Learn, Create, Understand, Test, Use And Save Regular Expressions on LinuxRunning RegexBuddy on Linux Using WineWhile there is no native Linux version of RegexBuddy, it is possible to run the Windows version of RegexBuddy on Linux using Wine. Wine is an application designed to run Windows applications on Linux. Aside from a few minor glitches, this works just fine. First, Wine needs to be installed on your Linux computer. If it isn't already, check the official Wine documentation to learn how to install Wine. You can download ready-to-install packages of Wine for all the popular Linux distributions. Once Wine is installed, use the web browser on your Linux computer to download RegexBuddy. If your browser asks you if you want to run the file with Wine, say yes. If it doesn't, save the file. Open a terminal screen, cd to your download directory, and type: Wine SetupRegexBuddy.exe (change .exe file name to what you actually downloaded). RegexBuddy's installer will pop up. Click the no-questions-asked button for a quick install. To start RegexBuddy, double-click the RegexBuddy icon that the installer placed on your desktop. If there's no desktop shortcut, type Wine "c:\program files\jgsoft\regexbuddy3\regexbuddy.exe" in a terminal screen (assuming you used the default installation folder). Glitches Running RegexBuddy with WineWhen I tested RegexBuddy 3 on an Ubuntu 7.04 installation in VMware, I noticed only two glitches. When starting RegexBuddy from a terminal, the terminal would show a large number of CreateBitmap errors. It seems Wine has trouble with RegexBuddy's alpha-blended icons. Toolbar icons appeared as black or gray squares. This is only a cosmetic issue, as the buttons are fully functional. Since some buttons don't have labels, you'll need to glance at the status bar to see what each button does. The bitmap errors do seem to slow down RegexBuddy's startup significantly. If you start RegexBuddy by double-clicking a desktop shortcut, it may take a while for RegexBuddy to appear. I also found that Wine doesn't seem to properly handle HTML Help files (*.chm) yet. I find this a bit odd, since Microsoft has deprecated WinHelp with the launch of Windows Vista, leaving HTML Help as the only standard help format. Hopefully this will be resolved in future releases of Wine. I found that the Explain Token button on the Create tab in RegexBuddy didn't work. The items under the Help button on the main toolbar do work. Unfortunately, Wine doesn't display the table of contents of the .chm file, though the body text does appear. I recommend that you use the PDF file included with RegexBuddy as your documentation. It includes exactly the same text as the CHM file. Other than that, everything seems to work just fine. | "RegexBuddy is one of those super time-saving programs, when frankly, you need to show results not labour. I've tried programs like kregexpeditor, visual regexp and kodos, and none of them comes close to the user-friendliness and easy learning curve of RegexBuddy. "Version 3 runs without a glitch on Ubuntu Edgy [using Wine], including copy-and-paste." -- Tohir Solomons 25 June 2007, South Africa |
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