There have been multiple minor-version releases. One tester has 5.2.18.0 (English) and 5.1.12.0 (English) installed on different Windows systems, and can't tell the difference between them.
Wine compatibility
Refer to specific test data for information on what works, what does not work, and what was not tested.
Application Details:
Version: | 5.x |
License: | Free to use |
URL: | http://www.familysearch.org/ |
Votes: | 7 |
Latest Rating: | Silver |
Latest Wine Version Tested: | 1.7.13 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
What does not
Workarounds
What was not tested
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
This application has been platinum with earlier Wine versions. It operates better than a silver rating would imply. However, it does not require any DLL overrides, so a gold rating is not appropriate.
Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
Show | Debian GNU/Linux 7.x "Wheezy" x86_64 | Feb 23 2014 | 1.7.13 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | Robert Riches | |
Show | Mageia 2 | Dec 22 2013 | 1.7.9 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | Robert Riches | |
Show | Mageia 2 | Oct 13 2013 | 1.7.4 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | Robert Riches | |
Current | Mageia 2 | Aug 04 2013 | 1.7.0 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | Robert Riches | |
Show | Mageia 2 | Jun 16 2013 | 1.6-rc2 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | Robert Riches |
Maintenance of this AppDB page has been suspended, because PAF has been unsupported since about July 15, 2013. A comment was posted in August, 2013 asking whether anyone still uses this application, and there has been no response.
If anyone does use this application, please post a comment. If anyone does use this application, I'll probably resume regular testing with new versions of Wine. (If someone else wants to be a maintainer of this page, I won't be opposed.)
Appendix:
Wine version
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Font/text appearance
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Unhandled page faults?
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0.9.50 , 0.9.52
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text looks fine, even without core fonts
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after several help navigation clicks
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0.9.53 through 0.9.56
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Wine_Gecko does not download
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n/a
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0.9.57 through 0.9.60
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Help text looks fine, even without core fonts.
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After more than 9 to 12 help navigation clicks.
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0.9.61 through 1.1.1
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Help text looks fine.
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After any use of the help window.
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1.1.2 through 1.1.11
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Help text looks fine.
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No unhandled page faults seen. |
1.1.12 (patched) through 1.1.26 |
Most chapters show no text.
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No unhandled page faults seen. |
1.1.28 through 1.1.37
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Help text looks fine.
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No unhandled page faults seen.
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1.1.38
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n/a
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on first attempt to use help
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1.1.39
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Help text looks fine.
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No unhandled page faults seen.
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1.1.40
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Help text looks fine.
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Unhandled page fault after clicking on a hyperlink.
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1.1.41 (patched) through 1.1.44, 1.2-rc1 through 1.2-rc4
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Help text looks fine.
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No unhandled page faults seen.
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1.2-rc5 through 1.2-rc7, 1.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.3.0 through 1.3.3
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Most chapters show no text.
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No unhandled page faults seen.
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1.3.4 through 1.3.6
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Help text looks fine (except graphical items).
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No unhandled page faults seen.
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1.3.7 through 1.3.11 |
No text visible in any chapter.
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No unhandled page faults seen.
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1.3.12 through 1.3.15
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Chapters show text until crash.
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Unhandled page fault after clicking on four chapter titles.
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1.3.16 through 1.3.37
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Help text looks fine.
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Help viewer exception, wine crash after canceling print, following a few hyperlinks.
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1.4-rc1 through 1.4-rc3
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Help text looks fine.
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Help viewer exception, wine crash after canceling print, following a few hyperlinks. |
1.4-rc4 and 1.4-rc5
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Help text looks fine until crash.
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Unhandled page fault after clicking on several chapter titles. Separate WINE crash after canceling print and following a few hyperlinks.
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1.4-4c6, 1.4, 1.4.1, and 1.5.0 through 1.5.28
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Help text looks fine. | Help viewer exception, wine crash after canceling print, following a few hyperlinks.
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1.5.29 through 1.5.31, 1.6-rc1 through 1.6-rc5, 1.6, 1.6.2, 1.7.0 through 1.7.13 |
Help text looks fine.
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Help viewer exception, wine crash after canceling print from the help viewer and sometimes after successful printing. |
PAF 5 works under Wine on an Intel-based Mac using the X11 compatibility layer. It is reported to have the same issues as on Linux. To supply updates, clarifications, corrections, and such to this note, please post comments or email maintainers.
It requires XCode, X11, and fontforge:
There have been no reports concerning the use of Darwine, the Quartz driver instead of the X11 driver to remove the X11 requirement, or QEmu to run PAF on a PowerPC Mac.
To make it as easy to start as other Mac programs, it is recommended to make a simple Mac bundle containing a bash script that starts X11 and then starts Wine and the PAF executable.
On May 29, 2011, Clinton Stimpson commented with the following:
Yes, Wine still works with PAF 5.2 on Mac.
There is no special information for Mac users except what is found here (Intel Mac support is part of the official source):
wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX
wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX/Installing
But, I would add that my own do-it-yourself build had to have this:
export DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11/lib:/usr/lib
The /usr/X11/lib path was for better font support, and /usr/lib was to enable print support in PAF.
(This is an edited version of a comment originally dated January 12,
2007 and originally titled "To run PAF 5.2 under Wine 0.9.29 (or later)
(on Mandriva Linux 2007)").
1. Install wine-0.9.29 or later. If you compile Wine from source,
you will need fontforge, bison-2.3 (byacc won't work) and
libcups2-devel (or equivalent).
2. If you wish to specify the path to the Wine prefix directory
to be something other than $HOME/.wine, set environment variable
WINEPREFIX. This variable must be set each time you run something from
this prefix directory.
3. Run wineprefixcreate to build the prefix area.
4. Install PAF 5.2 from CD /mnt/cdrom/setup.exe or from
downloaded PAF5AllLangs.exe or PAF5EnglishSetup.exe. Suggestions:
uncheck Acrobat reader, skip viewing 'getting started' document if
asked, install PAF international font if asked. (File PAF5AllLangs.exe
can be found at ftp.ldscatalog.com/PAF5AllLangs.exe.)
5. Install font(s) by doing either OR both of the following:
1. Install PAF international font (if that was not done in
step 4) by running Wine on PAF5Font.exe (from the PAF 5.2 CD.)
2. Download the core font installers from sourceforge.net/projects/corefonts. (You don't need the Word 97 viewer--it probably won't work.) Run all 11 of the *32.exe files.
6. Run PAF with something similar to the following command. (You may want to define an alias for this command.
Suggestion: make a source script that sets the WINEPREFIX environment variable and defines the alias.)
wine curpref/drive_c/'Program Files'/FamilySearch/Paf5/pstart.exe
As a historical note, the following "HOWTO" used to be posted here:
Test System: Wine Version = 20021007; Linux Version = Redhat 8.0; Hardware = Thinkpad PII 196MB RAM
PAF Install Guide:
1. Manually add the following keys to the wine windows user registry file:
[Software\\LDS Church\\FamilySearch\\Personal Ancestral File 5\\Options]
"ShowLDS"=dword:00000001
"ShowLdsRpt"=dword:00000001
2. Copy the file usp10.dll from a windows installation of PAF into the wine windows directory: c:\\windows\\system32
3. Add c:\\windows\\system32 to the path setting in the wine user config file
4. copy all files from a windows installation of PAF from
c:\\Program Files\\FamilySearch\\Paf5 to the corresponding wine windows
directory.
5. Open PAF: wine paf5.exe
6. The dialog box asking if you would like the enter key to move to the next field appears without the text and buttons.
7. The "Welcome to PAF" dialog box opens and prompts with options
to create new database, open existing, etc. [At this point the original
tester experienced a crash that appears to have been a null-pointer
dereference. No one ever filed a bug report or otherwise provided more
information, so it looks like we've made progress.]
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.
by RJ Heddins on Friday September 1st 2023, 18:53
by Robert Riches on Friday September 1st 2023, 19:14
by Eric Underhill on Sunday March 20th 2016, 14:38
by Robert Riches on Sunday March 20th 2016, 18:24
My circumstances are now such that I probably will not be able to resume testing on new Wine releases unless there's a serious need for that to be done.
If you're using a newer Wine version than the 2013-2014 test results (or any Wine version for that matter), please feel free to add test results. At this point, any newer test result would be beneficial; there's no requirement to test a whole bunch of features.
Please inform if you'd like to become a maintainer of this AppDB page. I don't know what the current process is to add a maintainer but could probably find out.
by Wes on Saturday September 29th 2018, 14:08
The replacement for this software is Ancestral Quest -- version 14 installs properly but doesn't work right and version 15 won't install.
by Cason Adams on Wednesday November 21st 2018, 11:42
I downloaded from here:
mpafug.org/PAFprograms.html
From the terminal:
```sudo apt-get install wine-stable```
Really you can just open a terminal and type "wine " then drag the downloaded file into the terminal and press enter.
Once installed
```wine ```
I had to then change the fonts by doing the following:
Open PAF
ctrl + shift + p (opens the settings menu)
find tab with font icon.
update new fonts. It is hard to read but just click and you will get a prompt for a new font. I chose Arial.
by Greg Bell on Wednesday October 2nd 2019, 21:23
If you get a screen full of rectangles, here's what you need to do.
(for me there was no font icon)
ctrl + shift + p (opens the settings menu)
The font settings tab is the third from the left.
Click on it and you will see four or five vertical buttons. Each of those sets the font for a particular part of the UI. Click the button, and you'll get a readable font dialog. Set a font (make it something common like Arial - not all fonts listed worked). Then click the leftmost button in the bottom of the dialog.
Repeat for each of the vertical buttons.