http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1882
------- Additional Comments From sbhollingsworth@gmail.com 2005-28-10 12:10 ------- Good news! The team at Bridge Base Online have addressed some the incompatibilities with wine in their latest release. From personal experience and online reports I know that their fixes work with wine at least as early as 20050725 and also work with 0.9.
From what I understand the information below only applies to the current beta
test software. In the future the standard version downloaded from BBO will have these changes rolled in. You can get more about running BBO on linux at the BBO forum: http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?s=8cac7ad0e101a86c0d2d9acf5aa457f3&am...
Here's an excerpt from the forum, a short HOWTO from Pierre Couzy (pico on BBO):
HowTo : install bbo on linux
1/ Go to www.winehq.com and download wine if you don't have it on your system already.
2/ Grab a copy of Symbol.ttf. You'll need this font to properly display the suit symbols. Copy it in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/symbol (you'll have to manually create the symbol folder)
3/ Download bbo_setup.exe (http://www.bridgebase.com/450beta/bbo450_setup.exe as the time of writing, but I guess the normal version will work pretty soon)
4/ Launch a terminal and type : wine bbo_setup.exe (bbo450_setup.exe if you're using the beta version). This will launch the installer. Proceed as if you were installing under Windows.
5/ Grab the patched executable (again, this step might be useless in the next version of bbo) at http://www.bridgebase.com/450beta/LinuxNetBridgeVue.zip
Unpack it, you'll get an executable file, copy it to ~/.wine/drive_c/Bridge\ Base\ Online
6/ Launch the executable from a shell : wine NetBridgeVu.exe (or LinuxNetBridgeVue.exe for the next weeks). In case you don't find the executable, it's located in ~/.wine/drive_c/WhateverFolderYouUsedForTheInstall
7/ You're done.
Caveat : Monitor the free memory on your system when playing, you might have to quit and re-launch bbo from time to time, there are some memory leaks probably due to Wine. On my machine (PIII 700, 384 Mo, Ubuntu) I have to do this about every hour. If you have a problem, you can contact me on BBO (pico)