Wine?

[KeyKeeper]

Ok, all you linux users, go ahead and bash me...........hehe I cant seem to get wine up and running in RedHat enterprise Desktop v4. I googled my arse off but still cant get any ms apps installed. Mainly trying to get apexdc++ and a couple other small apps running. I have only been playing around with Linux for about a month now but am already finding myself forgetting I have xp installed on my other partition..........Any help would be great.

 

[cleverhandle]

Are the apps you're trying to use known to work with WINE? Not everything does, at least not perfectly, especially smaller apps that don't have a lot of eyeballs on them.

 

[KeyKeeper]

I dont think Im installing wine correctly. I dL the "winetools-1.30.tgz" file from sourceforge and extracted it with right clicks. Ended up with "winetools". When I click on it a menu opens and has a few options, "create fake windows drive", "Install TTF font", ect.... Im not real sure what to do from there. When I choose the "creat fake drive" it asks me for mount point and device name of my cdrom, or at least thats what I think its asking for. I dont know what to input in these fields. Also dL a few fonts "Create TTF font". I ended up with a few new files in /home. "wine -install", wine.log, "fonts" folder (empty), "dcom" folder (empty), "intall" folder (empty), and "log" folder (empty). Im using KDE if it matters.

 

[xtknight]

Maybe you should consider VMware Server (free) if you don't use 3D apps. It's a lot more reliable (it's a perfect Windows install). I only use wine when it's absolutely necessary. There are native DC++ apps for Linux as well. Have you tried winetools?

 

[KeyKeeper]

Thats what I am trying to use. Thought wine and winetools were the same thing. Forgive my ignorance, dont know much about either one of them.

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: KeyKeeper
I dont think Im installing wine correctly. I dL the "winetools-1.30.tgz" file from sourceforge and extracted it with right clicks. Ended up with "winetools". When I click on it a menu opens and has a few options, "create fake windows drive", "Install TTF font", ect.... Im not real sure what to do from there. When I choose the "creat fake drive" it asks me for mount point and device name of my cdrom, or at least thats what I think its asking for. I dont know what to input in these fields.

Find out the block device (starts with /dev) of your cdrom. Put a CD in, then type df -h in the console and see if there are any cdrom entries. Or, post the whole thing here and we can help identify which one's your cdrom. The mount point usually starts with /mnt or /media.

 

[KeyKeeper]

[derrick@localhost ~]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
98G 8.5G 85G 10% /
/dev/sda1 99M 13M 82M 14% /boot
none 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm

If I right click the cdrom icon on desktop, "devhdcmediacdrecorder"
Location: / (devices)

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: KeyKeeper
[derrick@localhost ~]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
98G 8.5G 85G 10% /
/dev/sda1 99M 13M 82M 14% /boot
none 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm

If I right click the cdrom icon on desktop, "devhdcmediacdrecorder"
Location: / (devices)

Ah, good. It's /dev/hdc (block device) and /media/cdrecorder (mount point) then it looks like. Verify that with ls (ls -al /media/cdrecorder).

 

[KeyKeeper]

[root@localhost derrick]# ls -al /media/cdrecorder
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 23 22:14 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 23 22:14 ..

/dev/hdc: Input/output error
mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
/dev/hdc: Input/output error
mount: /dev/hdc: can't read superblock
Please check that the disk is entered correctly.

I get that if I try to "calculate size" in properties of cdrom
And of course that really anoying crash of breaking glass..........hehe

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: KeyKeeper
[root@localhost derrick]# ls -al /media/cdrecorder
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 23 22:14 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 23 22:14 ..

/dev/hdc: Input/output error
mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
/dev/hdc: Input/output error
mount: /dev/hdc: can't read superblock
Please check that the disk is entered correctly.

I get that if I try to "calculate size" in properties of cdrom
And of course that really anoying crash of breaking glass..........hehe

In root, try these (just keep going even if you get errors from one but report the errors):

umount /dev/hdc
(eject your CD and put it back in again)
mount /dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder

If that doesn't work repeat the steps with another CD. If it still persists...well, let's just hope it doesn't still persist. You only have one cdrom drive right?

 

[KeyKeeper]

Yeah only one, HP DVD-RW 640.
[root@localhost derrick]# mount /dev/hdc
mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
[root@localhost derrick]# umount /dev/hdc
[root@localhost derrick]# mount /dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder
mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only


Its mounting/umounting properly with a different disk. Guess it dont like KidRock..........

Im gonna add settings to winetools and see what happens.

 

[KeyKeeper]

hmm, still not working. It tells me that it has created a fake drive in $home/.wine
still cant install anything. The app Im trying to install is an .exe on my desktop. Even if I get it installed, how do I access it?

 

[imported_LoKe]

If the app is an executable on your desktop, you should be able to right click -> open with WINE Windows Emulator

It'll open like a regular EXE does. If it doesn't, you don't have WINE properly installed. I personally hate WINETools because something about it screwed up DirectDraw.

Once it's installed, you'll need to navigate to it's directory. cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Appli\ Cation/

drive_c may not be your fake windows drive, if it isn't, ls ~/.wine and see what it lists. There should only be two folders there; dosdevices and your fake windows drive.

 

[KeyKeeper]

Well I finnaly got wine installed and was able to run apexdc++ and mcdc++ but very unstable.
http://wiki.oldos.org/Linux/WineHowTo <-- sure there was a simpler way but at least I got it installed. Winetools still dont work right though............

 

[imported_LoKe]

I thought Winetools was deprecated, anyways.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Install Wine

EDIT >> Assumes you have Fedora Extras repository enabled.