wine users - Jul 2011 - VMware Thinapp and Kace Repackager + Adobe CS5

I've read the DB for Adobe Photoshop CS5, and a member mentioned using Kace
Repackager to create a installable MSI package. I cant find much docs or guides
to using the program and Im having trouble using it. I would select Setup.exe
for the Photoshop or Dreamweaver installation, allow it to pre and post scan the
changes and the result is a unexpected small .msi file. How do you use this msi
in wine?

Now for VMware thinapp, luckily our office got a newish licensed version of it
recently so I tried repackaging Dreamweaver and Photoshop CS5. The end result, I
was able to create a portable version of both apps, but they only work in
windows 7 not in wine.

Anyone proficient with Thinapp, Kace, or even PortableApps own software?

Hi, i'm not that proficient with these software, but a thing you might try
is InstallRite;
(http://www.brothersoft.com/installrite-156825.html)


 I've used it in wine a few times and it worked (install app in windows,
InstallRite scans for changes in files on disk + registry keys, and creates an
executable self extracting package that you can run wine)


As for ThinApp: newer versions are known not ot work in wine; See
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23451

You might try older VMware Thinapp version <4.5. They should work. Good luck

Just a quick note on making apps portable:
Usually, once you get a program working in WINE, that makes it portable.
Just install the program to its own prefix, then copy the prefix folder to a
thumb drive. Then you can plug the thumb drive into any computer with WINE, and
run the program out of the prefix. You can even make launcher scripts on the
thumb drive. It might be best to do this on an ext3 partition of your thumb
drive.
Cheers,
Jake