running glossa under wine

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You can find glossa here: http://athirdway.com/glossa/

I’ve found it a helpful online presentation of Lewis and Short, and a downloadable offline version is available. Installing this under Windows is easy, but there is no Linux version.

Nevertheless Glossa can be made to run under wine, in Linux. Here is how I did it.

  1. Use winetricks to install the Adobe Air runtime environment. You’ll find it in winetricks under "Install a Windows DLL or component. To learn more about Adobe Air, see:

http://www.adobe.com/products/air/faq.html

  1. Get the Glossa program files (see Note below). I got my from my own Windows install at:
    C:\Program Files’/Glossa
    sudo ls /mnt/temp/‘Program Files’/Glossa
    Glossa.exe glossa.s3db icons img main.html META-INF mimetype script

  2. Put them in a convenient place. For testing purposes, I put them at /tmp/Glossa.

  3. Test: wine /tmp/Glossa/Glossa.exe & # works for me!!

Note: Pulling the Glossa files off my Windows install was a last resort. I couldn find any other way to get them.