Wine help!!!

werley_123 · 07-15-2003, 06:30 PM

I have just recently installed wine build 20030709 (the newest one). It seems to be working (wine is now a viable command in the shell and wine can run simplistic .exe programs), but when I try to install something a little more complex (i.e. msn messenger, windows media player ie 6), i receive the error "Please install a Windows OS". The program created a fake c:, but the program still doesn't work. Is there something more I need to download? Do I need to configure a file or something?

werley_123 · 07-15-2003, 06:37 PM

Just to clarify, I have only installed the wine software....nothing more. I can launch note pad and solitare.....thats about it

warkrime · 07-15-2003, 08:23 PM

I don't get sig #2

serz · 07-15-2003, 08:55 PM

Neither of them are gonna work. And if that could be possible... it would take a lot of time to make it work.

There are lots of msn clients for linux, and great video players.

DrOzz · 07-15-2003, 10:05 PM

yah just like serz says....there is in fact lots of msn clients and video players for linux, and actually i personally think they are better than the windoze versions...
i recommend amsn for messanger, and my recommendation for video player is xine and if people reply to this they will more than likely recommend mplayer which is also a very good player, i just use xine more than mplayer.

warkrime · 07-15-2003, 11:15 PM

Get Gaim for an msn client. It's great. gaim.sourceforge.net