hi all its ur old friend synthetic blue w/ a new name. ok i did alot of reading and now i finally got my system the way i want it. but i wannna install wine and when i try it gives me a error message saying the file is corrupt and ive redownloaded it serveral times. i got the wine from source forge and i tried to use the installpkg utility well heres what happened:
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root@Synth:~/Desktop# installpkg Wine-20030508-i686-S9.tgz
Cannot install Wine-20030508-i686-S9.tgz: package is corrupt (failed 'gzip -l Wine-20030508-i686-S9.tgz')
root@Synth:~/Desktop#
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any ideas??? any help would be really useful
Synth

erm.. download it again / from somewhere else.... seems pretty obvious i'd have thought. if it says it's a corrupt file, i'd believe it.

alright there arn't any more links from winehq that have the right file other than sourceforge. well i'll download it again using netscape instead of konqueror and see what happens. but in the mean time i got another question i want to put icons on my desktop that take u straight to the contents of a cd and a floppy one icon that takes u to the cd and one that takes u to a floppy. the reason i want to do this is cause im a total newbie and i put a cd full of mp3's in but when i open a player and i tel i to go to dev/cdrom it dosn't do anything like it wont play. so i want to make a link tha takes me staright to the contents of whatever is on the medium so i can run it from there. how would i do that?

no idea, that's a window manager issue, and you've not said which one you are using.

using kde, and between redownloading didn't work sitll says file corrupt i'll do a lil reaserach and see if there any other places i can get it that arn't listed on the winehq.com site

Download from the following site:
www.linuxpackages.net

This site should be your first site to check if you're a slack user. Hope this helps.