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PlayOnLinux

wine-review.blogspot.com — PlayOnLinux (POL) is a python-based frontend (with bash install scripts) to install windows programs in Wine. Originally, the program's purpose was to let new linux users install their favorite windows games with ease. the program has evolved to include office-based windows programs (such as MSOffice 2003), and DOS based programs with DosBox.

Who dugg this? Made popular Jan 17, 2008

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  • TomWickline, on 01/17/2008, -0/+23Hello,
    From our testing it works very good.. You can install multiple versions of Wine at once, So if you have a app or game that use to work but quit due to a regression in Wine. This tool with a script will fix that problem. This was you can say POL supports app/game on version XXX of Wine and then if the app/game quits working in the next release you can use both releases at the same time. It installs each Wine release in its own bottle :D
    The tool also has support for DosBox and IEs4Linux..
  • mikedoth, on 01/17/2008, -0/+22Dug for...
    1. Gaming in Linux
    2. Use of Python
  • Vorsic, on 01/17/2008, -0/+20Doesn't UT already run on Linux?
  • oobuntu, on 01/17/2008, -0/+13Hey this looks pretty good. Anyone who has been using this for a while have any comments (good or bad)?
  • inactive, on 01/17/2008, -0/+11http://xkcd.com/353/
  • optikknight, on 01/17/2008, -1/+11Ever heard of WineDoors?
  • inactive, on 01/17/2008, -3/+13WINE IS NOT an EMULATOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • inactive, on 01/17/2008, -0/+8WINE's AppDB is a sweet helper for your questions Ninjao.
    WoW 2.3.0: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=v ...
    CoD4: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=a ...
    Crysis: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=a ...
  • clintcan, on 01/17/2008, -0/+6Just want to let you know, their installation repositories rely on contributions. So if you have any installation scripts for games or programs you would like to share, just click on the "Send your own script" link on their website. This would be a good way to let people who are new to Linux run their programs in windows easily. Also, if there are scripts you see that require updates (like the IE or the WOW installation scripts), you can post on their forums. That would help them a lot as well in maintaining the quality of their install scripts.
  • positron, on 01/17/2008, -0/+6WINE = Wine Is Not an Emulator
  • YourFuzzyGod, on 01/17/2008, -0/+6I think you missed the point. Wine != Windows.
  • maeon3, on 01/17/2008, -3/+8Needs more cowbell.
  • clickwir, on 01/17/2008, -0/+5Scroll down to under the comments. WINE DOORS! Poof. It's magic I tell you. RTFA! :-)
  • plizard, on 01/17/2008, -1/+5how did you even find a company still offering dialup?
  • jasutton, on 01/17/2008, -0/+4Looks like the debs don't detect what language you have set, so it defaults to what looks like French...
  • YourFuzzyGod, on 01/17/2008, -0/+4CO is commercial and proprietary; POL is free and open source.
  • GeigerRulesBig, on 01/17/2008, -0/+4Dugg for Linux and gaming on Linux.

    I installed this package on my Ubuntu system, just to try it out. They supply a Debian package, which is nice for Ubuntu users. They also have the straight up tarball in case you need to make your own install.

    The package installed nice. However, when I first started it up (located as PlayOnLinux in the games section of the Ubuntu application toolbar) it started asking me if I wanted to download updates. I think that is what it asked me anyway, since it was all in French. I do not know how to change the language yet, so hopefully I can do that. The language issue needs to be addressed. If you download the package from their page, while viewing in English, it should download and install the package as English. Just a bad quirk that inhibits newbies and non bilinguists.

    I hope to use this to get a better Starcraft install than the one I manually made via Wine. There are a lot of games supported with scripts, here is a list of all the scripts for all the games they have so far. http://www.playonlinux.com/en/scripts.html

    It is a good idea, just needs some more work. Definitely worth checking out, even for a newbie.


    -Geiger
  • JorgeGT, on 01/17/2008, -0/+4you can't *recognize* french? :S
  • MacGyver2210, on 01/17/2008, -0/+4I'm waiting for something that allows me to load my second WinXP partition under Linux as a virtual machine. I would like that a lot.
  • iDoraemon, on 01/17/2008, -0/+4Hmm...this might be an interesting alternative to having a dual boot.
  • Ademan, on 01/17/2008, -0/+3WoW works, COD4 works, but apparently BARELY, but hopefully that will be solved soon. UT, I assume you're talking about ut3, again, barely runs, and crysis has been made to run, but again it's slow. My understanding is that d3d9 performance has been crippled somehow, but this should be fixed soon (hopefully, although I haven't tried it with the latest release, it might have already been fixed) But just to give an idea of the difference switching from d3d9 to d3d8 for half life 2 based games universally brought my fps from around 30, sometimes lower, to 50ish. that was with 0.9.50 though, so again, things may have changed even since then.
  • Stonekeeper, on 01/17/2008, -2/+5For some reason, I thought you were talking about vista
  • inactive, on 01/17/2008, -2/+5Sweet! Finally a program that works without the use of GTK! One question though, how well does it work without internet access? (I am restricted to dialup) Can I install multiple copies of WINE, from within POL, using local copies of the package or source?
  • l1wulf, on 01/17/2008, -1/+4ROFL, not only that, look at the damn graphic that's linked here on Digg... If it wasn't sad, it'd be amusing.
  • inactive, on 01/17/2008, -1/+4WHY are you using Office 2007?!? The .*.*x formats are supported under Office XP/2003 via this plugin: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa ...
  • inactive, on 01/17/2008, -1/+4god damnit... >.>
  • sirhomer, on 01/17/2008, -0/+3It actually automates the install so you don't click Next Next Next or whatever. :)
  • 000dom000, on 01/17/2008, -0/+3just installed. originally in french so had to change the language, also a lot of sections have not been translated. gona try to reinstall my buggy orange box which is rather slow under my current wine configuration and see if it makes any difference
  • YourFuzzyGod, on 01/17/2008, -0/+3If you are running Debian or a Debian based distro (i.e. Ubuntu) there is a deb package on the website that installs it for you. It's just a easy if not easier than running an .exe file.
  • Ninjao, on 01/17/2008, -0/+3Sounds sweet, ide love to hear how this work with the popular games? I'de do testing myself but my Nix laptop is in for repairs.

    ie: WoW, UT, CoD4, Crysis?
  • Ashex, on 01/17/2008, -0/+3Vmware convertor > Vmware workstation
  • TechCF, on 01/17/2008, -0/+3When I read the headline, I hoped this was a "Games for Windows" thing for Linux.. a sticker for game publishers to use on their boxes...
  • atdigg, on 01/17/2008, -0/+3VMWare can do that, you need to create two hardware configuration in Windows though.
  • ooblez, on 01/17/2008, -0/+3great potential here, deals with the situation that some newby users get stumped because certain windows programs need special configuration.
  • rpapi100, on 01/17/2008, -0/+3Interesting, might try it out, if this works with games, this might be a tipping point for me. Considering gaming and MS office 2007 are the only reasons I'm still with Windows on my main machine, this might be the last piece of the open-source puzzle for newbs like me. Anyway, when this is standard in ubuntu and other mainstream linux distro's we can all move on to the whole PR aspect much needed in open-source.
  • MacGyver2210, on 01/17/2008, -0/+3Sure does. My copy of UT2004 has an install shell script right on the root of the disc. Runs beautifully. My only problem is that the NVidia drivers aren't the greatest for Linux right now, it takes a lot of finicking to get them to work right with the beefier games through wine.
  • hunterkil, on 01/17/2008, -1/+3jsands >> yeah.. but no where near any 3d Acceleration...
  • inactive, on 01/17/2008, -0/+2Well... Random luck, patience, and I'm cheap. I make heavy use of the free DSL hotspots around here for the 10MB+...
    I'm using Fry's $5.99 deal (FU Netzero!), and regularly get speeds of 6-10KB/s. 'Tis PPP compatable, so even DOS can have access to the net. ;P
  • CrossCrucial, on 01/17/2008, -0/+2yes, yes it does. Also, WoW works with wine. CoD4 I guess is mostly supported by wine.......and Crysis...don't think so. lol
  • andyakadum, on 01/17/2008, -0/+2For WoW and CoD4 try Winedoors.
  • billmccartney, on 01/17/2008, -1/+3But... it uses wxWindows (AS SEEN IN THE ARTICLE) and in Linux wxWindows uses GTK!!! So it is most definitely a GTK app, just not directly :P
  • inactive, on 01/17/2008, -0/+2Actually, I am, but to set the record strait, I am partial to Blackbox and make heavy use of the QT environment from there. But I _LOVE_ GIMP ('tis beyond annoying to see an image that needs editing and have only access to other programs out there on any system.), so I have GTK floating behind the scenes in my system.

    Whatever the case, the main reason why I stated that, is because I've found some WINE helper apps that royally screwed up my system because I don't have Gnome.
  • inactive, on 01/18/2008, -0/+2Have you heard of the OxygenOffice Professional project? It upgrades the OOo project and has the clipart (and more) that you mention.
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/ooop
  • spyrochaete, on 01/18/2008, -1/+3Have you tried 2007? It's great.
  • sirhomer, on 01/17/2008, -0/+2http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48SjVdUTwdo

    Office 2007 running on Wine
  • brettalton, on 01/18/2008, -0/+2Well, it seems to me that Wine needs a front-end, so why don't they merge Wine, Wine-doors and PlayOnLinux into a front-end for Wine? Wouldn't that make the most sense?

    PS: For those of you who aren't aware, yes, it's that much easier to merge programs thanks to open source :)
  • inactive, on 01/18/2008, -0/+2I did for more than 3 months, and wish that OOo would implement the "ribbon" as an option. Hmm, need to do some searching on it...
  • inactive, on 01/18/2008, -0/+2In answer to the comment above this one, I noted that I use GTK, but prefer QT.
  • justcallmejim, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1Some applications require a bit of tweaking to get them to work in wine. Many of them require knowledge about how wine and the application work. The kind of knowledge that the end user should not need to care about. It is not always as "simple" as "wine setup.exe"

    But then I suppose you already know that since everything is so simple to you.
  • mirzmaster, on 01/18/2008, -0/+1What's the advantage of running Orange Box under Wine? As I understand it, Wine only emulates Direct X up to version 7. Doesn't this equate to very poor visuals in Steam games?
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