[newbie] Wine setup
Hi I've been through the howto on wiki but I'm still having difficulties I copyed the required dlls from my XP installation and used the latest version of wine from where the artical recommended. I managed to install Kazaa (some of the fonts were a bit funny) but it would just gointo debug mode when I tried to run it I then tried copying all my dll files over into wine but that had even more dire consquences ie kazaa wouldn't even install So to the people who have wine working: What dlls did you use. Which folers did you put them in (system or system32) and what did you pop into your wine configuration file? Also is it recomened to use winex from transgaming for games? Or is there an alternative? Thanks Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wine setup
Hi Mike, In general, I've not found any issues as such between Mandrake Linux and Wine. I have Wine working on Mandrake 8.1 and 9.1 systems. In both cases, the applications I use Wine for were installed on a Win98SE partition before Linux was installed on the box. I'm using the default setup with only Wine dlls (builtin) for mswindows. The applications, of course, use their own (native) dlls. I haven't booted up mswindows for ages and do everything that I need with those programs via Wine under Linux. I do have a rule of thumb for dealing with all things Linux, however. I check first to make sure that something really isn't working before I start scouring How Tos to fix it. My experience with Linux is that it's easy to wrongly conclude something isn't working, and fixing something that isn't broken can lead to big headaches. There are two separate issues with Wine: Is your Wine installation okay? And, what are the particular needs of each application you want to run under it? Wine doesn't run everything. I believe it will run Kazaa. although I personally haven't tried running Kazaa. I'm using an old CodeWeavers Wine (April 2002) on the Mandrake 8.1 system and, on the Mandrake 9.1 system, I'm using the August 2003 Wine compiled on Mandrake 9.1 and available on the Winehq Italia site at http://digilander.libero.it/winehqitalia/ -- both were RPMs and installed easily. CodeWeavers comes with winesetuptk. The Winehq Italia site has a winesetuptk that you can download. I used that to setup Wine and produce the original config and folders. Once done, I then modified anything that didn't work well for me. Also, on the Mandrake 9.1 CDs, there's a graphical frontend that I've found useful for setting up individual mswindows applications. It's called XWine (not the same as WineX, the Wine for gamers). There's an updated version at http://darken.tuxfamily.org -- the site's in French, but click the flag to go to English. On your fake_windows directory, everything should be set up just the same as it would have been using an actual mswindows release. So if the dll goes in c:/windows/system in mswindows, then it would go in ~/.wine/fake_windows/windows/system under Wine. There's a mailing list for Wine users at http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users and an active newsgroup that can be read using your browser via Google. Sorry for the length of the post. I know that people can find Wine confusing. deedee On Sun Sep 7 11:46:11 2003 Michael Lothian wrote: I've been through the howto on wiki but I'm still having difficulties I copyed the required dlls from my XP installation and used the latest version of wine from where the artical recommended. I managed to install Kazaa (some of the fonts were a bit funny) but it would just gointo debug mode when I tried to run it I then tried copying all my dll files over into wine but that had even more dire consquences ie kazaa wouldn't even install So to the people who have wine working: What dlls did you use. Which folers did you put them in (system or system32) and what did you pop into your wine configuration file? Also is it recomened to use winex from transgaming for games? Or is there an alternative? Thanks Mike -- Visit WordStar GNU/Linux http://www.wordstar2.com Join us: E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add the message to the body subscribe wordstar2 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wine setup
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 15:37, deedee wrote: Hi Mike, In general, I've not found any issues as such between Mandrake Linux and Wine. I have Wine working on Mandrake 8.1 and 9.1 systems. In both cases, the applications I use Wine for were installed on a Win98SE partition before Linux was installed on the box. I'm using the default setup with only Wine dlls (builtin) for mswindows. The applications, of course, use their own (native) dlls. I haven't booted up mswindows for ages and do everything that I need with those programs via Wine under Linux. I do have a rule of thumb for dealing with all things Linux, however. I check first to make sure that something really isn't working before I start scouring How Tos to fix it. My experience with Linux is that it's easy to wrongly conclude something isn't working, and fixing something that isn't broken can lead to big headaches. There are two separate issues with Wine: Is your Wine installation okay? And, what are the particular needs of each application you want to run under it? Wine doesn't run everything. I believe it will run Kazaa. although I personally haven't tried running Kazaa. I'm using an old CodeWeavers Wine (April 2002) on the Mandrake 8.1 system and, on the Mandrake 9.1 system, I'm using the August 2003 Wine compiled on Mandrake 9.1 and available on the Winehq Italia site at http://digilander.libero.it/winehqitalia/ -- both were RPMs and installed easily. CodeWeavers comes with winesetuptk. The Winehq Italia site has a winesetuptk that you can download. I used that to setup Wine and produce the original config and folders. Once done, I then modified anything that didn't work well for me. Also, on the Mandrake 9.1 CDs, there's a graphical frontend that I've found useful for setting up individual mswindows applications. It's called XWine (not the same as WineX, the Wine for gamers). There's an updated version at http://darken.tuxfamily.org -- the site's in French, but click the flag to go to English. On your fake_windows directory, everything should be set up just the same as it would have been using an actual mswindows release. So if the dll goes in c:/windows/system in mswindows, then it would go in ~/.wine/fake_windows/windows/system under Wine. There's a mailing list for Wine users at http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users and an active newsgroup that can be read using your browser via Google. Sorry for the length of the post. I know that people can find Wine confusing. deedee On Sun Sep 7 11:46:11 2003 Michael Lothian wrote: I've been through the howto on wiki but I'm still having difficulties I copyed the required dlls from my XP installation and used the latest version of wine from where the artical recommended. I managed to install Kazaa (some of the fonts were a bit funny) but it would just gointo debug mode when I tried to run it I then tried copying all my dll files over into wine but that had even more dire consquences ie kazaa wouldn't even install So to the people who have wine working: What dlls did you use. Which folers did you put them in (system or system32) and what did you pop into your wine configuration file? Also is it recomened to use winex from transgaming for games? Or is there an alternative? Thanks Mike Excellent explanation. Thank you. Par hazard I've found a tutorial here. http://www.merlinux.org/merfaq/kazaalite2.1_english.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
