Hello there

The files I have are:

Wine-0.9.32-i486-1kjz.tgz
Winetools-1.30.tgz

I go to kpackage, select the files, click install and then get RESULT =0 at the end of each? Does that mean they’ve not installed? Can’t see it anywhere to launch it?

Running Slackware 11 with xfce

What do you get when you enter `which wine` or `wine --version` at the command prompt?

If you get an answer like "/usr/local/bin/wine" or "wine-0.9.xx", respectively, then the install worked.

If not...then we'll see what we can do.

Usually though, if a program reports a code of "0" it has worked.

Hi - You're right I get /usr/bin/wine

Forgive my ignorance but how do i get it to run or appear on screen? I've gone to the bin directory and double clicked on it and nothing happens?

Edit: Also, when I click on almost any of the other wine icons, i get the same first few lines of text in any terminal that might appear:

Just open a console and type:
wine bla-bla-bla.exe,
where bla-bla-bla.exe is a windows executable.

Since you said that you were using kpackage, I am assuming that you are using KDE. I am not that familiar with KDE since I have used fluxbox for quite some time now. (You get rusty ). It is possible that kpackage put a menu item in the KDE menus under menus that pop up under the K at the lower left of your screen. Look through those to see if you can see it somewhere. As an alternative you can start a Konsole session and enter `wine /name/of/program &` at the command prompt, or you can use the command entry utility under that K menu to enter the command.

That having been said, you will usually use wine to run a Windows program that you have already installed. If you have a CD with a Windows program's installer on it, you could mount the CD, navigate to the setup.exe directory, and then give the command `wine ./setup.exe`. That should start the installer within wine and install the application to your wine's c_drive directory.

You might find that wine will not work without a 2.6 kernel.
The "NPTL or TLS" error will then go away.

Eric

Thanks for the fast replies and it's XFCE I'm using, not a big fan of KDE

its a demo for the first half-life im trying to run and the files called hluplink.exe

typed in wine /mnt/usb-pendrive/hluplink.exe and got a lot of text come up, the last few lines are

process tid prio (all id:s are in hex)
000000008 (D) Z:mnt\usb-pendrive\hluplink.exe
000000009 0 <==

There was a lot of text before that and at the very start of it all I got the same message as last time:

*Would just like to say thanks for your patience, have only just installed Slack today and before that I had another distro and the support forum there just wasn't very helpful at all, every reply was the same, read the FAQ/Wiki and in my short three/four month experience, referring a newbie to a great big dirty ten thousand page document (which nine out of ten times doesn't even answer the original question and might as well be written in machine code) just isn't very supportfull, I can understand why 'we get told to read the FAQ etc but I think most or some people learn far more by being showed what to do and learning by doing rather than digesting a cold user guide - getting off track now, but if you see what I mean... thanks

Another edit: Also, when i just use "wine hluplink.exe" i get (ontop of the normal error)

Thanks Eric, so i might need to change my kernel?

Well, if you are not currently running a 2.6.x kernel ... then yes, you might wanna install one if you plan on running wine.

Ok I'll give that a go thanks, do you have a link that'll walk me through that? ...just taken a look in bin and wines gone!

There is a ready-to-install 2.6 kernel in the /extra/linux-2.6.17.13 directory of Slackware-11.0

Install (using installpkg) the packages named kernel-generic, kernel-modules and perhaps the kernel-source packages you find there. Don't bother with the kernel-headers package.

Then, add something like this to your /etc/lilo.conf (for instance all the way at the bottom of the file) and then re-run the "lilo" command:
Make sure the /dev/hda1 is replaced with your own root partition.
When rebooting the linux26 label will boot your computer into the 2.6 kernel.
If you want to make this the default boot kernel, also add the line
somewhere in the beginning (the global section) of "/etc/lilo.conf"

Eric

Thanks for the info Eric, I couldn't manage to do what you said so I just did a complete reinstall and chose the huge26 kernel when prompted, installation and booting up went fine but when i startx and get to the Xfce desktop I have no use of my mouse (touchpad or the red nipple thing that you get with IBM laptops)

...I'm quite happy to use any kernel really that'll just let me play half-life 1 for when I have to work long Saturdays and there's no actual work to be done, if there's anyway of getting half-life 1 to run on the standard kernel for Slackware 11 then I'd love to hear it

You do need a 2.6 kernel. When you install and use the huge26.s kernel, you do need to install the /extra/linux-2.6.17.13/kernel-modules-2.6.17.13-i486-1.tgz package because that huge26.s kernel lacks a lot of stuff for daily use )such as mouse drivers' that are included in that kernel/modules package.
During installation of Slackware 11.0 when you read the screen texts carefully, you would have noticed that this advice is repeated on/screen.
After running
and a reboot, your mouse and network should work fine.

Eric

Thanks again Eric, tried

installpkg mnt/cdrom/extra/linux-2.6.17.13/kernel-modules-2.6.17.13-i486-1.tgz

and

installpkg media/cdrom/extra/linux-2.6.17.13/kernel-modules-2.6.17.13-i486-1.tgz


and got for the both of them

Cannot install media/cdrom/extra/linux-2.6.17.13/kernel-modules-2.6.17.13-i486-1.tgz
: package does not end in .tgz?


...its the second install disk I have inserted, tried it with the first one too and no luck....

I assume you did mount your CDROM first on /mnt/cdrom and verified that there was indeed a file called /mnt/cdrom/extra/linux-2.6.17.13/kernel-modules-2.6.17.13-i486-1.tgz before you tried to install it?

Eric