Question

[ronjk2]

Saturday    October 17th, 2009

Hi and thank you for allowing me to join as an UBUNTU   "Newbie" .

I have been using Ubuntu for a few months and one by one have managed to find most of my answers.

Today I hit one that I am surprised I haven't struggled with already.

I went to a site for Contract Bridge Players to download their game software.  All of my attempts to
download and install have failed and I believe the culprit to be their using Microsoft and is incompatible
with my laptop which is 100% UBUNTU and I wouldn't trade it for anything else right now.

Is there a conversion available?  I have tried to write to them, but I doubt if it will be found and answered.

Thank you so much,

Ron Kent
970-219-8102
Ronjk2@...

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[Scott Howard-4]

Welcome to Ubuntu!

> I went to a site for Contract Bridge Players to download their game
> software.  All of my attempts to
> download and install have failed and I believe the culprit to be their using
> Microsoft and is incompatible
> with my laptop which is 100% UBUNTU and I wouldn't trade it for anything
> else right now.
>
> Is there a conversion available?

If only Windows versions of a piece of software is available, you
could try using WINE (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wine). It
allows Windows programs to run under Linux. You can also try the
program's website support forums to see if other have been successful
either getting and compiling source code (if it is available) or
installing the software with WINE.

Also, this mailing list is used for testing development releases of
Ubuntu on laptops and should not be used for support. For support,
use:
ubuntu-users@...
or see
http://www.ubuntu.com/support/communitysupport

Enjoy Karmic in a few days!
Regards,
Scott

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