I understand this is possible. I am having trouble with the forum search finding anything relevant. Is there a thread that tells me how to configure wine for running portableapps?
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A default install of Wine on Ubuntu will allow the PortableApps.com Platform to work out of the box. If running from an external drive, you may need to be sure to mount or remount with exec instead of noexec so executables (Windows and Linux) can run off the external drive.
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I read something in a g+ thread saying that it isn't compatible with linux because of wine and basically how wine isn't really that good, meaning it does not offer full functionality, or true linux compatibility. Is there something to be done about that?
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also, what is the basic command to remount a removable drive with exec privileges? Sounds like that is all I am missing.
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These are all Windows apps, as is our platform. That's why you need Wine. The portable software on Linux idea never really took off, mainly because most machines you encounter won't be running it.
Wine works better all the time and is under active development. I think you can run it from a command line using
wine /path/to/this.exebut I'm not sure. There is discussion of it here. I only run it locally for testing purposes, so don't know myself.Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
that site should be good enough for me, once i figure out what they are talking about. lol.
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