Karmic Koala instructions for installing uTorrent in Wine.

First you need to install Wine

1. Download the utorrent 1.8.2 setup file; do not download the latest version directly from utorrent, unfortunately it fails to open and says that uTorrent is already running.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=utorrent+1.8.2+download

2. Right click on the setup file and select run with Wine.

3. Complete the uTorrent setup wizard.

Do not install any additional options

Do not create any desktop shortcuts

4. From the Ubuntu menu browse to the utorrent directory.

select Wine, Wine C:\ and browse to program files\utorrent

5. Copy the address from the address bar.

/home/jeremy/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/uTorrent/

6. Create a launcher on the desktop with the command.

wine “/home/jeremy/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/uTorrent/utorrent.exe”

7. Launch uTorrent and when it prompts you to upgrade, upgrade to the latest version.

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Karmic Koala instructions for installing Wine

1. I installed Wine and Microsoft True Type Fonts

sudo apt-get install Wine msttcorefonts

2. I also added an extra drive in Wine which was mapped to my raid5 array /dev/md0

From Wine Utilities I seleted drive, added a new drive (e:), then mapped it to /dev/md0

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Karmic Koala instructions for installing notepad++ in Wine.

First you need to install Wine

1. Download the latest windows setup file from the notepadd++ website

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=notepad%2B%2B

2. Right click on the setup file and select run with Wine.

3. Complete the notepad++ setup wizard.

Do not install any additional options

Do not create any desktop shortcuts

4. From the Ubuntu menu browse to the notepad++ directory.

select Wine, Wine C:\ and browse to program files\notepad++

5. Copy the address from the address bar.

/home/jeremy/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/Notepad++/

6. Create a launcher on the desktop with the command.

wine “/home/jeremy/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/Notepad++/notepad++.exe”

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