 am, o1bigtenor wrote: > > > > On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 10:58 PM, Iznogoud <iznogoud at nobelware.com> > wrote: >> >> Do as Bob said, which is what I was trying to describe, but putting >> that >> "filter file" (that is what those used to be called) in the right >> place >> for CUPS. That should be easy. If you cannot do it, report back and I >> will >> give it a shot myself and give you instructions. > > > Thank you for that very generous offer. >> >> >> By a "bonked" system I am assuming a system that had issues due to .so >> files >> being tweaked after a Wine installation, not a runtime issue. Correct? >> The >> runtime issue may be avoided by jailing the process, like Randy said. >> (I use >> LXC, not Docker.) >> > > By 'borked' I meant that I had an unusable system. I cannot remember > exactly as > > that was over 3 years ago just that the system was halted and I > couldn't get into > > it - - - nothing. So it was a reinstall. That was what lead to my > starting to use > > VMs - - - that level of aggravation and frustration just was too much > to risk a > > repeat. From that I also developed the habit of having all the VMs > stored in a > certain fashion, which, on this last system upgrade, Vbox will no > longer let me > > do - - - rather it has been deciding where to put stuff. So I've > started looking into > > LXC and LXD - - - still a total noob though! > > >> I do NOT recommend software packages like Wine being installed with >> apt-get >> style package and dependence maintainers/installers. Take this with a >> grain >> of salt from possibly the only Slackware user here, but I install this >> sort >> of packages as "environment modules" and build them from source. >> Nothing on >> the system gets contaminated, and one can have a number of versions of >> the >> packages available for any user on demand. Wine, specifically, comes >> out with >> a new version every five minutes... > > > That was what I did - - - I was using apt-get to install and there > were an absolute > > mountain of dependencies that I had to add/fiddle with and somewhere > in all the > > mess I managed to bork things thoroughly - - - vms for sure now! >> >> >> Here is an example of modules on my desktop: >> >> iznogoud at bigpapa:~> module avail >> >> ---------------------------- /opt/Modules/versions >> ----------------------------- >> 3.2.9 >> >> ------------------------ /opt/Modules/3.2.9/modulefiles >> ------------------------ >> HDF5 OpenMPI Wine gcc6.3.0 modules >> JavaJDK OpenOffice Wine-1.8.3 module-cvs null >> Metis PETSc dot module-info use.own >> iznogoud at bigpapa:~> >> >> The "gcc6.3.0" I had built when I was describing to Mr Wood on this >> list how >> to put a hacked-up version of GCC 6.3 with certain components of GCC >> 7.x. >> >> In the examples above I have a number of Wine, OpenOffice, JavaJDK >> available, >> but I only have some of them visible. >> >> Use modules; thank me later. > > > Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm - - - I'm on Debian - - - haven't run into > > the 'module' thing yet - - - there are so many things I'm 'supposed' > to know - - - > > and there just aren't enough hours in the day to use the tools the way > I need to, > > for my business and my self, and to figure out how to install and > combine the > > tools. > > > Thank you for your assistance and ideas! > > > Dee > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20170807/79eec58d/attachment.html>