I am having trouble installing wine on my openSUSE 11-gnome
laptop. I have tried installing from OpenSUSE 10.3 DVD installer, and it says it installs correctly, however I cant
find it anywhere, and when I downloaded the rpm and ran it, I said "ERROR, sub process failed.... Wine 1.0.2(cant remember the exact version)is all ready installed."
Running an exe does nothing, and i poked around the wine folder which i have no idea where i got it from, and found some thing called "Wineinstaller" so I double clicked and nothing happened, I opened system monitor and and there was a process called "wine installer" taking up usually half of my CPU. I waited an hour and nothing happened.
I cannot download on my laptop with Linux, so dont tell me to use yast and open community repositories blah blah.
I would like to install a VM if wine doesnt work, and also does anyone know where any guides to dual booting linux with
XP while keeping linux?
Thanks!

If you dont mind spending 39$ to buy a copy of CrossOver Office,that is
a commercial version of Wine that I have had good luck with.What I would do is remove wine and then reinstall everything.If you want to set up
a dual boot with XP heres a guide
http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux...w2k-HOWTO.html

If you want to set up a virtual machine heres one that is good

http://www.virtualbox.org/



Hope that helps

John

Thanks John but as for the guide you gave a link for, I allready have OPENSUSE 11 installed so that guide wont work for me.
Virtualbox looks great but where you choose the version for your OS, OpenSUSE 11 isnt supported. Would the OpenSUSE 10.3 version work?
I have installed programs meant for 10.3 but only half of them work.
(one of the programs that doesnt work is from the OpenSUSE 10.3 DVD disc.

Ah, it is easier than that man. Go to your yast then login with your password. Next go to software management. Just type virtualbox in the "filters" section.

You want to install the top one that says "VirtualBox OSE". I have been running it a while and wow, I am amazed at the speed with a core2 duo and giving Windows XP maybe 512mb-1gb of ram, the speed is really nice.

Reefcrazed, you musnt of read my first post in this thread properly, as i said that i have no internet access on my laptop running linux. That means zero, nada, zip, zilch however you take it. thanks for trying though.

I had to read it twice to catch it, but I read fast, I am a skimmer.

Thats a tough one,Why can't you get internet on that Laptop?. When you installed OpenSUSE did you partition the whole drive? If you didn't then you could install Windows from that. If you did then you could go a get something called gparted and resize the partition(I have never done this and therefore can't say that nothing bad will happen*BACKUPS,BACKUPS,BACKUPS* Since I don't use OpenSUSE I don't know but I think that either gparted or partition magic comes standard on
OPENSUSE. Theres one problem with that though I can't remember if Windows XP won't mess up your current installation of OpenSUSE(bootloader). If it comes down to it I would back up my stuff and install windows xp and leave space on the drive for OpenSUse


Hope that Helps

Yeah but the OP said he specifically did not want to dual boot. Can you not hook up the internet temporarily just to get Virtual Box installed ? Took me less than 5 minutes.

What happens when you just type:

wine

That should start 'wine' and it should complain that you're not asking it to run anything and offer you the option to configure wine.

In ubuntu 8.10 it took me about 3 minutes to install Virtual Box with DSL Internet.If you can't get it to work then go and buy a copy of
crossover. By the way ,what was you trying to install with Wine, also I would go and get the most stable version from WineHQ.