I downloaded Wine-20040615-i686-S10nodebug.tgz (for slackware). But it refuses to work. when I try wine-ing something it gives me a weird error. here's the output:

akudewan@ranjan404:~$ wine /mnt/c/WINDOWS/system32/notepad.exe
wine: creating configuration directory '/home/akudewan/.wine'...
err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"x11drv.dll": libXxf86dga.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Could not load graphics driver 'x11drv'
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\windows\\rundll32.exe" failed, status c0000142
wine: wineprefixcreate failed while creating '/home/akudewan/.wine'.
akudewan@ranjan404:~$ wineserver: could not save registry branch to /home/akudewan/.wine-pUZbCG/system.reg : No such file or directory
wineserver: could not save registry branch to /home/akudewan/.wine-pUZbCG/userdef.reg : No such file or directory
wineserver: could not save registry branch to /home/akudewan/.wine-pUZbCG/user.reg : No such file or directory

I cant make sense out of this. Can anyone help??

Edit: Also tried this version, but same problem: Wine-20040615-i686-S10.tgz

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I downloaded the wine source and installed it. Now whenever I try to wine something, there is a stupid 'Font metrics -percentage- done' thing that progresses, and in the end I get the debug prompt.

When I wine something as root, I get this error:
root@ranjan404:/mnt/c/WINDOWS/system32# wine notepad.exe
wine: creating configuration directory '/root/.wine'...
err:module:import_dll No implementation for ntdll.dll.RtlIsValidIndexHandle imported from L"Z:\\mnt\\c\\WINDOWS\\system32\\advapi32.dll", setting to 0xdeadbeef
err:module:import_dll No implementation for ntdll.dll.NtCompareTokens imported from L"Z:\\mnt\\c\\WINDOWS\\system32\\advapi32.dll", setting to 0xdeadbeef
err:module:import_dll No implementation for ntdll.dll.RtlDestroyHandleTable imported from L"Z:\\mnt\\c\\WINDOWS\\system32\\advapi32.dll", setting to 0xdeadbeef
err:module:import_dll No implementation for ntdll.dll.NtTraceEvent imported from L"Z:\\mnt\\c\\WINDOWS\\system32\\advapi32.dll", setting to 0xdeadbeef
err:module:import_dll No implementation for ntdll.dll.RtlFlushSecureMemoryCache imported from L"Z:\\mnt\\c\\WINDOWS\\system32\\advapi32.dll", setting to 0xdeadbeef
err:module:import_dll No implementation for ntdll.dll.RtlSetSecurityDescriptorRMControl imported from L"Z:\\mnt\\c\\WINDOWS\\system32\\advapi32.dll", setting to 0xdeadbeef
err:module:import_dll No implementation for ntdll.dll.RtlGetSecurityDescriptorRMControl imported from L"Z:\\mnt\\c\\WINDOWS\\system32\\advapi32.dll", setting to 0xdeadbeef
err:module:import_dll No implementation for ntdll.dll.RtlSelfRelativeToAbsoluteSD2 imported from L"Z:\\mnt\\c\\WINDOWS\\system32\\advapi32.dll", setting to 0xdeadbeef
err:module:import_dll No implementation for ntdll.dll.NtFilterToken imported from L"Z:\\mnt\\c\\WINDOWS\\system32\\advapi32.dll", setting to 0xdeadbeef
err:module:import_dll No implementation for ntdll.dll.RtlSetSecurityObjectEx imported from L"Z:\\mnt\\c\\WINDOWS\\system32\\advapi32.dll", setting to 0xdeadbeeferr:module:import_dll No implementation for ntdll.dll.RtlNewSecurityObjectWithMultipleInheritance imported from L"Z:\\mnt\\c\\WINDOWS\\system32\\advapi32.dll", setting to 0xdeadbeef
err:module:import_dll No implementation for ntdll.dll.RtlNewSecurityObjectEx imported from L"Z:\\mnt\\c\\WINDOWS\\system32\\advapi32.dll", setting to 0xdeadbeeferr:module:import_dll No implementation for ntdll.dll.RtlConvertToAutoInheritSecurityObject imported from L"Z:\\mnt\\c\\WINDOWS\\system32\\advapi32.dll", setting to 0xdeadbeef
err:module:import_dll No implementation for ntdll.dll.RtlSetControlSecurityDescriptor imported from L"Z:\\mnt\\c\\WINDOWS\\system32\\advapi32.dll", setting to 0xdeadbeef
err:module:import_dll No implementation for ntdll.dll.RtlAddAuditAccessObjectAce imported from L"Z:\\mnt\\c\\WINDOWS\\system32\\advapi32.dll", setting to 0xdeadbeef
err:module:import_dll No implementation for ntdll.dll.RtlAddAccessDeniedObjectAce imported from L"Z:\\mnt\\c\\WINDOWS\\system32\\advapi32.dll", setting to 0xdeadbeef
err:module:import_dll No implementation for ntdll.dll.RtlAddAccessAllowedObjectAce imported from L"Z:\\mnt\\c\\WINDOWS\\system32\\advapi32.dll", setting to 0xdeadbeef
err:module:import_dll No implementation for ntdll.dll.RtlAddAuditAccessAceEx imported from L"Z:\\mnt\\c\\WINDOWS\\system32\\advapi32.dll", setting to 0xdeadbeeferr:module:import_dll No implementation for ntdll.dll.NtDeleteObjectAuditAlarm imported from L"Z:\\mnt\\c\\WINDOWS\\system32\\advapi32.dll", setting to 0xdeadbeef
err:module:import_dll No implementation for ntdll.dll.NtAccessCheckByTypeResultListAndAuditAlarmByHandle imported from L"Z:\\mnt\\c\\WINDOWS\\system32\\advapi32.dll", setting to 0xdeadbeef
err:module:import_dll No implementation for ntdll.dll.NtAccessCheckByTypeResultListAndAuditAlarm imported from L"Z:\\mnt\\c\\WINDOWS\\system32\\advapi32.dll", setting to 0xdeadbeef
err:module:import_dll No implementation for ntdll.dll.NtAccessCheckByTypeAndAuditAlarm imported from L"Z:\\mnt\\c\\WINDOWS\\system32\\advapi32.dll", setting to 0xdeadbeef
err:module:import_dll No implementation for ntdll.dll.NtAccessCheckByTypeResultList imported from L"Z:\\mnt\\c\\WINDOWS\\system32\\advapi32.dll", setting to 0xdeadbeef
err:module:import_dll No implementation for ntdll.dll.NtAccessCheckByType imported from L"Z:\\mnt\\c\\WINDOWS\\system32\\advapi32.dll", setting to 0xdeadbeef
err:module:import_dll No implementation for ntdll.dll.RtlValidRelativeSecurityDescriptor imported from L"Z:\\mnt\\c\\WINDOWS\\system32\\advapi32.dll", setting to 0xdeadbeef
err:module:import_dll No implementation for ntdll.dll.NtNotifyChangeMultipleKeys imported from L"Z:\\mnt\\c\\WINDOWS\\system32\\advapi32.dll", setting to 0xdeadbeef
err:module:import_dll No implementation for ntdll.dll.NtQueryMultipleValueKey imported from L"Z:\\mnt\\c\\WINDOWS\\system32\\advapi32.dll", setting to 0xdeadbeef
err:module:import_dll No implementation for ntdll.dll.NtSaveMergedKeys imported from L"Z:\\mnt\\c\\WINDOWS\\system32\\advapi32.dll", setting to 0xdeadbeef
err:module:import_dll No implementation for ntdll.dll.NtSaveKeyEx imported from L"Z:\\mnt\\c\\WINDOWS\\system32\\advapi32.dll", setting to 0xdeadbeef
err:module:import_dll No implementation for KERNEL32.dll.CreateProcessInternalA imported from L"Z:\\mnt\\c\\WINDOWS\\system32\\advapi32.dll", setting to 0xdeadbeef
err:module:import_dll No implementation for KERNEL32.dll.CreateProcessInternalW imported from L"Z:\\mnt\\c\\WINDOWS\\system32\\advapi32.dll", setting to 0xdeadbeef
err:module:import_dll No implementation for ntdll.dll.RtlDllShutdownInProgress imported from L"Z:\\mnt\\c\\WINDOWS\\system32\\RPCRT4.dll", setting to 0xdeadbeeferr:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"Z:\\mnt\\c\\WINDOWS\\system32\\rundll32.exe" failed, status c0000142
wine: wineprefixcreate failed while creating '/root/.wine'.
root@ranjan404:/mnt/c/WINDOWS/system32# wineserver: could not save registry branch to /root/.wine-rosrXW/system.reg : No such file or directory
wineserver: could not save registry branch to /root/.wine-rosrXW/userdef.reg : No such file or directory
wineserver: could not save registry branch to /root/.wine-rosrXW/user.reg : No such file or directory

I really need Wine...else I'll have to use Windoze!!!!!!!! HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, I finally got wine working, did some google-ing and something. I really dont know what I did, but its finally working.

a) The slackpacks are broken, don't use them
b) Don't run programs from a native wIndows drive. Copy or move them into one of your Linux directories - otherwise a bunch of Windows XP native DLLs will be loaded and things blow up big time.

I myself am still getting the err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization Im running slack 9.1 kernel 2.4.23 (I of course got the right pakcage, not s10 s9 that was the first thing I checked) Ive removed and installed multiple times gone through a few irc channels and have yet to find out why I cant get wine to run correctly and I know many of the programs (cough games) have been run with no problems (such as starcraft) so Im at a loss on why I still get that error.

try "export WINEDLLOVERRIDES=msvcrt=b" in the shell before you run wine.

knives@DaRkStAr:~$ cd /mnt/cdrom
knives@DaRkStAr:/mnt/cdrom$ wine setup.exe
err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"x11drv.dll": libXxf86dga.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Could not load graphics driver 'x11drv'
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"Z:\\MNT\\CDROM\\setup.exe" failed, status c0000142
knives@DaRkStAr:/mnt/cdrom$
knives@DaRkStAr:/mnt/cdrom$

Ok more then likely I probely messed up the install of wine since that didnt work Im gonna try installing again (somehow I just have the luck of messing it up lol) thanks though Ill tell ya what happens

ok I sat down got rid of everything related to wine on my computer, redownloaded it and I follow everything in the readme exactly as it says and everything goes fine untill I get to this:
./configure
well that doesnt work (I am using slack 9.1 and the compat package) well I ignorently try make and make depend and that doesnt work (and probely shouldnt correct?) so now Im completely confused on setting it up (I have googled many pages and read quite a few howtos faqs etc and Im just not understanding apparently) so anybody think they can help out?

millionknives, what exactly is the error that u get during ./configure?