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Hi, I'm also a Linux Newbie, there's alot of us! I also get the same error, I found gmessage but when I type in the rest of the command I still can't get it to work, any other ideas?
Have tried using rpmfind.net but disappointed, still no result. The wine program keeping prompting me the message: cannot find xmessage. Even tried using the command ln -s gmessage xmessage, still show me same message.
A bit pissed off with this wine software. I really need some solution to get msoffice running, is there other alternatives ? (other than crossover office, vmware, etc).
Thanks for the help and advice, but really very upset cos still figuring how to load the damn windoze software.
I have already download the most recent wine 20030318 but still cannot load the program. So anyone can email me the xmessage files and the procedure for loading this files to let wine detect it?
Originally posted by whodat do a whereis gmessage .. when you find it type ln -s gmessage xmessage using the appropriate path . Worked for me .
Elemental to most of you here maybe, but I'm new to linux and never was really good with windoze either. hmm.
Problem is: how do I do that? "using appropriate path"? Could someone please give a pausible example?
I installed wine and all that is missing now is this darned "xmessage"
I have XFree86-Contribs installed but still..
thank you for your time
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