[Cialug] Newbie Question

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 02:05 -0600, Jeff wrote:
> First, as far as I can tell, I've 
> installed Wine, but cannot find it in the applications menu and don't 
> know how to launch it. I use  a wysiwyg program that is windows based 
> and would like to try it using it within Ubuntu, but am not sure how to 
> do it. 

Well, I use a few windows programs, and I've found it worth the money to
buy Crossover Office. Even if you don't want to buy their product, since
it's just a commercial version of wine, you can use their database to
see if the program you use has much chance of working.
www.codeweavers.com

> I also am looking for a program to make copies of my movie DVD's 
> but am not sure which one to use. 

I've heard that k9copy is good. http://k9copy.sourceforge.net/ I've
never used it, but Mark Pilgrim says it's good: http://diveintomark.org/

> And I want to install the Real media 
> player to view video on websites I frequent, but not sure what "package" 
> I need to install a "bin" file.

You can install this quite easily by using the Canonical commercial
repository:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RealplayerInstallationMethods

Or, for an even easier way, go to Applications, Add/Remove, search for
"Real"

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