On 09/01/2015 04:22 PM, rlharris@oplink.net wrote:
Having tried wine in the past, I do not recommend it. I had fits with it. Some things work. Some don't. I use VirtualBox and load in a whole separate operating system. If you don't have the disks that could be a problem. If you have the installation disks for another OS, VirtualBox is the way to go.I keep forgetting about WINE -- likely because I never have used WINE. >From the WINE HQ web site, it appears that WINE may be a reasonable solution, and even a way to circumvent the problems of running the intel code on an amd machine. https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=2292 RLH
BTW Google Earth should operate on an AMD chip set if you enable milti-arch as Sven said. That would seem to be the easier cleaner way to go.