Comments on: Infostore 3 .deb and .rpm coming soon

By: Mark Messenger

Mark Messenger — Sun, 23 May 2010 14:09:58 +0000

Dear Dan, I’d also like to have the IS .deb
Thanks

By: James

James — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:54:14 +0000

Hi there Dan, I’d like to get the infostore deb if possible. Where can I find it?

By: Zeth

Zeth — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:39:26 +0000

Oh btw, I would like to test the RPM’s and DEB’s that are offered.

I personally am using Crossover for running IS … I guess I bought it early on for other Windows apps and figured i might as well just use it for as many things as possible. Thing is that now the only Windows apps I use are IS, TextAloud and Utorrent.

By: Zeth

Zeth — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:28:57 +0000

Hi all …
Dan, I think it is fantabulous that you are preparing a Linux installer for IS! Good work!!

I do like the idea as well that KOB had about online access to IS, of course as an option to the installable IS.

Debian, thanks for the heads-up on that!

I always wondered how many linux users there were in the Fam .. I hope there are more than are commenting here

By: D. Johnson

D. Johnson — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:02:10 +0000

Unless you upgrade to version 3.1 or newer (which you should) and then it requires IE6 and doesn’t work with Gecko.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:25:02 +0000

InfoStore works great using Wine Gecko instead of IE6, however InfoStore requires VML to display the embedded vector graphics in InfoStore libraries, and that is installed by doing a custom install on IE6 in a win98 bottle.

Don’t know why I bother to comment though.

By: Debian

Debian — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:34:16 +0000

As a near-perfect confirmation of my theory, I checked a windows installation of infostore and found that neither the Swahili or Swedish dictionaries are loaded. As soon as I remove the Swahili dictionary, the Swedish one loads.
Clearly the difference between wine and windows in this is the order of the files. Windows consistently gives the file list in alphabetical order, so consistently the SWAhili and SWEdish dictionaries are missing. Wine provably doesn’t give the files in alphabetical order, which accounts for the unpredictable results I was getting with renaming and removing files.

So, two problems here I’m quite sure:
1. A corrupt Swahili dictionary
2. Dictionary loading process doesn’t report errors

By: Debian

Debian — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:59:02 +0000

Interestingly it seems that my winetricks ie6 prefix almost doesn’t have the dictionary problem, the only one that fails to load is that Swahili dictionary, so I’d guess there’s something wrong with it.
My hypothesis is that in the configurations where dictionaries disappear it’s because it fails on loading Swahili and that failure causes the rest of the dictionaries not to load.
Perhaps kevin can check if that’s a possibility…

By: Debian

Debian — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:32:49 +0000

This sounds real good.
As far as the dictionaries, as I said, removing the Swahili dictionary seems to be the best compromise as once you do, the rest will be fine (at least I think so, I may have renamed some of the other dicts also to get it working). If that doesn’t work perhaps I can email you the dictionaries folder I have.

It’s really odd how it works though. Removing one or several dictionaries makes a difference, but then so does renaming them, and it seems totally random. Perhaps I’ll look into it a bit more…

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:48:37 +0000

Ooh! I want to test, haven’t had a chance to install Infostore on my newest system.