odd problem with installing wine

Teckno · 06-13-2004, 04:41 PM

I downloaded Wine-20040408-i686-S9.tgz off winehq.com and extracted it. the readme says to eather do ./tools/wineinstall or ./configure, make, make install. however nether of these work,, all I got was two directorys (install and usr) and a tar file called Wine-20040408-i686-S9nodebug.tar. I tried doinstall.sh from the install directory but all I got was a bunch of "no such file or directery" error.

Whats worng??

320mb · 06-13-2004, 04:49 PM

try this
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Code:

installpkg whatever.tgz

Teckno · 06-13-2004, 05:56 PM

ok, this is what I got:

Code:

bash-2.05b# installpkg '/home/sam/Wine-20040408-i686-S9.tgz'
Installing package Wine-20040408-i686-S9...
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
Wine: Wine (Client, server, and winelib)
Wine:
Wine: Wine Is Not an Emulator, it is an alternative implementation of the
Wine: Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs. Wine provides both a development toolkit
Wine: (Winelib) for porting legacy Windows sources to Unix and a program
Wine: loader, allowing unmodified Windows 3.1/95/NT binaries to run under
Wine: Intel Unixes. Please, PLEASE read the README or else Wine probably
Wine: won't work for you.
Wine:
Executing install script for Wine-20040408-i686-S9...

bash-2.05b#

but I still dont hane a ~/.wine directory

what do I do now?

Shade · 06-13-2004, 08:09 PM

You need to create it

Follow the readme from here on out, buddy.
There are tools to do this available online, linked from the winehq page.

--Shade

Teckno · 06-13-2004, 11:23 PM

you know, just saying to type 'wineprefixcreate' would have saved me from serching the whole winehq

but thanks for pointing me in the right direction

Shade · 06-14-2004, 12:16 AM

Who says I knew to do that?

Or that I use wine at all, for that matter...

I'm just trying to impart what should become common sense to any linux user... RTFM :-D

--Shade

Teckno · 06-14-2004, 04:35 PM

sorry it sounded like you went though this.
plus it really late, the caffine content in my blood was getting low
im really sorry about my last post, your info really helped me.