Installing SourceInsight On ubuntu 10.10

To install Source Insight on a linux PC, firstly you need to install a tool called "wine".   

With ubuntu 10.10, this can be very easy because of the availability of the apt-get install.

Just a few steps:

1. Run the following:
   sudo apt-get install flex bison  
   sudo apt-get install wine

2. Then run:
    wine Si3563Setup.exe

    Then follow the instructions to install the source Insight step by step.

3.  create the file below:

    ~/.bash_aliases

4. sudo vim ~/.bash_aliases
   Add the following line:
   alias ss="wine \"C:\Program Files\Source Insight 3\Insight3.exe\""

Restart the console, and type "ss", the source insight will be up and running.

Just run "winecfg" to create virtual hard disk drives and put what ever source code files over the virtual disk, you will be able to manage you Source Insighgt Projects as if you were doing it on your windows system