Wine , Internet Explorer and BitLord
 

I am using RHEL4. First linux distro i've used. Been on it for about 2 weeks now. I've mounted my multiple hard drives yada yada, and installed lotsa software. having some fun thus far. Now I am decided to up my knowledge and know-how of linux, and installed wine (20040911 i believe). I 'successfully' installed Bitlord as a test software using just wine. Then when i tried to run it it asked me to download msxml3 ------ long story short, I found out that i need IE to run it, so i got winetools. That installed fine, but ie isnt installing cuz it keeps downloading the damn sp1 from the website. filename is ie6setup.exe , but it just aint installing. the wine config is set to think its in win98, i have setup the fake windows directory, the error message i get is below

In 32 bit mode.
Register dump:
CS:0073 SS:007b DS:007b ES:007b FS:003b GS:0033
EIP:500b354f ESP:0072fd3c EBP:0072fd90 EFLAGS:00210212( - 00 - RIA1)
EAX:00570000 EBX:00a49da4 ECX:00000040 EDX:77bd04d8
ESI:781404dc EDI:500c7ab8
Stack dump:
0x0072fd3c: 00000001 00000001 00a49da4 00000044
0x0072fd4c: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0x0072fd5c: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0x0072fd6c: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0x0072fd7c: 77bd04d8 00000008 0000000c 00000010
0x0072fd8c: 00570000 0072fdb0 500b20e3 500b218b
Backtrace:
=>1 0x500b354f (0x0072fd90)
2 0x500b20e3 (0x0072fdb0)
3 0x00a2282a call_dll_entry_point+0x12 in ntdll (0x0072fdc8)
4 0x00a23777 call_dll_entry_point+0xf5f in ntdll (0x0072fe34)
5 0x00a238b2 (0x0072fe58)
6 0x00a23886 (0x0072fe78)
7 0x00a25803 LdrInitializeThunk+0x1f7 in ntdll (0x0072ff20)
8 0x00f416d0 (0x0072fff4)
9 0x001153b9 wine_switch_to_stack+0x11 in libwine.so.1 (0x00000000)
0x500b354f: repe movsl (%esi),%es:(%edi)
Wine-dbg>WineDbg terminated on pid 0x1c
fixme:crypt:CryptRegisterDefaultOIDFunction (1,CertDllVerifyRevocation,0,L"mscrlrev.dll") stub!
fixme:setupapi:GenInstall16 unsupported flag: GENINSTALL_DO_REGSRCPATH
err:setupapi:SetupDefaultQueueCallbackA copy error 32 "C:\\windows\\msdownld.tmp\\AS004806.tmp\\OLEAUT32.DLL" -> "c:\\windows\\system\\OLEAUT32.DLL"
fixme:setupapi:GenInstall16 unsupported flag: GENINSTALL_DO_CFGAUTO


bah... windows bluescreening while not in windows. pos. anyways. Could anybody perhaps outline some steps that i could follow ? Many thanks,

>Enjoying my rhel
motu


(p.s. if anybody cares to explain what freebsd/openbsd is , a link will do)

They are operating systems.

FreeBSD
OpenBSD

just as a side note, there are linux torrent clients that work without the use of wine. wine has a lot of problems with a lot of software.

if you get the crossover office or cedega projects (have to pay for them) you will have way better support for products and things will go smoother if you just have to run windows products.

crossover office used to offer a free 30 day trial of their software, no clue if they still do, but cedega does not offer a free trial.

the only distro that i have seen that has a KNOWN issue with cedega is Debian-sarge. there are several issues with sarge, but not woody or sid. go figure.

thats no worries guys, i was just testing wine out on that specific proggie, wanted to see how windows dependencies are supported in wine. was basically just setting up the environment so that i could use it later with other windows proggies that I ca(o)me across.

Peace

Try the steps below:
1) mv ~/.wine to ~/.wineold
2) run winetools (it should be wt)
3) With winetools, make a fake Windows directory
4) With winetools, install DOM95
5) With winetools, install Internet Explorer

You should be able to run Internet Explorer by typing ie6. The file ie6 will be under $HOME/bin or ~/bin.

If Internet Explorer works, you can delete the directory ~/.wineold. Next you can install any Windows program.

Like what Lleb_KCir said, you do not need to use wine to use bitTorrent clients. There are many for Linux. I use Azureus because it is simple to use and it runs on many OS because it is a JAVA based program.

the only problem with Azureus in linux is getting java to run on your distro.

its a major PITA to get it running on a debian system.