Safari and QuickTime

Alright. So Apple releases Safari about the time I switch back to Linux for a bit. That just means I have to be resourceful.

As I’m off sick today, I took the time to watch the Apple WWDC ‘07 keynote speech by Steve Jobs. So like any good user, I go to the Apple website to go watch the keynote, however, I find out that I need quicktime to watch it (and that Ubuntu’s QuickTime drivers don’t make the cut). So I install wine, and actually install QuickTime, and watch the entire keynote on a 99% functioning QuickTime (only lagging .2 secs off audio, but I could have fixed that by switching sound drivers).

Then I tried installing Safari. Come to find out, Safari will install, just crap out on execution. Some people have been able to get Safari to run under wine, but it hasn’t been very good. Here’s some screenshots of my experiment.

Installation of Safari

Safari Installed Errornously

The only problem, I couldn’t install Bonjour, or Apple Updates. Other than that, the installation was really fast.

Execution failed, and by some googling, those who actually got it to work, didn’t have that great of an experience. So I’ll save my future Safari Experience for when I’m back in XP.