Wine problems

yotamk · 01-14-2005, 04:04 PM

Running Debian sarge and Gnome, dual-boot with WinXP

Have installed Wine, because I need to run M$ Internet Explorer (OK now don't start. It's for my wife's college web account which does not support Firefox - she has to reboot everyday just to get her homework

).

When trying to launch IE, following messages return:

Code:

Please use the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG\Software\Fonts\LogPixels
to set the screen resolution and remove the "Resolution" entry in the config file
fixme:shell:StopWatchMode () stub!
fixme:seh:EXC_RtlRaiseException call to unimplemented function shdocvw.dll.IEWinMain
fixme:shell:MLGetUILanguage () stub
wine: Unhandled exception (thread 003c), starting debugger...
Usage: winedbg [--auto] [--gdb] cmdline

Also wine does succeed launching some other Windows applications (e.g. Irfanview), but in all cases, when trying to open a file from within the windows application, the "Open file" dialog box is empty with no file system to navigate and choose files from.

Anyway running IE would be enough for me (tired of rebooting).

Thanks.

acid_kewpie · 01-14-2005, 04:07 PM

you'd do a lot better to look at crossover office by codeweavers, this is a port of wine that's specifically and exclusively developed to support a few core applications, like IE, Photoshop and MS Office. only cost a few [insert unit of currency here] and it is worth it compared to the joys of raw wine.

yotamk · 01-14-2005, 04:13 PM

Not living in the US, and don't have international credit card.
Sorry, wish to solve this with wine, or with other (free) solutions

Any suggestions?

mhearn · 01-16-2005, 08:59 AM

1) Don't use the Debian packages for Wine. They are broken and wrong. Use the debs provided by WineHQ instead

2) Delete your ~/.wine before installing said official debs

3) Use the "sidenet" IE installer utility

yotamk · 01-17-2005, 03:01 PM

OK, followed mhearn 3 steps and looks like IE is installed fine, but it doesn't launch :(

Here is what I get When doing "wine iexplore":

"fixme:actctx:CreateActCtxW stub!
fixme:actctx:CreateActCtxW stub!
err:shell:ReadCabinetState Initializing shell cabinet settings
fixme:actctx:ActivateActCtx stub!
fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no classfactory created for CLSID {a5e46e3a-8849-11d1-9d8c-00c04fc99d61}, hres is 0x80040154
fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no classfactory created for CLSID {9ba05972-f6a8-11cf-a442-00a0c90a8f39}, hres is 0x80040150
fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no classfactory created for CLSID {ffdc1a80-d527-11d0-a32c-34af06c10000}, hres is 0x80040154
fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no classfactory created for CLSID {9ba05972-f6a8-11cf-a442-00a0c90a8f39}, hres is 0x80040150
fixme:actctx:DeactivateActCtx stub!
fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no classfactory created for CLSID {9ba05972-f6a8-11cf-a442-00a0c90a8f39}, hres is 0x80040150
Wine exited with a successful status"

Any ideas?

mhearn · 01-17-2005, 04:43 PM

I don't know. I didn't write sidenet. I wrote an older script - you could try that.

yotamk · 01-18-2005, 12:46 AM

Since I'm dual-booting, isn't there a way to run IE from my Window$ partition? Other Win apps run fine that way, but not the M$Office ones...

brynjarh · 01-20-2005, 06:58 AM

http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=ie6 - Read that.

Also, I think Opera is pretty compatible with IE, you might try using a native Linux version of Opera instead and see if that works --> http://www.opera.com/

If it works it would be better to use that then running IE under wine.

yotamk · 01-20-2005, 07:22 AM

"http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=ie6 - Read that" ...

Yes, did use sidenet installer as mhearn advised and as suggested at this link. IE is installed, but wouldn't run

Opera is a good idea.
Is it possible to apt-get opera (what should be the source line in sources.list), or must I use deb files?

Thanks.

brynjarh · 01-20-2005, 07:38 AM

It's not in the official repository but you can download a deb from Operas web site, you install it by doing 'dpkg -i <package-name>', if you get missing dependencies you do 'apt-get -f install' to fix it.

But it's better to have programs installed from a repository for easy updating and such so I search for a deb repository with Opera and this is what I found, I haven't tested it so I can't say if it works or not, but here is the info:

#The Opera Web Browser
# deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ stable non-free
# deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ testing non-free
# deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ unstable non-free

yotamk · 01-20-2005, 01:36 PM

OK, installed Opera, and it didn't solve my (wife's) problem. It doesn't get my wife's school web pages correctly (ho, those drop-down menus...).

So is there any other solution for me?

brynjarh · 01-20-2005, 02:29 PM

Email the webmaster of the site and ask him if he can make it work or just partly work for firefox (then it will most probably work for other browsers like epiphany, opera, etc..), you'll be surprised how easy it is to effects sites by doing that, I have done it a couple of times, they usually care for their users so it might work.

You should really try it.

But if that doesn't work I don't see any other option but to get IE working under Wine, but try emailing the webmaster of the site.

truiken · 02-09-2005, 08:18 PM

Use WineTools to install Internet Explorer. It works wonders.

http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/