winetricks on slackware

icecubeflower · 03-09-2010, 10:36 AM

Hey on this webpage does anybody knows what he means by "DirectX 3D"?:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...sion&iId=18283

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Additional Comments

- you need to use the winetricks to install DirectX 3D and the PhysX the game will crash if you do not

Does winetricks even work with Slackware? I thought it needed Debian packages or something. I installed PhysX the normal way, I just downloaded the .exe file and ran the installer with wine. But what is DirecX 3D? Is there some way I can install whatever he is talking about without winetricks?

piratesmack · 03-09-2010, 12:37 PM

This should do it.

Code:

./winetricks d3dx9 physx

You can probably leave out the physx part since you already installed it.

winetricks should work on Slackware, as long as you have cabextract installed.

EDIT

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Originally Posted by icecubeflower

Is there some way I can install whatever he is talking about without winetricks?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

H_TeXMeX_H · 03-09-2010, 01:16 PM

I've used it before on slackware, and it works fine, no need to install anything, just run the script with the right options.

icecubeflower · 03-10-2010, 03:08 AM

How are you supposed to remove wine in order to install a new version? I always su in my /usr/local/wine-x.x.xx directory and do a "make uninstall" and then I use go to my new /usr/local/wine-x.x.xx directory and do a ./tools/wineinstall

It seems to work but I notice it always senses wine already installed for some reason.

Also does the "make uninstall" make all the winetricks installed stuff go away? I don't think winetricks has any uninstall features.

Also if I can manually install things like physx then what is the point of winetricks? I don't get it.

H_TeXMeX_H · 03-10-2010, 10:21 AM

But, winetricks installs into the .wine directory.

winetricks makes it easier (especially for directx, which is hard to find and install)