Hello all,

I am having troulbe with Wine. I went to the wine website and installed the rpm for fedora core but the rpm doesn't seem to create a config file in the ~/.wine directory.

When I use the default confi file that I copied from the website, I still can't seem to get my application to run under wine.

I am attempting to run dreamweaver 3.x and when I try to run it I get the frame for the dreamweaver splash screen but the actuall splash screen never shows up. I can tell the frame of the splash screen is there cause when I move an app that iss behind it you can clearly see where the frame is right in the middle of the screen.

Can anyone tell me how I can get this up and running or if I am missing anything?

hi
well, I've got wine up and running just fine, and what I learned is you also need to install winetools(free) or cxoffice(not free) who
makes the basic configurations.
--based in my experience, wine by itself is not enough..you'll need any of thats apps.
here's the link to the first one:
http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/
advice: read *carefuly* the recommended wine version to insall, and the winetools wersion as well
good luck!

Sounds like a plan, I wonder how come wine website doesn't mention this. There download site doesn't seem to have anything that dates before 2005 so I am going to have to google around for the recommended wine version that is suppored.

I installed wine tools and when through all the setup stuff but was not able to get an application to install. It complained that it was not able to mount my cdrom. When I have the cd in my cd room and I read it, the location shows as /medio/cdrecorder but when the setup was run for wine tools it told me that my fstab stated it was /mnt/cdrom. I tried to mount /mnt/cdrom manually using sudo mount cdrom but that didn't work at all. Is there a way I can change the location of the cdrom to be /media/cdrecorder ?

The first place I looked was the ~/.wine/config file but I didn't see anything relating to the cdrom.

I wasn't able to find a way to uninstall the source but I found that I didn't really need to. I can just navigate to my application installer on the cdrom via command line and it seems to work just as well. Unfortunately, dreamweaver is not one of the supported applications. I couldn't use the one that was recommended on the site because there didn't have an rpm for my version of fedora and they one that was there didn't work when I tried to install the rpm. I did attempt to install dreamweaver but with no luck. I get the exact same problem with the exception of I can actually see the splash screen.

Sorry about the delay, I forgot to check my mail..
well, let's go step by step.

1) did you install the winetool AND the wine versions recomended in the winetools website? (in the winetools download page is a link to old versions of wine).
So, first of all: get the recommended wine & winetools.
-now I'll suppose you've got such apps installed and working ok-

2) I know a couple of ways to try install a windows binary. first: use the command-line to go thru your path till get the cdrom; once there you should be able to see the windows installer, lets figure it name is 'install.exe'. then, in the comand-line type: wine installer.exe
that should trigger the windows installer. If everything is ok, the windows installer for your app would install it, in exactly the same way it do under a windows partition.

3) the other way to install it is thru the winetool's GUI (you call it typing "wt2" in the command-line). In the main menu, click in "install tested software" -or something similar--mine is the spanish-version of winetools.
Yes-yes..I know: your app is not listed in the tested software list, but here's the trick:
once in such list, click in the office menu to display all of it choices, and click "microsoft office 2000". When it ask if you wanna use the default, you choice 'NO', so it'll prompt you to select the file by hand in a file-system tree, and now is when you look for your cdrom, find the installer and select it. -since now, and if everithing is ok, the install process is the same than in windows.

* about your cdrom path: I cannot help you with that cause I have a different distro, so I'm not familiar with yours. If winetools complains that it can't find the cdrom, there's no problem of winetools by itself, but your distro paths (maybe winetools is searching the cdrom in a sort of 'default cdrom path', but fedora maybe use another path for the cdrom) In this case, I recomend you to ask for help in your distro forum.

** I've installed macromedia fireworks using wine, with no problem at all, so I guess you should be able to install dreamweaver as well.

hope this help you.

I did get wine tools and wine installed. It wasn't the recommended version but it was one of the supported versions. I did realize that I could navigate through the command line so that wasn't to hard. I was able to install and run several apps so that is a plus. I still however am not able to get dreamweaver to run. I tried running it under different windows OS' definitions in the config file and it just does the same thing. It just freezes at the splash screen. It could just be that since I didn't install the recommended version but a supported version that it just doesn't work with that combination. I will see if I can find the supported version in source form and then see if I get the same luck with dreamweaver.

...in the mid-time...
if you're running under a dual-boot system with windows installed in the other partition and if you have installed dw in such file-system, you can try trigger it from linux ..something like:

wine /your-path-to-windows-partition/program files/../dreamweaver.exe

In some cases, this method works just fine.

I do have a dual boot with windows partition but I am not able to have linux recognize the other partition even after following the directions that state how to get this to work. I currently am not able to boot into windows right now anyway because my grub.conf file has a problem with my windows entry (not a great loss since I wanted to move away from windows anyway). I don't believe I had dreamweaver installed on my windows partition, actually probably not much is installed on it since I only had it put on there for the intention of being use when absolutely necessary and only for a short amount of time.