Need some help with WINE please

Diss

Diss

Diss

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Hi
Am very new to Linux and have been looking at WINE. I run Ubuntu and have installed 0.9.4 from the package manager. I have also installed winetools.

A couple of questions to start with.

1) A very basic question first - do i need to install WINXP on my Linux drive using Wine? It doesn't seem to say anything about having to do this on WineHQ but when i run Winetools half the things (even in Base setup) don't seem to work.

2) Any sites that describe how to usw Wine in 'detail' for people new to Linux - WineHQ seems fine if you know Linux well, which i don't.

yours confusedly

Diss
 
thanks Pajeh

done that - the windows installer starts (trying to install a game from a CD) but then locks up after about 5 seconds and there are some error messages (not in Linux at moment - let me know if you want to know exactly what they were).

when i was playing with winetools it mentioned something about the installller locking up and i think it was either to do with fonts or IE6

gonna reboot now into Linux and have another go and report back

cheers

Diss


Hmmm - thinking about it some more - is the idea with Wine that you run a game from a Windows partition OR that you install the win prog in the Linux partition and run it form there?
 
These were some instructions i was following from a forum post - i never did understand what 3. was about and those things mentioned didn't install using Winetools.

Here is what you need to do:
1. Install the latest WINE software from www.winehq.org. There are binary packages for most distributions.
2. Use winecfg to configure your drivers.
3. Use winetools to set up a fake Windows environment. You must install DCOM, IE6SP2, Windows Installer etc. Otherwise InstallShield will stall.
If your X11 setup includes the MS Core TrueType fonts, there is no need to install them again with winetools.
4. Mount the HOI2 CD (eg. /media/cdrom0) and execute the installer:
$ mount /media/cdrom0
$ wine /media/cdrom0/Setup.exe


Diss
 
I installed the fonts but still have the same problem - I get 2 blue squares on the installer and then it stops:

wine /media/cdrom0/Setup.exe
fixme: ole: ITypeInfo_fnRelease destroy child objects
fixme: ole: ITypeInfo_fnRelease destroy child objects
*********[I deleted loads of similar lines]***********
err: ole:marshal_object object doesn't expose interface {be6115a1-7de5-48dc-ad2a- 25060e00fce2}, failing with error 0x80004002
err: ole: ClientIdentity_QueryMultipleInterfaces IRemUnknown_RemQueryInterface fai led with error 0x80004002
err: ole: marshal_object object doesn't expose interface {be6115a1-7de5-48dc-ad2a- 25060e00fce2}, failing with error 0x80004002
err: ole: ClientIdentity_QueryMultipleInterfaces IRemUnknown_RemQueryInterface fai led with error 0x80004002

Any suggestions? Are there things i should have done in Winecfg first?

thanks

Diss
 
ahhh thanks - its installed now

Problem is - how do i start the game? Where is it installed? I have browseda around but can't find what i assume is a virtual 'C' drive??????

thanks
 
ok - found the dir you mentioned (it is a hidden dir) but there is nothing in there to do with the prog i installed (Hearts of Iron 2)

i know its installed as it loaded automatically after the initial install

as much as i want to use Linux its the inability of it to let users do simple things that is really frsutrating grrrrrrrrrrrr

right - i have calmed down :)

any other suggested locations?

many thanks

Diss
 
found it in \root

i loaded wincfg and it was on the application tab - not sure what that tab is for as it seems to lose the info after i load it and it doesn't run the program

however when i navigate to the hoi2.exe file and right click and choose "open with Wine windows emulator" i get a "Critical error Excel file not found" - whats that all about?

any ideas what i am doing wrong?

thanks

Diss
 
also, as a general point
if i am here:
root@ubuntu:~/.wine/drive_c # ls
Program Files windows

how do i change into the Program Files directory?
(i usually copy the file name in Properties but it was too long and not all displayed)
(I thought i'd try and run it from a terminal)

thanks

Diss
 
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OK - it now runs - thats brilliant thanks :D

Still have a few probs though:

1) No sound

2) when i quit the program doesn't exit properly and there is still something there in the bottom bar

3) How do i set up a short cut on my desktop to run it (why wouldn't it run form the file browser - could it be because i installed it to root?)

thanks again

Diss
 
thanks
I get this error message re the sound:
fixme:midi:OSS_MidiInit Synthesizer support MIDI in. Not supported yet (please r eport)
fixme:jack:JACK_drvLoad error loading the jack library libjack.so, please instal l this library to use jack

how do i sort this


will look at the other itmes tomorrow

thanks for all the help - much appreciated

Diss
 
eatmuchpie - thanks, but gonna stick with Wine for now as it runs the game well - also have heard its very difficult to ger cedega to work from source

all -:
1) Still no sound. I looked at the audio tab in winecfg and ticked all 3 oprions and driver emulation. Could it be to do with the fact that the game is installed as root? Any other thoughts?

2) How do i uninstall the game? (So i can reinstall it not as root). There is no uninstall prog in the game directory.

3) This - try "killall wineserver wine-preloader" at a terminal and see if the thing disappears - didn't work, it said no wine processess running - maybe its a game process - is there anywhere i can look to find out whats running and then kill it?

Thanks
Diss

PS please hang in with me a bit as when i have this all sorted i need to try and insytall a couple of patches but want to try it first and see how i get on
 
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