<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 10:58 PM, Iznogoud <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iznogoud@nobelware.com" target="_blank">iznogoud@nobelware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Do as Bob said, which is what I was trying to describe, but putting that<br>
"filter file" (that is what those used to be called) in the right place<br>
for CUPS. That should be easy. If you cannot do it, report back and I will<br>
give it a shot myself and give you instructions.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thank you for that very generous offer. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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By a "bonked" system I am assuming a system that had issues due to .so files<br>
being tweaked after a Wine installation, not a runtime issue. Correct? The<br>
runtime issue may be avoided by jailing the process, like Randy said. (I use<br>
LXC, not Docker.)<br>
<br></blockquote><div>By 'borked' I meant that I had an unusable system. I cannot remember exactly as <br></div><div>that was over 3 years ago just that the system was halted and I couldn't get into <br></div><div>it - - - nothing. So it was a reinstall. That was what lead to my starting to use <br></div><div>VMs - - - that level of aggravation and frustration just was too much to risk a <br></div><div>repeat. From that I also developed the habit of having all the VMs stored in a <br>certain fashion, which, on this last system upgrade, Vbox will no longer let me <br></div><div>do - - - rather it has been deciding where to put stuff. So I've started looking into <br></div><div>LXC and LXD - - - still a total noob though!<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I do NOT recommend software packages like Wine being installed with apt-get<br>
style package and dependence maintainers/installers. Take this with a grain<br>
of salt from possibly the only Slackware user here, but I install this sort<br>
of packages as "environment modules" and build them from source. Nothing on<br>
the system gets contaminated, and one can have a number of versions of the<br>
packages available for any user on demand. Wine, specifically, comes out with<br>
a new version every five minutes...<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That was what I did - - - I was using apt-get to install and there were an absolute <br></div><div>mountain of dependencies that I had to add/fiddle with and somewhere in all the <br></div><div>mess I managed to bork things thoroughly - - - vms for sure now! <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Here is an example of modules on my desktop:<br>
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iznogoud@bigpapa:~> module avail<br>
<br>
---------------------------- /opt/Modules/versions -----------------------------<br>
3.2.9<br>
<br>
------------------------ /opt/Modules/3.2.9/modulefiles ------------------------<br>
HDF5 OpenMPI Wine gcc6.3.0 modules<br>
JavaJDK OpenOffice Wine-1.8.3 module-cvs null<br>
Metis PETSc dot module-info use.own<br>
iznogoud@bigpapa:~><br>
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The "gcc6.3.0" I had built when I was describing to Mr Wood on this list how<br>
to put a hacked-up version of GCC 6.3 with certain components of GCC 7.x.<br>
<br>
In the examples above I have a number of Wine, OpenOffice, JavaJDK available,<br>
but I only have some of them visible.<br>
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Use modules; thank me later.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm - - - I'm on Debian - - - haven't run into <br></div><div>the 'module' thing yet - - - there are so many things I'm 'supposed' to know - - - <br></div><div>and there just aren't enough hours in the day to use the tools the way I need to, <br></div><div>for my business and my self, and to figure out how to install and combine the <br></div><div>tools.<br><br></div><div>Thank you for your assistance and ideas!<br><br></div><div>Dee<br></div></div></div></div>