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Need wine install help

Hello, I am obviously new (3 days) at this Linux thing and am trying to get my feet wet here. I have a Windows based program called StormPredator which is a weather radar type of program for the PC. Anyways, I understand I need wine to, maybe, install the .exe. I found the wine packages but am unsure how to install it or use it. I did go to the winehq page and found the packages and tried to install wine with my Package Manager but I got lost. I need a simple direction for the newbie with all of these new terms it is a bit intimidating.
I have installed Ubuntu 7.10 gutsy gibbon on a dual boot disk 160hd sharing with windows xp

thanks in advance

open up synaptic and search for wine, and install the corresponding package
then open up nautilus and navigate to the exe file and double click on it

OR....In a terminal:

wine filename.exe

If it will not run with WINE, you might try CrossOver. (The commercial port of WINE--it is free for a 30-day trial period.)

I think part of the problem I am having is operating the Synaptic Mgr. I found wine not installed and checked it to have it installed and clicked ok and nothing happens. I am not figuring out how to download it.

After selecting "mark for installation", click the apply button on the tool bar. Confirm / OK on any dialogs which appear.

whew! made it through that. Now I tried to find that nautilus which appears nowhere in the wine files. But I did download the exe program and right clicked on it and was able to open with wine. all was looking promising until a box popped up as to where to install the program. I picked a folder called Z:ECT and off it went again until it stopped because it was unable to install the uninstall files. I really don't understand the file structure yet to do much but I wont give up.

Just install in the default location for the program - presumably this is C:\Program Files\something. The actual files will go in [your home directory/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/something, but don't worry about that.

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Originally Posted by popman (Post 2990070)

nautilus is the gnome file manager

Ok, a bit more success. It appeared to install at the default location, C:\program files\stormpredator which I am not sure if it is reading my Windows files or not as I am setup on a dual boot system now. But anyhow, there is an icon on the desktop for that program (a wine glass nonetheless) but it wont do anything when I click on it. So does it not work with wine?

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Originally Posted by popman (Post 2990101)

Wine does not use your windows partition unless you spend some time to set it up. If you look in the .wine/drive_c/ directory in your home folder you will see all the files you have installed into wine. To see the .wine directory, you'll need to select View -> Show Hidden Files in nautilus (the file browser). You can also press control-L to type in a location and enter ~/.wine (~ is a quick way to refer to your home directory).

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Originally Posted by popman (Post 2990101)

But anyhow, there is an icon on the desktop for that program (a wine glass nonetheless) but it wont do anything when I click on it. So does it not work with wine?

I was curious, so I installed the program and found the same thing.

Then I ran it from a terminal to see if there was any extra information, and found this (commands I typed are shown here prefixed with $):

Code:

$ cd .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/StormPredator/

$ wine StormPredator.exe

err:module:import_dll Library MFC42.DLL (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\StormPredator\\StormPredator.exe") not found

err:module:import_dll Library MSVCP60.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\StormPredator\\StormPredator.exe") not found

err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\Program Files\\StormPredator\\StormPredator.exe" failed, status c0000135

I'll bet you can find these files on your windows partition. I found a copy on an XP CD which I have (I had to extract them from cabinet files).

I copied them to the StormPredator directory and ran again, and it seemed to sort of work. It complains that I don't have enough memory and that I should have a directx9 video card installed. I presume that means that I need directx 9 as well, which I don't know anything about. It's been ages since I ran windows apps, and I feel rather out of touch.

Anyhow, I hope that helps. At least it should give some insight into the sort of fiddling which is sometimes necessary to get apps working in wine.