Recommended OS and WineHQ version for QChartist
After intensive use of the QChartist software under Linux with WineHQ, i found that QC GUI often crashs with Wine >= 5. The problem seems to deal with the widgets of the wine Windows graphical API.
To avoid frequent crash of QC under Linux, please don’t install Wine 5 or superior, install Wine 4 or inferior. For Debian 12 use the deb packages from https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/pool/main/ and install them manually with synaptic, apt, gdebi-gtk and dpkg -i.
It is also recommended to use the Gnome graphical interface. Avoid LXDE which is lite but often crashs.
Also run away from proprietary OS like Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Android, MacOS or Windows > 7. They often contain spyware or trackers.
Prefer a real GNU OS like Debian GNU Linux or FreeBSD.
I personally work with Debian GNU Linux OS, with the gnome-panel graphical interface ; and i had to install Wine 4.
QChartist seems to be much more stable since then.
If you need to stay under Windows the best option is Windows 7. Avoid Windows 11, QC crashs too much under this OS ; and the connection often timeouts.
To install Wine 4 .deb packages you can use synaptic and gdebi-gtk and dpkg -i
Under Debian, you may have to type this before using dpkg :
export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
To install a specific version of a package with apt use : apt-get install winehq-stable=4.0.0~yourdistro-1
Before installing packages, you should enable i386 architecture for Wine with :
sudo dpkg –add-architecture i386 && sudo apt update
You may need to add the Wine repository PPA :
edit the sources.list file with :
nano /etc/apt/sources.list
and add this line in the file :
deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/ bullseye main
(change the debian/ bullseye entry with your OS version)
then import the wine key with :
wget https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key
apt-key add winehq.key
apt-get update
Under Linux, you may also need to associate .exe files with Wine. You may need to copy wine.desktop to /usr/share/applications or to $HOME/.local/share/applications/. You will find wine.desktop in /usr/share/doc/wine/examples/wine.desktop. Then you can associate .exe files with Wine under the Nautilus file explorer. I had to do this under Debian.
You may also need to download and copy these Fonts to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts/
After installing and running QC update.exe, to recompile QC with QTStart.bat, under the terminal use :
wineconsole cmd
c:
cd qchartist
qtstart.bat
Hope this helps