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Running Novell Support Advisor on Ubuntu

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14 May 2010 - 4:57pm
Submitted by: thsundel

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  1. Install Wine in Ubuntu Software Center
  2. Download the latest Windows version of NSA from http://support.novell.com/advisor/
  3. Open Terminal and run: wine /path/to/NSA_2.0.0.exe
  4. Go through the install next, next.. install... ignore error... finish
  5. Open Nautilus and go to: /home/username/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Novell/SupportAdvisor
  6. Double click NSA.air and click install, continue
  7. NSA will startup and ask you to create a database, choose what you want, I chose to encrypt my DB
  8. Close NSA by right mouse click NSA in the taskbar and select close
  9. Double click NSA.air again and click Run Now
  10. Voila

Disclaimer: As with everything else at Cool Solutions, this content is definitely not supported by Novell (so don't even think of calling Support if you try something and it blows up).

It was contributed by a community member and is published "as is." It seems to have worked for at least one person, and might work for you. But please be sure to test, test, test before you do anything drastic with it.




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