[Wine]Getting Rosetta Stone language software to work [solved]

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Mon Feb 21 03:07:25 CST 2005


Problem solved, as most of you probably already know, it was adding the
link to ~/.wine/dosdevices

Also I had to recopy the data over as the case is important and when I had
copied the data in windows it did not perserve case




> Hi, I'm trying to run a software package called Rosetta Stone (It's a
> language training package)
>
> Anyway this is the closest match in the AppDB
> http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=2497
> Though my version is 2.0.8.1N
>
> The catch of this software in general is that the CD needs to be in the
> drive for it to work.
>
> I got them to send me a version where this isn't true, but in windows it
> requires me to use the subst command so that my directory looks like a
> drive (or to create a share and use net use)
>
> So now when I launch it with wine, it tells me no language pack found,
> which is what I expect, since I'm guessing it searches A:,B:,...,Z: and if
> it doesn't find what it expects in any of those locations it gives up.
>
> Or maybe it uses whatever that registry entry is for mapped drives? I
> dunno. I'm hoping there's a way to make a link in Linux so that I can get
> this software running (it's that 2nd to last reason I ever reboot to
> Windows)
>
> I tried ln -s /directory/to/languagepack /M:
>
> And that made a link, but didn't alleviate the problem.
> I tried ln -s /directory/to/languagepack M:
> and that failed as expected
> I tried ln -s /directory/to/languagepack ./M: in the application
> directory, and that failed as well (not as I expected)
>
> My wine version is 20041201 running on Debian Unstable
>
> Thanks for any help. (Sorry for being long winded, figured better too much
> info than too little.)
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