PAF on Linux via Wine?

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Robert M. Riches Jr.

PAF on Linux via Wine?

Legg inn av Robert M. Riches Jr. » 09 jan 2006 03:27:36

Has anyone succeeded in using PAF on Linux, via Wine or some
other means? The times I have tried to install PAF under
Wine, the installshield has bombed out with a report that
the installer has dereferenced a null pointer. (Motivation
for the query is my house is a Microsoft-free zone, and my
wife is going to be taking a class on PAF that may
require/encourage homework using PAF at home.)

Thanks.

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Robert Riches
spamtrap42@verizon.net
(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)

David A' Rebel

Re: PAF on Linux via Wine?

Legg inn av David A' Rebel » 09 jan 2006 04:53:36

Robert M. Riches Jr. wrote:

Has anyone succeeded in using PAF on Linux, via Wine or some
other means? The times I have tried to install PAF under
Wine, the installshield has bombed out with a report that
the installer has dereferenced a null pointer. (Motivation
for the query is my house is a Microsoft-free zone, and my
wife is going to be taking a class on PAF that may
require/encourage homework using PAF at home.)

Thanks.



I haven't managed to get it to work under wine either..Keep at it though
maybe a wine update will enable it to happen, in the mean time try out
Gramps which is a native linux genealogy program.

Robert M. Riches Jr.

Re: PAF on Linux via Wine?

Legg inn av Robert M. Riches Jr. » 09 jan 2006 05:54:24

On 2006-01-09, David A' Rebel <dakar@tscii.enzed.corn> wrote:
Robert M. Riches Jr. wrote:

Has anyone succeeded in using PAF on Linux, via Wine or some
other means? The times I have tried to install PAF under
Wine, the installshield has bombed out with a report that
the installer has dereferenced a null pointer. (Motivation
for the query is my house is a Microsoft-free zone, and my
wife is going to be taking a class on PAF that may
require/encourage homework using PAF at home.)

Thanks.



I haven't managed to get it to work under wine either..Keep at it though
maybe a wine update will enable it to happen, in the mean time try out
Gramps which is a native linux genealogy program.

Thanks for the suggestion to try Gramps. We have already
been using it.

--
Robert Riches
spamtrap42@verizon.net
(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)

Denis Beauregard

Re: PAF on Linux via Wine?

Legg inn av Denis Beauregard » 09 jan 2006 06:42:01

On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 02:27:36 GMT, "Robert M. Riches Jr."
<spamtrap42@verizon.net> wrote in soc.genealogy.computing:

Has anyone succeeded in using PAF on Linux, via Wine or some
other means? The times I have tried to install PAF under
Wine, the installshield has bombed out with a report that
the installer has dereferenced a null pointer. (Motivation
for the query is my house is a Microsoft-free zone, and my
wife is going to be taking a class on PAF that may
require/encourage homework using PAF at home.)

There is something called LAF (Linux Ancestral File), which was
supposed to be a PAF for Linux. But last time I checked, it
was more a dead project than anything else. Worse, someone
(a Linux addict and not a genealogist) found a very long list
of Linux genealogy softwares, but when I tried to find some of
them, most were vaporware.


Denis

Gary Garrard

Re: PAF on Linux via Wine?

Legg inn av Gary Garrard » 09 jan 2006 07:11:22

On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 02:27:36 +0000, Robert M. Riches Jr. wrote:

Has anyone succeeded in using PAF on Linux, via Wine or some other
means? The times I have tried to install PAF under Wine, the
installshield has bombed out with a report that the installer has
dereferenced a null pointer. (Motivation for the query is my house is a
Microsoft-free zone, and my wife is going to be taking a class on PAF
that may require/encourage homework using PAF at home.)


Take a look at <http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/linux/paf/>.


I haven't tried this, so I don't know to what extent it really works. But
it is worth a try.

> Thanks.

NHill

Re: PAF on Linux via Wine? I tried and went back to WIndows

Legg inn av NHill » 09 jan 2006 10:56:36

I tried and failed as well.
Used Gramps for a while and Ftree both not bad, but I had been spoiled
by the choices in the MS environment.

I used SUSE Linux, great OS, everything available - for NO COST and
half and hour to an hour for a full install.

But no genalogy package would do everything that I was used to

So;

I eventually gave up and spent a frustrating day putting Windows back
on my PC because I want a good genealogy package.

Noela Hill

Robert M. Riches Jr. wrote:

Has anyone succeeded in using PAF on Linux, via Wine or some
other means? The times I have tried to install PAF under
Wine, the installshield has bombed out with a report that
the installer has dereferenced a null pointer. (Motivation
for the query is my house is a Microsoft-free zone, and my
wife is going to be taking a class on PAF that may
require/encourage homework using PAF at home.)

Thanks.



--

Robert M. Riches Jr.

Re: PAF on Linux via Wine?

Legg inn av Robert M. Riches Jr. » 09 jan 2006 22:25:52

On 2006-01-09, Gary Garrard <gvgisme@bresnan.net> wrote:
On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 02:27:36 +0000, Robert M. Riches Jr. wrote:

Has anyone succeeded in using PAF on Linux, via Wine or some other
means? The times I have tried to install PAF under Wine, the
installshield has bombed out with a report that the installer has
dereferenced a null pointer. (Motivation for the query is my house is a
Microsoft-free zone, and my wife is going to be taking a class on PAF
that may require/encourage homework using PAF at home.)


Take a look at <http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/linux/paf/>.

I haven't tried this, so I don't know to what extent it really works. But
it is worth a try.

Thanks for the pointer. I'm off to give it a try.

--
Robert Riches
spamtrap42@verizon.net
(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)

David Rowell

Re: PAF on Linux via Wine?

Legg inn av David Rowell » 14 jan 2006 20:07:26

Robert M. Riches Jr. wrote:
Has anyone succeeded in using PAF on Linux, via Wine or some
other means?
Make a search on http://www.winehq.com for 'paf' (don't get fancy or you won't

find it) and follow along on the comments and bugs until something
begins to work.

The times I have tried to install PAF under
Wine, the installshield has bombed out with a report that

Right now the install works as McKnab says but the program doesn't function.

I'm afraid that your house will soon become MS contaminated! Take heard
- it doesn't take a lot of horsepower to run PAF - Win 98 is OK - you
could buy a cheap used box that would be fine. Maybe a notebook that
she could take with her to research sessions?

Hugh Watkins

Re: PAF on Linux via Wine?

Legg inn av Hugh Watkins » 14 jan 2006 23:08:16

David Rowell wrote:

Robert M. Riches Jr. wrote:

Has anyone succeeded in using PAF on Linux, via Wine or some
other means?

Make a search on http://www.winehq.com for 'paf' (don't get fancy or you won't
find it) and follow along on the comments and bugs until something
begins to work.

The times I have tried to install PAF under
Wine, the installshield has bombed out with a report that


Right now the install works as McKnab says but the program doesn't
function.

I'm afraid that your house will soon become MS contaminated! Take heard
- it doesn't take a lot of horsepower to run PAF - Win 98 is OK - you
could buy a cheap used box that would be fine. Maybe a notebook that
she could take with her to research sessions?


or find one in a dumpster

Hugh W

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