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I just installed Expresso via Wine Windows Program Loader. The installation seemed to be fine.

But when I click the program item from Applications -> Wine -> Programs -> Expresso -> Expresso, the cursor rotated a few seconds and then nothing happened.

Later I checked back on the Expresso website, where there is a paragraph describing the installation process:

You may be prompted to install the .NET Framework. If you are not taken there automatically, download and install the 2.0 or later version of the framework from the Microsoft web site. Restart the Expresso install file after installing the framework.

I was wondering if I have installed Expresso successfully? If not, how shall I do? Do I have to install .NET Framework, and how to?

I also would like to know if it worth to install .NET Framework? My intention to install Expresso is just to have a nice editor for using Regex.

Thanks and regards！

PS: My Wine version is 1.2.2-0ubuntu2~maverick2, and my OS is Ubuntu 10.10.

Thomas Ward
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Tim
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If Expresso is just a .Net application, you'd probably have more success running it with Mono Install mono-runtime.

You can install it with:

sudo apt-get install mono-runtime

Then browse to the application's main executable and run:

mono app.exe

...where app.exe is the executable for the application.

Elder Geek
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Nathan Osman
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You could also install the windows version of .NET runtime under Wine. This way, Mono is not required, and everything would run under Wine.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa569263

This links to .NET framework v4. Maybe this is overkill, and v3 (or even 2) would be enough for Expresso (and most applications)

MestreLion
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