23 November 2009 - 7 Kislev 5770
kaluach3 – calendar program on Linux
| Posted by Moishe Beshkin in Reviews
Sometimes, I have a serious problem at home because no MS Windows is there.
But fortunately, there is WINE. Which sometimes can solve my problem.
Kaluach.com provides only win32 and mobile versions of their calendar. So, I decided to try double-click on Kaluach_3_2_41_24.exe.
Installation past smoothly. In ~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/Kaluach3 there is Kaluach3.exe executable. Again double-click on it and voila:
the only problem I got was with the tree in Options and Preferences:
Some words about the system:
OS: Ubuntu 9.10
WINE: 1.1.31
Popularity: 47% [?]
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baruch | May 10, 2010 - 27 Iyar 5770 at 12:09 pm
I also had the same trouble (Ubuntu Lucid, wine 1.42.
Here’s the curious part:
I set up a second user account, and used winetricks to download a bunch of stuff. Then, on that second user account, I installed Kaluach3 – and the options preferences dialog functioned fine!
I tried replicating it on the first user account, to no success, and my current state is that both are messed up.
Finally: If you do need to set custom preferences (eg. you live outside of the default cities of Jerusalem or Pittsburgh), do the following: install kaluach on a windows machine, copy the three files /windows/kaluach.ini, /user/local settings/kaluach/options.ini and shitot.ini to the corresponding places in your .wine directory tree, and you should be good to go (it worked for me), except that my shabbat candle lighting persists at 15minutes.
SUMMARY: There is a real fix, probably via a winetricks install, tbd.
please update me if your have anything
baruch | May 10, 2010 - 27 Iyar 5770 at 12:16 pm
Second comment:
I have been remiss in pointing out a truly great app written by Ulrich Greve, called Dertogfarlinux
Check out http://www.tichnut.de/jewish/dertogfarlinux.html