Although we provide an install script, some people may wish to install Palringo manually, below I've reproduced what the install script does.
1) Download and run Palringo
First step is obvious, download Palringo. Once that as completed you can install it by running the following command in a terminal
wine Palringo-x86-SVN.exe
Follow the on screen installer and once completed you should be able to run Palringo
2) Install Tahoma font
The default font that comes with Wine isn't up to every bodies taste. If you're one such person then it's possible to replace the font. You can download a Tahoma font from here. Once that's complete run the following
cd ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/Fonts
tar xf ~/Desktop/tahoma.tar.gz
3) Install GDI Plus
Since Wine is reproducing the Windows API, some parts of it haven't been written yet, and therefore certain features are missing. This can be worked around by installing the original DLL files that come as standard with Windows. To use this you must have a valid and legal version of Windows already. You can then download the GDI Plus zip file and manually replace the version that ships with wine with this one as follows
cd ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32
unzip ~/Desktop/gdiplus.zip
4) Installing an image viewer
When you receive an image message with Palringo, it attempts to open it with the default viewer, and since Wine doesn't come with one we need to install our own. There are many available to download load, and as long as you can assign .jpg images to open with it then it'll be fine. The install script will download and run FastStone MaxView image viewer, feel free to replace if you like.
cd ~/Desktop
wine FSMaxViewSetup23.exe
Edited by andrew at
21 Aug 2009 @ 09:45
