Wine

citizen_lc · 04-03-2005, 07:55 AM

Hello,
I know it's stupid question but... I just have download Wine for Slackware (Wine-20050310-i486-S10.tgz, that contains directories usr i install), enter into install directory, typed sh doinst.sh and I don't know what to do later

I tried to type wine /mnt/windows/system32/sol.exe but bash says "wine: command not found".
I browsed some forums an I was tried to find on official Wine page (winehq.com) but I haven't found any information. Please, help me...
Best regards

junme · 04-03-2005, 08:01 AM

try "winesetup"

citizen_lc · 04-03-2005, 08:36 AM

in which directory? install, usr or where? typed in console: winesetup: command not found

JohnKFT · 04-03-2005, 08:47 AM

Go here : http://www.frankscorner.org/

This is an excellent resource for Wine info. Wine has to be set up properly which is quite tricky. I use Winetools from this site and it is very good. But read all the info on the site first.

PS Are you sure you installed Wine properly? You should have just done :

installpkg Wine ----etc as root.

Look in /var/log/packages for wine and see what files are listed. There should be a /usr/bin/wine which you do not appear to have.

citizen_lc · 04-03-2005, 09:15 AM

it's possible I'm absolutely blind, but I can't find any informations about just installing, not running or something like this. if there is no step-by-step tutorial for absolute newbies? I promise that if I will run Wine I will write this tutorial.

lagartoflojo · 04-03-2005, 10:42 AM

All Slackware packages (files with the .tgz extension) are installed with a simple command:

Code:

installpkg file.tgz

In your case, you want to go in a terminal, 'cd' to the directory where the Wine-20050310-i486-S10.tgz file is located, type

Code:

su

and press enter, then type your root password. Then you are ready to install any package, so type this:

Code:

installpkg Wine-20050310-i486-S10.tgz

After that's done you should type

Code:

exit

to get out of 'root-mode'. Now you can do

Code:

wine /mnt/windows/system32/sol.exe

and it should work right. Hope this helps.

-- L*F

PS: Not ALL files with the .tgz files are Slackware packages, so don't "installpkg" a file unless you know that it is. Sometimes they are source code: programmers use the tgz extension to replace tar.gz.

citizen_lc · 04-03-2005, 11:30 AM

Thanks a lot, it works... Almost...
I was trying to run sol.exe from Windows XP. I think I should configure wine to give an access to this data.... Am I right?

wine: Unhandled exception (thread 0009), starting debugger... ----> from console (it was a lot of mistakes like this)

lagartoflojo · 04-03-2005, 03:16 PM

Hmm... Maybe what you mean is that you want wine to imitate WinXP. In that case, you want to go to your ~/.wine/wine.conf file and look at the pertinent line:

Code:

[Version]
; Windows version to imitate (win95,win98,winme,nt351,nt40,win2k,winxp,win2k3,win20,win30,win31)
"Windows" = "winxp"

I copied the sol.exe and the cards.dll files from my windows installation into my home directory. Then I run wine sol.exe and it works perfectly. I hope this helps.

-- L*F

fcaraballo · 04-03-2005, 03:21 PM

After you install the wine package you need to run wineprefixcreate as your user. This creates your fake windows tree. Then you can put your files for sol, as mentioned above, in the .wine/drive_c/Program Files directory in your users home directory.

MagicMan