WineX - windows installation not found?
 

I'm installing wineX and it says it cannot find an existing windows installation at the end of the install. But my fstab has a working windows line in it. What's going on?

Last time I installed winex which is a while ago you still needed to setup the path to your drives and configure it manually.I usually let winesetuptk configure it since I am too lazy to go thru the doc's.Also make sure your M$ partition is mounted if you want to use it.

I'm configuring it manually, and now it's asking for /home/orange400/.wine/wineserver-localhost.localdomain/socket. What should I do for that?

No idea - get winesetuptk.That normally sets the wine config file file with all the drives in about three clicks.If you need any special dll's you can take it from there then.

I think I'm just going to try an rpm ...

nah still does the same thing. I'm gonna try winesetuptk ...

Wow! Winesetuptk is awesome! That thing's a keeper even if it's beta ...

[orange400@localhost orange400]$ winex /mnt/windows/Program\ Files/Audacity/audacity-win-1_0_0/audacity.exe
wine: lstat /home/orange400/.transgaming/wineserver-localhost.localdomain/socket : No such file or directory
[orange400@localhost orange400]$

still does this though

Sorry - can't help you there.Idon't have a file like this anywhere either.But I use plain wine - not winex.

Correction - what do you got there?
Seems that there is winex and winex-transgaming.I can't install winex-transgaming at all - I think you got to pay up for that first.
Try winex.

I want to get rid of winex now, heh. Found the solution ... the entire folder has to be deleted before you run it. And it creates it every time again and again. But I installed it with an RPM package, and I can't find the rpm name to remove it! Any ideas?

PS I'm going to just stick with the regular wine, I got way more success with that.

I also have a read-only NTFS filesystem mounted as my windows folder ... do you think this would be the cause of most of the programs not functioning correctly or running at all?

Sorry - I don't do rpm's.Can't you just do 'find transgaming' or winex or whereis?
I don't think NTFS is the problem.From my experience with wine - which is not a lot BTW - the performance of wine varies a lot between different releases and even on different distros.
Tried virtualdub with wine 20021125 - didn't even install.With 20030115 it works.With 20030209 it doesn't.
Also some programs need dll's that are not included but you can copy those from your Win partition if you don't use it with wine or find them on the internet.
Sometimes you can get useful hints about how to get app's to work with a search on the net.Some of the hints are bull though.

Hey copying those dlls is a good idea, I'll try that. I remember seeing some error messages related to dlls. As for uninstalling, I dunno. rpm -e [name] is kinda like saying make uninstall in the winex directory. I guess I have to fish around for a while.