Editing Getting Started with Gina on Linux

=== <u>Requirements</u> ===
*wine
*winetricks

=== <u>Tested Linux Distro</u> ===
*Ubuntu20.04
*Ubuntu22.04
*MX Linux
*openSUSE Tumbleweed

=== <u>Installating the requirements</u> ===
This is an example on how to set up the requirements on a brand new Ubuntu22.04 after it's first boot.

Definitly adjust to suit your need and your distribution.

 sudo apt update
 sudo apt upgrade
 reboot
 sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
 sudo wget -nc -O /usr/share/keyrings/winehq-archive.key https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key
 sudo wget -nc -P /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/jammy/winehq-jammy.sources
 sudo apt update
 sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-staging
 sudo apt install winetricks

=== <u>Installing Gina</u> ===

 WINEPREFIX="$HOME/Gina" WINEARCH=win32 wine wineboot
 WINEPREFIX="$HOME/Gina" winetricks -q sapi
 WINEPREFIX="$HOME/Gina" winetricks --force -q dotnet462
 wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/espeak/files/espeak/espeak-1.48/setup_espeak-1.48.04.exe -P "$HOME/Gina/"
 WINEPREFIX="$HOME/Gina" wine $HOME/Gina/setup_espeak-1.48.04.exe
 wget https://eq.gimasoft.com/GINA/setup.exe -P "$HOME/Gina/"
 WINEPREFIX="$HOME/Gina" wine $HOME/Gina/setup.exe
 mv $HOME/Desktop/GINA.appref-ms $HOME/Gina

=== <u>Running Gina</u> ===
This command will also print debug output. (may be usefull if an issue has to be corrected at some point)

 WINEPREFIX="$HOME/Gina" wine $HOME/Gina/GINA.appref-ms

To remove the wine debug output, use this instead.

 WINEPREFIX="$HOME/Gina" WINEDEBUG=-all wine $HOME/Gina/GINA.appref-ms

=== <u>Stopping Gina</u> ===
Once you close the application, there are some lingering wine process that does not stop completly.

I think it's related to Gina being a ClickOnce type application.

Using the following will do a clean shutdown of your wine Gina prefix.

 WINEPREFIX="$HOME/Gina" wineserver -k -w

=== <u>What works</u> ===

*Pretty much everything that I managed to test so far
*Text to speech included

=== <u>What does not work</u> ===
*N/A

=== <u>Reference</u> ===
*https://eq.gimasoft.com/gina/Default.aspx
*https://www.takproject.net/forums/index.php?threads/gina-under-linux.23164/