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I have Linspire 5.0, and Windows XP, and I want to run Windows programs on Linspire. What program should I use to do that?

It doesn't have a download for Linspire, though.

When I ran "./configure" it said "no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH"

Destructionator XIII wrote: Alternatively, I did some googling, and it seems Linspire uses Debian style packages, so maybe you can use the Debian binaries. I know little about these packages except I don't like them, so I fear I might have run out of usefulness at this point.

What's specifically wrong w/ Debian packages?

Well, there are executable installers such http://autopackage.org/ and various custom installers such as the nVidia one, not very widely used for whatever reason though. For proprietary software it's probably best to use one of these, while for open source software the distro can do it.

Oh, when compiling from source I usually either write out my own packaging files generating debs or use http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/ to automatically install each application into it's own directory and symlink them to the system directories so they still work right, making uninstalls easier.

Pu-239 wrote:Well, there are executable installers such http://autopackage.org/ and various custom installers such as the nVidia one, not very widely used for whatever reason though. For proprietary software it's probably best to use one of these, while for open source software the distro can do it.

Oh, when compiling from source I usually either write out my own packaging files generating debs or use http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/ to automatically install each application into it's own directory and symlink them to the system directories so they still work right, making uninstalls easier.

Are there any newbie docs on this process? It's only a very rare occasion where I've needed to compile but I'd like to know better ways of managing it.

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/336

You can also apt-get stow and read the man pages for that for the stow based solution

Muchos gracias.