On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 10:58 PM, Iznogoud <iznogoud at nobelware.com> wrote: > Do as Bob said, which is what I was trying to describe, but putting that > "filter file" (that is what those used to be called) in the right place > for CUPS. That should be easy. If you cannot do it, report back and I will > give it a shot myself and give you instructions. > Thank you for that very generous offer. > > By a "bonked" system I am assuming a system that had issues due to .so > files > being tweaked after a Wine installation, not a runtime issue. Correct? The > runtime issue may be avoided by jailing the process, like Randy said. (I > use > LXC, not Docker.) > > By 'borked' I meant that I had an unusable system. I cannot remember exactly as that was over 3 years ago just that the system was halted and I couldn't get into it - - - nothing. So it was a reinstall. That was what lead to my starting to use VMs - - - that level of aggravation and frustration just was too much to risk a repeat. From that I also developed the habit of having all the VMs stored in a certain fashion, which, on this last system upgrade, Vbox will no longer let me do - - - rather it has been deciding where to put stuff. So I've started looking into LXC and LXD - - - still a total noob though! > I do NOT recommend software packages like Wine being installed with apt-get > style package and dependence maintainers/installers. Take this with a grain > of salt from possibly the only Slackware user here, but I install this sort > of packages as "environment modules" and build them from source. Nothing on > the system gets contaminated, and one can have a number of versions of the > packages available for any user on demand. Wine, specifically, comes out > with > a new version every five minutes... > That was what I did - - - I was using apt-get to install and there were an absolute mountain of dependencies that I had to add/fiddle with and somewhere in all the mess I managed to bork things thoroughly - - - vms for sure now! > > Here is an example of modules on my desktop: > > iznogoud at bigpapa:~> module avail > > ---------------------------- /opt/Modules/versions > ----------------------------- > 3.2.9 > > ------------------------ /opt/Modules/3.2.9/modulefiles > ------------------------ > HDF5 OpenMPI Wine gcc6.3.0 modules > JavaJDK OpenOffice Wine-1.8.3 module-cvs null > Metis PETSc dot module-info use.own > iznogoud at bigpapa:~> > > The "gcc6.3.0" I had built when I was describing to Mr Wood on this list > how > to put a hacked-up version of GCC 6.3 with certain components of GCC 7.x. > > In the examples above I have a number of Wine, OpenOffice, JavaJDK > available, > but I only have some of them visible. > > Use modules; thank me later. > Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm - - - I'm on Debian - - - haven't run into the 'module' thing yet - - - there are so many things I'm 'supposed' to know - - - and there just aren't enough hours in the day to use the tools the way I need to, for my business and my self, and to figure out how to install and combine the tools. Thank you for your assistance and ideas! Dee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20170805/558f5386/attachment-0001.html>