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10-31-2002, 07:53 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2002
Location: Canada
Distribution: Mandrake 9
Posts: 3
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wine can't find xmessage!
Hi.
I just installed wine. Whenever I try to run a windows application (like notepad.exe) using the wine command, I get something like
Warning:
The Wine launcher is unable to find the xmessage program,
which it needs to properly notify you of Wine execution status
or problems.
I searched for xmessage but could not find a good site that explains this well.
Could someone help me with this.
Thank you in advance.
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10-31-2002, 11:03 AM
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#2
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Member
Registered: Oct 2002
Location: the Netherlands
Distribution: Debian - Sid
Posts: 33
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Have you downloaded the source and build wine or did you use a pre-build package (.deb/.rpm) ???
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10-31-2002, 11:36 AM
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#3
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2002
Location: Canada
Distribution: Mandrake 9
Posts: 3
Original Poster
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I used pre build package .rpm
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01-03-2003, 05:50 AM
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#4
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2003
Distribution: mandrake
Posts: 2
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do a whereis gmessage .. when you find it type ln -s gmessage xmessage using the appropriate path . Worked for me .
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02-08-2003, 12:24 AM
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#5
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2003
Location: Halifax Nova Scotia
Distribution: Mandrake 10.1 and Topogo Linux
Posts: 12
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Hi, I'm also a Linux Newbie, there's alot of us! I also get the same error, I found gmessage but when I type in the rest of the command I still can't get it to work, any other ideas?

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02-09-2003, 03:11 AM
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#6
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Birmingham UK
Distribution: Various
Posts: 1,736
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yes
install XFree86-Contribs
xmessage is part of this
wine will then run fine
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02-09-2003, 01:41 PM
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#7
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2003
Location: Halifax Nova Scotia
Distribution: Mandrake 10.1 and Topogo Linux
Posts: 12
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thanx, got it to work
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03-29-2003, 09:37 PM
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#8
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 26
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So can you kindly tell me where i can download this XFree86-Contribs files? I am using MK8.2 currently and i cannot find it in the disc.
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03-30-2003, 12:38 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Birmingham UK
Distribution: Various
Posts: 1,736
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on mdk 9 it appears in the extras section for gnome and kde
if not
get the precise version number for your xfree86 and try
http://rpmfind.net
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03-31-2003, 09:16 AM
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#10
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 26
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Have tried using rpmfind.net but disappointed, still no result. The wine program keeping prompting me the message: cannot find xmessage. Even tried using the command ln -s gmessage xmessage, still show me same message.
A bit pissed off with this wine software. I really need some solution to get msoffice running, is there other alternatives ? (other than crossover office, vmware, etc).
Thanks for the help and advice, but really very upset cos still figuring how to load the damn windoze software.
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03-31-2003, 11:28 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Birmingham UK
Distribution: Various
Posts: 1,736
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put up a new post asking for help on this
someone may copy it from their disk and mail it to you
alternatively get the latest version of wine (this MAY help but i can't be sure)
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04-01-2003, 08:09 AM
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#12
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 26
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I have already download the most recent wine 20030318 but still cannot load the program. So anyone can email me the xmessage files and the procedure for loading this files to let wine detect it?
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04-06-2003, 10:36 AM
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#13
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Finland
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 18
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Quote:
Originally posted by whodat
do a whereis gmessage .. when you find it type ln -s gmessage xmessage using the appropriate path . Worked for me .
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Elemental to most of you here maybe, but I'm new to linux and never was really good with windoze either. hmm.
Problem is: how do I do that? "using appropriate path"? Could someone please give a pausible example?
I installed wine and all that is missing now is this darned "xmessage"
I have XFree86-Contribs installed but still..
thank you for your time
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04-06-2003, 04:28 PM
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#14
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Finland
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 18
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to the top
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06-15-2003, 02:23 PM
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#15
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Ottawa, ON, Canada
Distribution: Mandrake 9.1
Posts: 1
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On Mandrake 9.1 the package is actually called X11R6-contrib. Which is odd as almost all of their X packages are called XFree86-[blah]. Ah well.
Matt
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