[LAD] [Somewhat OT] Running QSC Venue Manager on wine ?

[Dan Kegel]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 3:42 PM,  <fons at kokkinizita.net> wrote:
> Anyone managed to run QSC's Venue Manager software on wine ?
>
> <http://www.qscaudio.com/products/software/qscontrolnet/>
>
> Tried it yesterday - running the installer displays a message
> that it is checking for 'required Microsoft components' and
> that this could take 5 to 10 minutes. But it was still checking
> an hour later...

I downloaded the installer, unpacked with unzip, noticed
that it used a few Microsoft components, and installed them
ahead of time with winetricks just in case:
  sh winetricks dotnet20 mdac27 jet40
The installer than ran just fine, and finished in under a minute.
I was using wine-1.3.11; if you're using something older, you should
download 1.3.11 or so.  (See http://www.winehq.org/download/
for pointers to where to get packages for Ubuntu, etc.)
QSControlNet.exe started up, but with great read X's and black
menu items;
  sh winetricks gdiplus
fixed that.
No idea if the app really works, but at least it installs and starts.