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Dee,<br><br>A quick search shows some options others have found success with, but I haven't done myself.<br>http://linux.ittoolbox.com/groups/technical-functional/linuxadmin-l/what-to-use-to-extract-a-selfextracting-exe-5695093<br><div> </div><div>Using the localhost:631 interface to install will put the file where your system expects it, usually in /etc/cups/PPD/ with root permissions.<br><br>Regards,<br>Bob<br> </div><div id="editor_signature"></div><div>On Saturday 05/08/2017 at 6:11 am, o1bigtenor wrote: </div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 10:58 PM, Iznogoud <span><<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"><br>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"><br>Here is an example of modules on my desktop:<br><br>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><br>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><br>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>_______________________________________________<br>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota<br>tclug-list@mn-linux.org<br><a target="_blank" href="http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list">http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list</a><br><br></blockquote><br>
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