Gramps

What works

Installation (except that no menu or desktop shortcuts are created)

Running the application from the command line

from the terminal type "wine cmd" and then
cd C:\Program Files\gramps

press enter and type  "c:\python25\python gramps.py" at the cmd line

C:\Program Files\gramps>c:\python25\python gramps.py

gramps will start.

Importing a GEDCOM

What does not

Installing the dependencies for gramps using Python 2.5.x in the order listed on the "Windows insta­ller" wiki page:

(1)Python 2.5.4 (installs ok & works) (used wine msiexec /i python-2.5.4.msi)
(2)GTK+ 2.12.9  (gtk-dev-2.12.9-win32-2.exe) (installs ok & running "gtk demo" from the wine menu works ok / the Glade desktop icon gives "Error: File not found / "Theme Selector" starts ok and changing themes works)
(3)pygtk-2.12.1-3.win32-py2.5.exe (installs ok)
(4)pygobject-2.12.3-1.win32-py2.5.exe (installs ok)
(5)pycairo-1.2.6-1.win32-py2.5.exe (installs ok)
(6)Validating the dependencies (before trying to install gramps) have installed correctly,
[step 1] wine cmd (works)
[step 2] gtk-demo (works ok with error messages:

Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": Module not found
(gtk-demo.exe:27): Pango-WARNING **: couldn't load font "MS Shell Dlg Not-Rotated 8", falling back to "Sans Not-Rotated 8", expect ugly output.

[step 3a] python (works ok)
[step 3b&c] skipped as (3a) worked
[step 4a] import pygtk (works ok)
[step 4b] import gtk (works ok with error message:

Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": Module not found

[step 4c] import gobject (works ok)
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[Additional plugins] results are:
(Spell Checking)
pyenchant-1.5.3.win32.exe (installs ok)
PyGTKSpell-2.25.3.win32-py2.5.exe (installs ok)
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Installing Gramps (works ok but no menu entries or desktop icon are created)

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Running Gramps from the wine cmdshows the following results

Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": Module not found
Date parser for English_Australia not available, using default
Date displayer for English_Australia not available, using default
C:\Program Files\gramps\gui\viewmanager.py:359: PangoWarning: couldn't load font "MS Shell Dlg Not-Rotated 8", falling back to "Sans Not-Rotated 8", expect ugly output.
  self.window.realize()
C:\Program Files\gramps\gui\viewmanager.py:359: PangoWarning: couldn't load font "MS Shell Dlg 8", falling back to "Sans 8", expect ugly output.
  self.window.realize()
C:\Program Files\gramps\glade.py:126: GtkWarning: Unknown property: GtkVBox.orientation
  self.add_from_file(path)
C:\Program Files\gramps\gui\viewmanager.py:614: PangoWarning: couldn't load font "MS Shell Dlg Bold Italic Not-Rotated 8", falling back to "Sans Bold Italic Not-Rotated 8", expect ugly output.
  self.window.show()
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\rcs.exe"
C:\Program Files\gramps\glade.py:126: GtkWarning: Unknown property: GtkVButtonBox.orientation
  self.add_from_file(path)

Workarounds

What was not tested

almost everything not mentioned

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

(Bronze because of the missing menu entries and desktop icon) Version: 3.2.3