Wine and Rode Central: Just a font away?

[jcas0058 (Juan Carlos Araujo)]

I’m still on my research about a good audio interface to use on Fedora and, since many more modern options are kind of software-dependent (Windows/Mac software, of course), I decided to test installin the required software through WINE. There was a warning since it was not a .exe, but a .msi, but installation went ok on my Samsung laptop. However, onece I tried to run the program, this appeared on my display: Missing Fonts.

Just a font? Ok, maybe a MS proprietary fond, I don’t know – I told myself.

So I tried on my iMac under Ubuntu, where I also installed the “restricted extras” package where, among other things, there’s a lot of MS fonts. The same WINE warning, the same smooth installation AND the same message once I tried to run the app: Missing Fonts.

I don’t know if it is a WINE problem, a .msi installation problem, a hardware problem (my ocmputers are quite old) or a sing from the open-source gods telling me I need to focus on sofware-independent audio hardware, even if it’s not as fancy.

What do you think?

[theprogram (MatH)]

I think you might have to put the font you need in the Wine folder, not just in the system fonts folder.

I once had a missing font in a game running under Wine, so I found the name of the font I needed, downloaded it from a fonts site (there are many - one could also copy it from a Windows installation) and popped it in the same folder as the executable in the directory created by Wine.

So I would say it is a font problem, not hardware, not strictly Wine.

I don’t use any non-Linux software with my Rode mic and Audiobox, and yes, listen to the Open Source Gods, Pray to Linux, and be merry.