Real Talk: Operating System

[monk0nuggets]

I mean like deep scan file recovery you would use to recover specific files after a reformatting of the hard drive. I've used programs like this for windows, but I wasn't sure if there was a Linux equivalent. I can't seem to find one.

Also, it looks like Dazzle won't run correctly through Wine. It's the program I use to print shipping labels for VV. I read someone was running some type of windows emulator that starts with a Q, but I can't remember the name right now and its not in the Ubuntu Software Center.

[Guest eriathomas]

QEMU possibly.

[monk0nuggets]

That's it! It doesn't seem to be available in Ubuntu, or am I just missing something?

[roadmonkey]

You can install QEMU on your Ubuntu machine.

You just need to know how to do a generic software installation for Linux. In other words, not using the software repositories hehe.

You will need to do with via a terminal or command shell (Right Click and select open terminal)

Perform these commands.

1) mkdir -p /usr/local/src

2) cd /usr/local/src

3) wget http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/qemu/qemu-0.12.3.tar.gz

4) tar zxvf qemu-x.y.z.tar.gz

5) cd qemu-x.y.z

6) ./configure

7) make

8) sudo make install

At step 8, you will be asked for your user password.

There's a nice general tutorial here

http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/softinstall.html

I only used /usr/local/src cause it's a nice place to just store your installation files to install.

[sgoodcore]

Never used Linux and now you're compiling your own source code to build programs. You've grown-up so fast.