If you’re looking at streamlining the usage of wine on your Linux box, checkout Wine-doors. It’s a cool software which makes installation of Windows software easy – just click and it’ll download and install, especially the usual stuff like IE, DirectX and some games.
They have a deb installer which works great on Ubuntu. The initial setup took around 5 minutes when I first started up Wine-doors.
Wine-doors is an application designed to make installing windows software on Linux, Solaris or other Unix systems easier. Wine-doors is essentially a package management tool for windows software on Linux systems. Most Linux desktop users are familiar with package management style application delivery, so it made sense to apply this model to windows software.
Be warned that you still need a legal Windows license if you install Win-doors, since it uses windows components and install the Microsoft dll packs which are available in the package manager!
Link: Wine-doors
AstralSin on September 4, 2007
Wine-doors does not use Windows components. You do not need a Windows license to use it. Wine is an open implementation of the Windows API and Wine-doors is simply a method of installing Windows programs in Wine
vinu on September 5, 2007
My bad – changed the wording of the last line