[SOLVED] Wine on usb install?

Alien Bob · 11-29-2016, 11:06 AM

I tested today on my own USB key with Slackware Live Edition 1.1.4 (Plasma5 variant). Actually, I am typing this text while running this Slackware Live.

The USB Live key is based on Slackware-current, not 14.2, but that should not matter I think.
I built a set of new wine 1.9.23 packages. Compiled the one I am testing with on Slackware64 14.2 and tested on slackware64-current (the live OS).

It works, no errors. I just ran "wine notepad" to see what would happen and it started the Windows notepad (wine edition) without any issue.

Now, about how I performed the test.

The Slackware Live is made multilib by using the liveslak multilib module which is already part of the PLASMA5 ISO but which you can download for any of the other Slackware-current based Live OS: http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/sla...ent-x86_64.sxz

Just put that file in the /liveslak/addons/ directory on the Linux partition of the USB key and it will be used autmoatically when the Live OS boots. No need to download and install all the individual multilib packages, because the liveslak module will be mounted and become part of the live filesystem.

To use Wine on Slackware Live Edition, you can download a liveslak module for wine and also for OpenAL-compat32 here: http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/slackware-live/bonus/
Dump the two module files into that same /liveslak/addons/ directory on the USB key. It will make wine available in the Live OS after booting, without the need to download and install any packages - wine and openal-compat32 will become part of the Live filesystem automatically.

If you do not use the PLASMA5 variant of Slackware Live Edition, then you will still be missing an OpenAL package. You can either download and install that one, or try your luck with the makemod script to create your own liveslak module out of it:

Code:

makemod /tmp/OpenAL-1.17.1-x86_64-1alien.txz 0060-OpenAL-1.17.1-current-x86_64.sxz

business_kid · 11-30-2016, 05:26 AM

Well, THAT did the business - No fuss, no messing, thank you very much.

I scrapped what I had, made the Plasma5 variant which is ~1G bigger and uses a different DE, copied ther stuff to the ~/addons directory

Code:

bash-4.3$ ls /mnt/dvd/liveslak/addons
0050-multilib-current-x86_64.sxz
0060-OpenAL-compat32-1.17.1-current-x86_64.sxz
0060-wine-1.9.23-current-x86_64.sxz
bash-4.3$

and away it went with no segfault. I could install my Bible encyclopedia under that environment and it sits neatly on the 8G

Code:

bash-4.3$ df -h         
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
[SNIP!]
/dev/sdb1      1004K     0 1004K   0% /mnt/hd
/dev/sdb2       100M   29M   72M  29% /mnt/tmp
/dev/sdb3       7.2G  5.6G  1.6G  79% /mnt/dvd
tmpfs           2.9G   68K  2.9G   1% /dev/shm
bash-4.3$

as you see, I have space to spare which is always nice, so it all fits. The Bible encyclopedia is ~500MB (checks)=1.4G unarchived but some things go back to 1950, so it's very handy. I'm left wondering why the other iso didn't do it, but not well able to trace it, but it could have been in the dependencies.

business_kid · 11-30-2016, 08:42 AM

The single fly in the ointment on this usb disk is internet connectivity, which is a luxury anyhow. Do you not have the ath9k module installed? It doesn't seem to be available, and wifi is not sitting up. It could of course be the bad offices of NetworkManager, which I never got on with.

Alien Bob · 11-30-2016, 02:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by business_kid

The single fly in the ointment on this usb disk is internet connectivity, which is a luxury anyhow. Do you not have the ath9k module installed? It doesn't seem to be available, and wifi is not sitting up. It could of course be the bad offices of NetworkManager, which I never got on with.

The ath9k module is part of the Slackware Live ISO (it is part of the Slackware kernel-modules package) so I do not know what your real issue is.

business_kid · 12-01-2016, 04:12 AM

I have 2 copies now of that live iso. I copied over rc.inet1, rc.inet1.conf, wpa_supplicant.conf & dhcpcd.conf from the hard disk install, but the wifi can't ping the router. I see NetworkManager in there and have to come to grips with that. It's not a huge deal - and the first one went online without too much bother.

business_kid · 12-01-2016, 08:09 AM

As you say ath9k is in there. It's going online now, just the various utilities to make going online easier competing over the wlan and not having the correct config, and actually making it messy. C'est la vie.