Wine Problem
 

I am running Fedora Core 3. Just downloaded the most recent Wine version
from winehq (wine-20050419-1fc3winehq.athlon.rpm). Also printed the
entire 58 page instruction manual. I installed the package using the
command line rpm command. Seemed to install OK. In section 3.2.1 of the
instruction manual, instructions are given to use tools/wineinstall for
the next step in the process of setting up wine. There IS no
wineinstall! I did an updatedb command and searched: no such file.

What could possibly be going on here?

Thanks so much for your help.

[QOUTE]There IS no
wineinstall![/QUOTE]

Are you sure you installed everything right. Post everything you did at shell. Make sure you are root.

--Abid Kazmi

Ok first of all, by tools, do you mean wine tools?

Second of all, you'll need wine tools as a GUI menu for Wine and you can use winelibs/lib to run win apps in Linux in a separate X window.

As far as, the wine tools if that is what you mean are concerned, you will need to download them. There should be a link on the winehq.com download page where to get them from.

What the instructions say are to continue installing wine, go to the folder created by wine install; tools; and ./wineinstall.

The GUI menu isn't needed to install wine. Stick with shell, its so much better =).

--Abid Kazmi

To Abid Kazmi:

I did this in a terminal window as su. The downloaded file

wine-20050419-1fc3winehq.athlon.rpm

was in a new directory all by itself. I issued the following command:

rpm -ivh wine-20050419-1fc3winehq.athlon.rpm

Many files were created all over the place, but none in the directory in which I had the above mentioned, downloaded rpm file. No file /tools/wineinstall was created as descibed in section 3.2.1 of the manual I printed from winehq.org.

Bill

Hmm.. if you su'ed, you used root, correct? I'm sorry for these small, tardy questions but sometimes they do help. What do you mean by "all over the place?"


PS: Why did you print the manual? Fifty-two pages is A LOT.

--Abid Kazmi

Abid,

I don't mind the questions. Actually, I don't remember now whether I did an su from a terminal window while logged in as a user or whether I logged out and then back in as root. Either way, I know I ran the rpm command as root.

By "all over the place" I meant that many files were created by the rpm in many different directories. Here are a couple:
/usr/bin
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/icons
/usr/share/fonts

But no /tools/wineinstall

Bill

Ok. So they installed in the correct /usr folders, heh. Did you check to see if there is a folder named tools in /, /usr, and where you did your initial rpm install?

--Abid Kazmi

I re-checked just now. No tools directory in any of those three directories.

P.S. I printed off the manual because I like to read and underline when necessary. As much as I enjoy and use computers, there are some things they do not replace--books, for one thing.

I just realized you should have posted on the Linux Gaming forum:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...php?forumid=33

Maybe the Moderator might be willing to move this thread there without you having to duplicate this thread.

--Abid Kazmi