Wine help needed (install)

Ogledbyoldmen · 09-20-2003, 07:35 PM

Alright I've tried to do this a couple times, and frankly being a newb, I'm begining to get a wee disgruntled. Wine, obviously not for newbs.

Can someone please explain step by step how to install Wine, and a place to download with instructions specifically for that dl.

Please keep in mind the newb factor. Thanks.

contrasutra · 09-20-2003, 09:14 PM

It should come with your distro. Just install it from your discs.

If you are using an RPM based distro, do (as root):

rpm -Uvh /path/to/wine.rpm

DrOzz · 09-20-2003, 09:29 PM

wine isn't packed with redhat9, but it is with redhat8, anyways, with that said, go here and download this rpm package built for redhat 9...
rpm -ivh wine-20030911-1rh9winehq.i386.rpm
as root will install it for you, and then you can go to the frankscorner website (you will see a link below in my sig) and download the program called winetools as it will create the fake windows directory that is needed, and then you can run things by typeing wine program.exe
i will like to point out that it isn't always as simple as typing that above command to get things working as everything is not supported in wine, and some things require additional steps to install...you can take a look at the instructions for installing some stuff on that frankscorner site to get the jist of what i am talking about...

Ogledbyoldmen · 09-22-2003, 04:51 PM

Neat, most progress ive had yet, thanks.....but one thing.

when i try your instructions it says some kind of error on almost every file it installs. any help?

and once i get it how do i test it?

DrOzz · 09-22-2003, 04:56 PM

well lets take it one step at a time and get this thing working...so lets start by you posting the errors your getting...cause i am not sure what your talking about...whether its installing wine instelf or winetools...so just elaborate please...

Ogledbyoldmen · 09-22-2003, 07:31 PM

i knew you were going to ask that heh, sorry i was getting a tad lazy.
But heres the whole thing, take what you need i guess:

Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
package wine-20030911-1rh9winehq is already installed
file /usr/bin/wine from install of wine-20030911-1rh9winehq conflicts with file from package winex-3-1
file /usr/bin/wineclipsrv from install of wine-20030911-1rh9winehq conflicts with file from package winex-3-1
file /usr/bin/wineconsole from install of wine-20030911-1rh9winehq conflicts with file from package winex-3-1
file /usr/bin/winedbg from install of wine-20030911-1rh9winehq conflicts with file from package winex-3-1
file /usr/bin/winelauncher from install of wine-20030911-1rh9winehq conflicts with file from package winex-3-1
file /usr/bin/wineserver from install of wine-20030911-1rh9winehq conflicts with file from package winex-3-1
file /usr/bin/wineshelllink from install of wine-20030911-1rh9winehq conflicts with file from package winex-3-1
file /usr/lib/wine/libwine.so from install of wine-20030911-1rh9winehq conflicts with file from package winex-3-1
file /usr/lib/wine/libwine_unicode.so from install of wine-20030911-1rh9winehq conflicts with file from package winex-3-1
file /usr/lib/wine/libwine_uuid.a from install of wine-20030911-1rh9winehq conflicts with file from package winex-3-1
file /usr/bin/wine from install of wine-20030911-1rh9winehq conflicts with file from package wine-cvs-unstripped-20030908-1
file /usr/bin/wineclipsrv from install of wine-20030911-1rh9winehq conflicts with file from package wine-cvs-unstripped-20030908-1
file /usr/bin/winelauncher from install of wine-20030911-1rh9winehq conflicts with file from package wine-cvs-unstripped-20030908-1
file /usr/bin/wineserver from install of wine-20030911-1rh9winehq conflicts with file from package wine-cvs-unstripped-20030908-1
file /usr/bin/wineshelllink from install of wine-20030911-1rh9winehq conflicts with file from package wine-cvs-unstripped-20030908-1

alright, after this i went to wine tools, it said it made the fake drive in like home/whatever...

if you know whats wrong dont forget to include a way for me to test it.

thanks

DrOzz · 09-22-2003, 09:47 PM

ok well all i can say is you have a hell of a mess there

your trying to install the redhat 9 rpm while already having winex3.1 and the wine cvs version installed....your going to have to remove them packages you already have on there, otherwise this mess isn't going to go away, so lets start with the output of::
rpm -qa | grep -i wine

Ogledbyoldmen · 09-23-2003, 04:40 PM

Haha, yea well i guess i could try to blame my mess on the people that tried to help before, but yea all that matters is it gets fixed...so i did this in terminal:
rpm -qa | grep -i wine
winex-3-1
wine-20030911-1rh9winehq
wine-cvs-unstripped-20030908-1

thats what came up, heh, but how do i delete?

DrOzz · 09-23-2003, 08:47 PM

rpm -e packagename
so for pure example and you can be the judge in the end, but lets say you want to remove winex-3-1 and wine-cvs you can type as root ::
rpm -e winex-3-1
rpm -e wine-cvs-unstripped-20030908-1
and actually, since this is just coming to me now, also do
rpm -e wine-20030911-1rh9winehq
and remove all instances...
then start from a fresh slate, and install the one you want and give that a shot

Ogledbyoldmen · 09-24-2003, 08:43 PM

Well i take it wine is installed correctly, i went into term. and did the:
rpm -ivh wine-20030911-1rh9winehq.i386.rpm

result:
preparing...####################################(100%)
rpm already installed

So im taking it as a good thing, now i made my fake windows drive using wine tools, anything else i need to do?

and how do i test it?

DrOzz · 09-24-2003, 10:29 PM

well if you set up your fake drive correctly then you should be good to go....but remember things aren't always just as simple as wine setup.exe you should check out frankscorner in my sig to get instructions on installing some apps/games, or you can go to wines homepage and click the link to "browse application database"
and to see if it is installed you can simply type wine in the terminal without any options and you should see something like :

Code:

Usage: wine [options] [--] program_name [arguments]
The -- has to be used if you specify arguments (of the program)

Options:
   --debugmsg name  Turn debugging-messages on or off
   --dll name       Enable or disable built-in DLLs
   --dosver x.xx    DOS version to imitate (e.g. 6.22)
                    Only valid with --winver win31
   --help,-h        Show this help message
   --managed        Allow the window manager to manage created windows
   --version,-v     Display the Wine version
   --winver         Version to imitate (win95,win98,winme,nt351,nt40,win2k,winxp,win20,win30,win31)
   --dt             Defer trace until Alt+F12
   --use-dos-cwd    Used to set the DOS current working directory for the process (needs a path)
   --cmdline        Specifies the application's command line

if you see that then it is installed fine so far, then next step would be to try something simple like windows notepad or paint...and if they it/they work, then you know you set it up properly, and your all set

master · 07-11-2004, 03:47 PM

hello i have what seems to be a similar problem so what i did was open terminal log in as root and type
"rpm -qa | grep -i wine" feedback was
[master@master master]$ rpm -qa | grep -i wine
wine-20040615-1rh9winehq
so i then attempted to remove it with this command
"rpm -e wine-20040615-1rh9winehq"
it looks like this
[root@master master]# rpm -e wine-20040615-1rh9winehq

nothing happens i have the flashing cursor below as if the computer is trying to do some thing it has now been half an hour i dont know wheter to kill it or not once i get rid of my original package i can carry on following instructions as above i am allso running red hat 9 hope some 1 reads this as i know its an oldish thread i dident want to post a new 1 thanks 4 any replies