PAF on Linux via Wine?
Robert M. Riches Jr.
other means? The times I have tried to install PAF under
Wine, the installshield has bombed out with a report that
the installer has dereferenced a null pointer. (Motivation
for the query is my house is a Microsoft-free zone, and my
wife is going to be taking a class on PAF that may
require/encourage homework using PAF at home.)
Thanks.
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Robert Riches
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(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)
David A' Rebel
> Has anyone succeeded in using PAF on Linux, via Wine or some
> other means? The times I have tried to install PAF under
> Wine, the installshield has bombed out with a report that
> the installer has dereferenced a null pointer. (Motivation
> for the query is my house is a Microsoft-free zone, and my
> wife is going to be taking a class on PAF that may
> require/encourage homework using PAF at home.)
>
> Thanks.
>
I haven't managed to get it to work under wine either..Keep at it though
maybe a wine update will enable it to happen, in the mean time try out
Gramps which is a native linux genealogy program.
Robert M. Riches Jr.
Thanks for the suggestion to try Gramps. We have already
been using it.
Denis Beauregard
<spamt...@verizon.net> wrote in soc.genealogy.computing:
>Has anyone succeeded in using PAF on Linux, via Wine or some
>other means? The times I have tried to install PAF under
>Wine, the installshield has bombed out with a report that
>the installer has dereferenced a null pointer. (Motivation
>for the query is my house is a Microsoft-free zone, and my
>wife is going to be taking a class on PAF that may
>require/encourage homework using PAF at home.)
There is something called LAF (Linux Ancestral File), which was
supposed to be a PAF for Linux. But last time I checked, it
was more a dead project than anything else. Worse, someone
(a Linux addict and not a genealogist) found a very long list
of Linux genealogy softwares, but when I tried to find some of
them, most were vaporware.
Denis
Gary Garrard
> Has anyone succeeded in using PAF on Linux, via Wine or some other
> means? The times I have tried to install PAF under Wine, the
> installshield has bombed out with a report that the installer has
> dereferenced a null pointer. (Motivation for the query is my house is a
> Microsoft-free zone, and my wife is going to be taking a class on PAF
> that may require/encourage homework using PAF at home.)
>
>
Take a look at <http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/linux/paf/>.
I haven't tried this, so I don't know to what extent it really works. But
it is worth a try.
> Thanks.
NHill
Used Gramps for a while and Ftree both not bad, but I had been spoiled
by the choices in the MS environment.
I used SUSE Linux, great OS, everything available - for NO COST and
half and hour to an hour for a full install.
But no genalogy package would do everything that I was used to
So;
I eventually gave up and spent a frustrating day putting Windows back
on my PC because I want a good genealogy package.
Noela Hill
Robert M. Riches Jr. wrote:
Robert M. Riches Jr.
Thanks for the pointer. I'm off to give it a try.
David Rowell
> other means?
find it) and follow along on the comments and bugs until something
begins to work.
> The times I have tried to install PAF under
> Wine, the installshield has bombed out with a report that
Right now the install works as McKnab says but the program doesn't function.
I'm afraid that your house will soon become MS contaminated! Take heard
- it doesn't take a lot of horsepower to run PAF - Win 98 is OK - you
could buy a cheap used box that would be fine. Maybe a notebook that
she could take with her to research sessions?
Hugh Watkins
or find one in a dumpster
Hugh W