[Bug 1882] Bridge Base Online not running properly

[Wine Bugs]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1882

------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  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)