Using GGDT on Linux systems
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 6:29 pm
As a Linux user and due to my recent interest in pneumatics, I wanted to see if I could get GGDT to run under Wine, a Windows compatibility layer for Linux. This is nothing too complicated (especially for seasoned Linux users) but I thought it might be useful to some. The procedure is as follows:
1) Download and install the latest version of Wine on your computer by going to http://www.winehq.org/site/download and acquiring the appropriate package for your distro (I use Ubuntu 7.10).
2) To make sure everything went OK, open up a terminal and type "winecfg". You should get a windows-style dialog with a bunch of settings for Wine. You shouldn't need to change these at least for the purposes of running GGDT.
3) Next, you need to install the Visual Basic 6 runtime. This includes some files needed for running programs written in VB. Just go to this website to download and save the installer.
4) In the terminal, type the following to install the runtime: This worked without any problems for me.
5) Follow the instructions for installing GGDT on Windows as described here. Note that you will need some way of extracting Microsoft .cab archives (just double clicking will not work on Linux). http://www.youconvertit.com/ should be able to help you out with this if you have no other way. Put the two .OCX files contained in the archives in the same folder as GGDT.
6) Once you have ggdt4.4.exe and the two .OCX files in the same directory, you should be ready to fire it up. In a terminal, navigate to the GGDT directory and type "wine ggdt4.4.exe". Hopefully, you will now be running the program.
The only flaws I have noticed so far are that the labels for the graph display seem to be missing. The program is also somewhat slower than when run on Windows but that's pretty normal and isn't a major impediment. Besides that, everything works great!
Also, I believe Wine can be run on other operating systems besides Linux (go to http://www.winehq.com/ for more info).
Thanks for reading, and I hope this works for you as well.
1) Download and install the latest version of Wine on your computer by going to http://www.winehq.org/site/download and acquiring the appropriate package for your distro (I use Ubuntu 7.10).
2) To make sure everything went OK, open up a terminal and type "winecfg". You should get a windows-style dialog with a bunch of settings for Wine. You shouldn't need to change these at least for the purposes of running GGDT.
3) Next, you need to install the Visual Basic 6 runtime. This includes some files needed for running programs written in VB. Just go to this website to download and save the installer.
4) In the terminal, type the following to install the runtime:
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wine "/installer/download/directory/vbrun60sp5.exe"
5) Follow the instructions for installing GGDT on Windows as described here. Note that you will need some way of extracting Microsoft .cab archives (just double clicking will not work on Linux). http://www.youconvertit.com/ should be able to help you out with this if you have no other way. Put the two .OCX files contained in the archives in the same folder as GGDT.
6) Once you have ggdt4.4.exe and the two .OCX files in the same directory, you should be ready to fire it up. In a terminal, navigate to the GGDT directory and type "wine ggdt4.4.exe". Hopefully, you will now be running the program.
The only flaws I have noticed so far are that the labels for the graph display seem to be missing. The program is also somewhat slower than when run on Windows but that's pretty normal and isn't a major impediment. Besides that, everything works great!
Also, I believe Wine can be run on other operating systems besides Linux (go to http://www.winehq.com/ for more info).
Thanks for reading, and I hope this works for you as well.