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Re: Big Oven does work in Linux

stevemur — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:47:46 GMT

You are terrific to stop by the forum and help out other users with this detailed information.

Thanks, windspinner!

Big Oven does work in Linux

windspinner — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:41:36 GMT

Just found the forum and FYI Big Oven does run in linux, perfectly. I just installed it on my Ubunto 8.04 distro.

Here's what you need to do.

You must have wine installed. I'm using ver 1.1. (I tried this on an earlier version of wine and it did not run.)

Next download a little script called winetricks from www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks There is a help file also available.

run winetricks from where you downloaded it. ./sh winetricks should work. or better install it by typeing in a terminal

chmod +x winetricks

(and then)

sudo mv winetricks /usr/local/bin

Now you can just type winetricks and it will pop up a nice gui. You need to click on and install MDACS 25.

Don't download the file from Microsoft and try to install it in wine yourself, it won't work. You need winetricks

Now install Big Oven as a wine application. If your wine installation does not have gecko web engine installed you will get a popup asking if you want to install it. Click yes. (Big Oven does not seem to like the version of IE Explorer in the wine package)

Click on the Big Oven icon and have fun!

I used Big OVen quite a bit under my old XP machine and for some reason it's running a lot quicker under wine in Linux than it did in XP.

Hope this helps some other linux users who want to use your fine program.

Windspinner

How about a version for Linux?

tommasta — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:23:58 GMT

Hey there - I am interested in building a recipe computer for my kitchen, using a small-form factor motherboard and maybe a CF card for the storage/boot drive. It would have a touch-screen, and the whole unit would be mounted in the cabinet door (with plastic over it to protect the screen).

Only, I'm planning on running Linux to reduce costs. Big Oven seems to be the most practical recipe program available, but it's Windows only =( Will there ever be a Linux verion? Or am I destined to buy another copy of Windows for a little single-use computer?