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07-15-2003, 07:30 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Texas
Distribution: Red Hat 9, Windows 98 SE
Posts: 24
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Wine help!!!
I have just recently installed wine build 20030709 (the newest one). It seems to be working (wine is now a viable command in the shell and wine can run simplistic .exe programs), but when I try to install something a little more complex (i.e. msn messenger, windows media player ie 6), i receive the error "Please install a Windows OS". The program created a fake c:, but the program still doesn't work. Is there something more I need to download? Do I need to configure a file or something?
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07-15-2003, 07:37 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Texas
Distribution: Red Hat 9, Windows 98 SE
Posts: 24
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Just to clarify, I have only installed the wine software....nothing more. I can launch note pad and solitare.....thats about it
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07-15-2003, 09:23 PM
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Member
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Sammamish, WA, USA
Distribution: Gentoo
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I don't get sig #2
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07-15-2003, 09:55 PM
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Registered: Apr 2003
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Distribution: Slackware, Gentoo
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Neither of them are gonna work. And if that could be possible... it would take a lot of time to make it work.
There are lots of msn clients for linux, and great video players.
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07-15-2003, 11:05 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: May 2003
Location: Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
Distribution: slackware
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yah just like serz says....there is in fact lots of msn clients and video players for linux, and actually i personally think they are better than the windoze versions...
i recommend amsn for messanger, and my recommendation for video player is xine and if people reply to this they will more than likely recommend mplayer which is also a very good player, i just use xine more than mplayer.
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07-16-2003, 12:15 AM
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Member
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Sammamish, WA, USA
Distribution: Gentoo
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Get Gaim for an msn client. It's great. gaim.sourceforge.net
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