paltalk & wine

**knight** · 07-18-2003, 04:22 PM

hi all..
I have never used wine before.. never really needed to, now I have some friends visiting me tonight and having some sort of seminar, some will be attending through paltalk
I never used paltalk before, chatting is only with text..
but since I am the only one of them with a big room in my flat it was decided it will be held here..

I do not want to boot the other pc to use windows.. so I will need some help here:
1) can I run paltalk w/ wine?
2) do I have to have windows installed in a seperate patition to use wine? -I think so-
3) if so, do I have to install the program in windows first to use it in linux?

thank you all in advance..

**trickster** · 07-18-2003, 10:03 PM

Hi,

Some people report Paltalk working with linux. However, setting up wine for the first time is a bit complicated.

You do not need a Windows installation to use Wine. However, if you do, Wine can use some files off it.

This is the deal: Wine has its own version of some Windows files, which you can tell it to use. You can also use the versions of your Windows installations, or look the files up on the internet. Most people report problems using Windows 2000 or XP's DLL files. Most people report success with Windows 98's DLL's.

I personally use Wine only for Kazaa. After setting it up, I had to download some Windows 98's DLLs of the net, and eventually got it to work with the latest version.

This person reports success running Paltalk with Wine. However, keep in mind that Wine is a complex application and most people need to tweak it and spend hours of work with the settings to get it to work.

I'd say that, if you plan on running Paltal tonight under Wine, give yourself ample time to install both Wine and Paltalk, configure Wine and troubleshoot weird problems.

**trickster** · 07-18-2003, 10:32 PM

Ok, I just installed Paltalk to test it, and although it seeme liked i got errors installing, it did installed and connected. Didn't tried chatting, though.

**knight** · 07-19-2003, 10:05 PM

Thank you for replying and testing..
I didn't have the time to try all of this so I had to boot the windows pc and download and install paltalk.. to save the moment..

now that I have until Tuesday for our next session, I will have to read some manuals and do some testing...

but btw.. isn't there any linux client for paltalk

OR

isn't there an alternative program all togather.. prefebly muli-platform to connect w/ windows..

what we are looking for is a program enabling us to talk -voice- to someone else.. the video part is not essenial..

thank you again