Play On Linux - Microsoft software in Wine the easy way

Just come across this tool for Linux, and testing it out with Office 2007 at the moment.

http://www.playonlinux.com/en/download.html

Install the repo, then install the playonlinux package.

Once installed run playonlinux, follow the first time run steps.

Once installed then you can install applications and have it perform the wine configuration for you.

vlc-2.0.3-1.fc17.x86_64 main libvlc error

Having recently upgraded from F14 to F17, I found 1 small issues with my update on VLC.  F17 was so easy to install and on my HP DV3 pretty much worked, apart from the regular kernel line hack acpi_osi= to make the display come up.

VLC on the other hand decided that on my laptop didn't want to work for my account, but did on another user account.

When I ran it from the command line I received the following error;



VLC media player 2.0.3 Twoflower (revision 2.0.2-93-g77aa89e)
[0xa51bd8] main interface error: no suitable interface module
[0x97f108] main libvlc error: interface "globalhotkeys,none" initialization failed
[0x97f108] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

On further investigation into my environment I comment out my LD_LIBRARY_PATH that was currently set in my .bash_profile, logout and back in and hey presto VLC started to work again.

The trick here was the Segmentation fault at the end and the "no suitable interface module"