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Bordeaux Group Linux Package
Bordeaux Group, Inc.
http://www.bordeauxgroup.com/
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Date: 08/26/2010
I. Description
Bordeaux for Linux is Wine 1.2 plus Cabextract, Wget, Unzip and other tools and libraries compiled on Ubuntu Linux for Linux systems. Bordeaux comes with a simple UI written in GTK that facilitates in the installation and execution of select programs that we currently support.
II. Installer and UI Dependencies
The Bordeaux UI is written in GTK and requires the GTK2 runtime environment to be installed on your system.
With the release of Bordeaux 2.0.8 we now bundle wine, cabextract, wget and unzip with Bordeaux these tools will be installed in "/opt/bordeaux/bin"
The Bordeaux Installer has also been re-written and the dependency on python,PyGTK and xmessage has been removed. The current .sh installer is strictly a shell installer and will install on any Linux system.
III. Wine Dependencies
Bordeaux bundles Wine 1.2 and uses many third party libraries that can be found in the your distrobutions software repository.
Wine also uses the packages listed below depending on the software in use.
lcms = Little Color Management System
samba = A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX
sane-backend = SANE library and backends
xsane = Graphical scanning frontend for the SANE scanner interface.
ldap = LDAP Libraries
openssl = OpenSSL Commands
IV. How to use Bordeaux
To install Bordeaux for Linux simply run one of the following commands.
Ubuntu
$ sudo gdebi bordeaux*.deb
Ubuntu and Debian flavors
$ sudo dpkg -i bordeaux*.deb
openSUSE, Fedora, Redhat and PCLinux
$ sudo rpm -ivh bordeaux*.rpm
Gentoo, and etc.
$ sudo sh install*.sh
If all the above decencies are met the installer should install Bordeaux in your /opt directory under the name /opt/bordeaux
A Bordeaux menu should be created in your Applications menu but if for some reason the menu doesn't get created you can run Bordeaux with the following command.
/opt/bordeaux/bin/bordeaux-setup
To install a Application simply double click on the the applications name or select it once and then select OK and the install should proceed. To exit Bordeaux click the [x] at the top right of the program.
V. Known Issues
Wine menus are not properly made sometimes, as a work around we install shell script shorcuts for each app we support in /home/user/bin simply double click the app and then select run
or
run $ bin/iexplore to start Internet Explorer for example
If you install IrfanView you have to finish the install and then start Irfanview after you have closed the installer. So DONT run Irfanview from the installer at the end of the install process. Also DONT install the Google Tool Bar, it isnt needed by IrfanView.
If the Steam update stalls or quiets just run steam again and it should complete on the second try.
VI. Compatibility
Bordeaux 2.0.8 has tested under a wide variety of Linux distributions, if Bordeaux doesn't operate correctly on your system file a issue and we will investigate the problem.
VII. Additional Resources
Bordeaux Group : http://www.bordeauxgroup.com/
WineHQ : http://www.winehq.org/
Linux : http://lxer.com/
